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...election, Nader asserted that only a hairline of difference separated George W. Bush and Al Gore. In Florida, he siphoned 97,488 votes, likely from Al Gore, handing Bush a margin of victory of 531 votes. After two terms under Bush, few would dispute that a world in which Nobel Peace Prize winner Gore were president would come much closer to Nader’s vision of the world than...
...original version of this article stated that Daniel Mears is a professor of criminology at the University of Florida. In fact, Daniel Mears is a professor of criminology at Florida State University...
...with a green card or U.S. citizenship have already jumped through several legal hoops to live and work in the U.S., including a background check into any prior criminal record back home. "Legal immigrants are by definition unusually law-abiding," Rasmusen wrote last June. But Professor Daniel Mears, a Florida State University criminologist, argues that such reasoning can also be turned on its head. "If someone is here illegally," Mears asks, "why would they call attention to themselves by committing a crime...
...small, isolated fire in an electrical substation on Miami's western fringe. A breaker shut down the facility, as it's programmed to do; but it failed to contain the problem, as it also should have, and so in response more than a dozen other substations in South Florida's electrical grid shut down as well. That caused a cascading regional grid collapse - including the Turkey Point nuclear power plant south of Miami - as electricity demand suddenly outstripped what was being produced. Some 3 million people from South Beach to Tampa to Daytona Beach lost power. No one was hurt...
...worried about being a spoiler? Now wait a minute, that is a politically bigoted word. The two parties have spoiled this country. They have spoiled the electoral process; I mean, look at Florida, look at Ohio. They have spoiled the political process, made it very difficult for candidates who can't raise the cash to move in and sustain themselves. They have spoiled our government. They're the spoilers...