Veteran newsman and Fox News contributor weighs in as Hurricane Irma churns toward Florida

When the candidates weren’t sounding angry at the world, they started up on each other with catfights - which at times made me uncomfortable.  

We need more Fernandez’s, because he’s a thought leader in our business sector who is willing to take on the menace of hate and demagoguery that is afflicting our politics.

While Americans in 1989 were willing to begin to put away their fears, Americans today seem to approach all matters relating to our dealings in the middle east with an immovable foundation of dread.  

There is a generational divide that tens of thousands of us in South Florida can relate to. We have been raised with antipathy toward the Cuban regime. But we’ve also been raised with the expectation that anti-Castro antipathy would lead to some type of change—something better or at least different.

"For 53 years, I have wondered if this day would ever come. And now that is has I can’t help think of my mom and dad," writes Cuban-American Rick Sanchez.

It is not a good day for the police profession even among those who are usually in the law and order camp.

All the experts agree after watching the videotape that it’s wrong to violate police regulations by using a choke hold on a suspect.

When headlines around the world screamed of 90-year-old Arnold Abbott’s “arrest” by Fort Lauderdale police for feeding the homeless, Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler became a universally accepted target overnight.

Earlier this month, local police in the town of Iguala ambushed 43 students who were planning a protest against the very system that brought about their deaths and disappearance.