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MACDONALD: Taxdollars and Viewpoint Discrimination

July 9, 2026 Steve MacDonald

More great news out of Florida, and it lands close to our snarky little hearts. “State agencies in Florida are barred … from hiring advertising firms that use ‘misinformation’ ratings to decide which news outlets deserve ad dollars and which don’t.” Remember NewsGuard? Outfits like NewsGuard, Ad Fontes Media, and the Global Disinformation Index built … Read more

KLAR: Florida Warns of Arsenic in Popular Candies

February 21, 2026 John Klar

Note: The featured image is just a royalty-free image of a box of candy and in no way represents the context of the title or any claim by Florida or anyone else. A Florida report on 46 popular candy products found unacceptable levels of arsenic in 28 of them. The state has taken the Make … Read more

KLAR: Florida Bill Seeks to Expand Vaccine Exemptions

February 13, 2026 John Klar

Conscience vs science? A post-pandemic tension between public safety and individual liberties has infused Florida’s ongoing effort to balance vaccine mandates and parental choice. A pending bill would broaden the state’s current religious exemption to include allowances for “conscience.” Opponents, however, fear the expansion will expose unvaccinated children to disease risks. Florida’s Exemption Battle In … Read more

Adams: DeSantis Urges Congress to Defund Sanctuary States That License Illegal Aliens as Drivers

August 28, 2025 Jacob Adams

lorida Gov. Ron DeSantis is calling on Congress to defund sanctuary states that provide illegal immigrants with driver’s licenses.

Forget The Cheese, Check Out This Sunshine

April 2, 2025 Steve MacDonald

The Handmaiden media pulled some sleight of hand this morning. They made you look at Wisconsin as the bellwether for the 2026 midterms, but not Florida. The cheese heads did something remarkable. Backed by millions from progressive oligarchs like George Soros, JB Pritzker, and Reid Hoffman, they defended a State Supreme Court seat they already … Read more

Fake “Meat” Ban Survives Court Challenge

November 28, 2024 Steve MacDonald

We’re not fans of fake meat. It isn’t better for the environment, and it isn’t better for you. But we won’t tell you not to buy or eat it. We will tell you that you are being fed lies, but knock yourself out if you don’t care or are comfortable with the fantasy. Eating fake meat is … Read more

Should Pam Bondi Get A Pass?

November 25, 2024 Ian Underwood

So, Pam Bondi is Trump’s new nominee for Attorney General of the United States. Advocates for RKBA point out that she defended Red Flag laws while she was Attorney General of Florida. Others defend her by saying that, as Attorney General, it was her job to defend the laws of the state, regardless of her … Read more

Fact: Climate Change Isn’t Making All Hurricanes Disappear

October 14, 2024October 14, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Kirk is adrift, Leslie is lost, and Invest 97L is a hair west of Cape Verde and likely to follow them around the central Atlantic. Milton burned out fast after a CAT 3 landing (Sorry, climateers – no Cat 6 superstorm), making a mess, but that’s what hurricanes do, and a lot less often than … Read more

As Milton Stalks Florida – A Look at Some FLA Hurricane History

October 8, 2024October 8, 2024 Steve MacDonald

The prolonged drought of landfall hurricanes during the global warming era has been a sore spot for the Climate Chicken(s) Little. Regular readers know this and have come here regularly to reload their narrative blow torches for battles in the multi-platformed, not always social internet media universe. A search for Hurricane produces nearly 300 results. … Read more

Social Media Used to Get Govt. To Take Children from Christian Family

August 2, 2024August 2, 2024 Aaron Warner

As if social media wasn’t toxic enough, it has now been weaponized by a Reddit group to target “fundamentalist Christians” explicitly. The group @FundieSnarkUncensored lists as its primary purpose: “This is a snark sub for fundamentalist Christians – keep it fundie & keep it snarky. While we welcome snarkers from all different backgrounds, the people … Read more

Florida Bans Manufacture and Sale of Lab-Grown Meat

May 3, 2024 Steve MacDonald

No compilation of urban legends would be complete without mentioning cafeteria-style mystery meat. It is shaped like meat, colored (and cooked) like meat, but would it stand up to even casual scrutiny? Stories about schools saving money by cheating out on food were spurious at best. Schools don’t try to save money.

Things You Will Never Hear Sun-King Chris Sununu Say …

May 1, 2024 Ed Mosca

Here is Florida Governor Ron DeSantis telling the Biden-Regime to pound sand in response to the Regime’s redefining Title 9 … which is supposed to protect girls and women … to accommodate men and boys who identify as girls and women: FLORIDA WILL NOT COMPLY.

Florida Grand Jury Finds COVID Response Likely Did More Harm than Good

February 10, 2024 Steve MacDonald

If you’d forgotten, the State of Florida impaneled a Grand Jury to determine “whether pharmaceutical companies and other medical organizations engaged in criminal activity or wrongdoing’ in their participation in the rollout of COVID-19 “vaccines.” They’ve released their first interim report.

So, You Were Saying That Trans and Queer People Sexually Assault Children?

January 31, 2024 Auntie Vaquser

From the “pay no attention to the transman behind the curtain” file, we have this massive self-own from an individual who was concerned about a law in Florida that would allow the death penalty for those who sexually abuse children.

DeSantis And Florida Took the Janus Decision to Its Next Logical Step

January 5, 2024January 4, 2024 Steve MacDonald

Teacher’s Unions are sinister private entities whose only concern is how much money they can make and how best to use that to impact politics at every level of government. Sure, Janus v. AFSCME was a great decision, but the war against public employee unions continues, and Ron DeSantis is leading that fight.

School Choice: Florida Leads the Way

December 14, 2023 Ian Underwood

I just read (in Reason) that about half of Florida students are participating in some kind of school choice program. So I thought: Wow, things must be looking up in Florida, right? Academic achievement must be soaring because of all that freebie market competition.

High School Plays FAFO with Florida’s Protections for Biological Girls’ Sports Teams … Gets Fined $16K+

December 15, 2023December 14, 2023 Auntie Vaquser

If you were wondering how serious Florida was about protecting girls’ and women’s sports, this might be your answer. Monarch High School has been put on Administrative probation and fined 16,500.00 for allowing a boy to play on a girl’s volleyball team.

About That 100+ Degree “Ocean” Water in Florida …

August 4, 2023 Steve MacDonald

Did you hear about that time when the press reported Atlantic Ocean temperatures over one-hundred degrees? It was this week. The South Florida,hot tub analogy is accurate (sort of), but not the way the media sold it. The ocean bouy was in salt water, but inland, inside the barrier reef, in shallow water, at low tide.

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Banning AP Courses? As If.

August 4, 2023 Ian Underwood

Florida may have banned its public schools from teaching the AP Psychology course. That is, it may or may not be true that the course contains material that is prohibited by a recent law from inclusion in public school curricula. But this rather misses the point, I think. Or rather, a couple of important points. … Read more

If Gas Is Bad In Appliances Why Is Kamala’s Gaslighting Good?

August 3, 2023 Op-Ed

Vice President Kamala Harris attacked Ron DeSantis over the African-American history curriculum in Florida, claiming that state officials want to “gaslight” students by teaching fallacies and that “… enslaved people benefited from slavery.”