OK, let’s start with a bit of media law: It is almost impossible to libel a public official, thanks to the protection of the First Amendment and Times v. Sullivan. Anyone who wants to win such a lawsuit not only has to prove he/she was defamed but that it was done with actual malice or [...]...

Will the stimulus package really create 21st Century jobs and transform our economy?...

The Kindle e-reader app for iPhones gets good reviews and could become 'the iTunes for news' if Amazon keeps selling magazines into it....

Not content with hearing our Political Whore podcast? Here's a video clip from the taping session....

OK, file this in the good-to-know category: Calling 911 three times because you can’t get your Chicken McNuggets is AGAINST THE LAW! Of course, a Fort Pierce dumbass didn’t know that. She was so insistent on getting a refund after she was told the mattress-consistency faux chicken produc...

This week: WMNF's Mitch Perry and Democratic consultant Ana Cruz join PoHo to dissect three top issues from the headlines....

HuffPo reports: During his much-discussed keynote address at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday, Rush Limbaugh accused Barack Obama of pursuing the “bastardization of the U.S. Constitution.” It was one of the more politically acidic notes in a speech defined by ramb...

Holy crap, just when you thought the Buddy Johnson saga couldn’t get any worse, Jeff Testerman over at the Times’ Tampa office digs up a new low: Johnson hired an ex-con as special assistant to the woman who was responsible his office’s budget. A man convicted of arson, cocaine pos...

DGI = Damned Good Ideas. And that is exactly what Alan Snel, a cycling advocate and blogger, have put before the Tampa-Hillsborough Expressway Authority. From this morning’s St. Petersburg Times: The Tampa-Hillsborough Expressway Authority Board will hear a staff report this afternoon on the f...

Are we witnessing the birth of a new Lou Dobbs, or is the viral emergence of Rick Santelli on the mortgage assistance plan just the upper-class twits pissed at the lower-class dummies?...