Gov. Rick Scott will be speaking at Florida Right to Life's annual Pro-Life Awards dinner in Orlando come the middle of October.

Former state Rep. Rachel Burgin, the executive director of Florida Right to Life, announced on Monday that Scott will receive the 2013 Pro-Life Champion Award for protecting innocent human life from conception to natural death.

With a federal government shutdown looking increasingly likely at midnight, Gov. Rick Scott ripped into President Barack Obama on Monday.

As expected, the Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate rejected a proposal from the GOP-run U.S. House to pass a continuing resolution for the federal government while delaying the federal health-care law backed by President Barack Obama a year ago. U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., weighed in on Monday afternoon and blamed the law for the looming federal shutdown.

Sunshine State News is hitting the radio airwaves on Monday from 3:20-4 p.m. Your humble blogger will be on the Ed Dean radio show, which is hosted by one of the most feisty, informative and entertaining conservatives in Florida. It can be heard onlinehereand on two stations in Central Florida -- 89.3 on the west coast and 90.3 on the Atlantic coast.

With the federal government facing a shutdown later on Monday, former U.S. Rep. Allen West had a simple message for Congress: Do your job.

Shutting down the government is the most unpatriotic thing Congress could do, West wrote supporters on Monday. We elected the 535 men and women who serve in the House and Senate to do a job and that job does not include such extreme partisan bickering that they become incapable of rectifying their differences to keep the government running.

With a federal government shutdown looming at the end of Monday, a new poll from Rasmussen Reports finds Americans are growing less comfortable with the idea.

Former Gov. Luis Fortu of Puerto Rico announced on Monday he was supporting Bob Cortes for the Republican nomination to challenge Rep. Karen Castor Dentel, D-Maitland.

All of Central Florida, and especially the Puerto Rican community, will benefit from the leadership of Bob Cortes, said Fortu. We can count on Bob to work for more jobs and better schools, but more importantly, we can count on him to be a leader who tells the truth and puts people first.

The war over Tim Tebow continues on the First Coast.

Despite the returns of Blaine Gabbert as QB and Marcades Lewis at tight end from injuries (though Lewis was reinjured) on Sunday, the Jacksonville Jaguars continue to struggle. The Jaguars, clearly the worst team in the National Football League (NFL), were blown out at home by the Indianapolis Colts, losing 37-3 on Sunday.

Jacksonvilles congresswoman and congressman -- Democrat Corrine Brown and Republican Ander Crenshaw -- split on party lines over continuing resolutions to fund the government and efforts to delay President Barack Obamas health care law by a year. Unless the Democratic Senate and the Republican House reach an agreement by the end of Monday, the federal government will be experiencing a shutdown.

Former U.S. Rep. Allen West was in Louisiana over the weekend for a fundraiser for Louisiana state Sen. Elbert Guillory who recently jumped over to the GOP after first being elected as a Democrat. West took to Facebook on Monday to offer his thoughts on the looming federal shutdown and he pointed to a sermon he heard on Sunday covering the Acts of the Apostles which Washington could draw inspiration from.