On Obamacare, as on immigration enforcement and welfare requirements, Barack Obama is following the course that cost King James II his throne. He is dispensing with the law.

After sending a task force to take a deeper look at Florida's grading formula, Commissioner Tony Bennett has recommended last-minute changes to the formula to calculate school grades, which are slated to be released sometime this month. Superintendents from Hillsborough and Miami-Dade counties had urged the Board of Education to reassess the grading formula in June after expressing concerns that many of the schools' grades in their districts would plummet with higher standards.

If there are any doubts that former Gov. Charlie Crist intends to run for governor in 2014, the announcement this week that he is releasing a book -- "The Party's Over: How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat" -- should end them.

That the prosecution in the Zimmerman trial asked the judge to allow a verdict of "third-degree murder" -- i.e., child abuse, since Trayvon Martin was 17 -- testifies to the prosecution's failure and panic.