South Florida Law Blog

Remember when “Corporations are people, my friend!” was the strangest thing to come out of Mitt Romney’s mouth? It speaks volumes about the problems with our political process that it took a speech we were never intended to hear to allow us to hear a politician speaking honestly and off-the-cuff. Now I am not in the business of endorsing any […]

Once, just once, I wish politicians would leave the prose and symbolism to the fiction writers. Not that I was expecting any different, but as I watched Mitt Romney accept the Republican nomination, I heard bold talk and big promises. It is a narrative, plain and simple, an entertaining one perhaps, but one that I fear will do little to […]

  The Republican and Democratic conventions are almost upon us, and the housing crisis has finally been inserted into the presidential election. Maybe the President and his Republican rival see homeowners as nothing more than another campaign issue to be exploited, or maybe they are finally starting to understand how central the need to tackle the foreclosure problem is to […]