Being invited to write a column opposing a tax break for spouses of veterans and first responders (our EMTs, firefighters, etc.) killed in the line of duty is like being asked to throw torpedoes at some of our community's most beloved heroes.

The Florida State Lodge, Fraternal Order of Police leads the state Law Enforcement Officer Memorial each year to remember and honor the sacrifice of those officers who have fallen in the line of duty.

Like a black hole sucking the light from the heavens, the general election now less than four weeks away appears to be preventing anything from escaping its grasp as the pace quickens and the money flows.

While U.S. vice presidential candidates held their table-top battle, voter registration ended this week in Florida, though final numbers won't be known for a bit.

DALLAS -- If in four weeks a president-elect Mitt Romney is seeking a Treasury secretary, he should look here, to Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

Zero. Nil. Nada.

As the first President Bush was often characterized on "Saturday Night Live": Aint gonna happen.

A request for the state GOPs executive committee to change its mind on the fate of three Supreme Court justices by three members of the Florida Senate -- two who will no longer be in office after November -- has zero chance of success.