Fragging: "To intentionally kill or wound (one's superior officer, etc.), esp. with a hand grenade."

Pushed by the progressive left, Fair Districts' reforms collided with minority interests at the state's redistricting road show in Central Florida.

Lawmakers were caught in the middle in Orlando last week when Hispanics and African-Americans demanded that the Legislature carve out legislative and congressional districts for them.

Emilio Perez, chairman of the Central Florida Redistricting Council, told legislators that failure to draw a Hispanic-heavy congressional district would "be like penalizing us for the growth that landed this state two new congressional districts."

Thanks to Tea Party fanatics, we are told, America just lost a historic opportunity to deal with her national debt.

The state veterans agency on Thursday said it is open to changes in a list of veterans proposed as inductees for a new state Hall of Fame after an African-American state senator complained it was overly white and called on Gov. Rick Scott to reject it.

The list, which is made up only of former governors, includes six who served in the Confederate military and one convicted of and jailed for "intimidating Negroes." It was created by the state Department of Veterans Affairs, which quickly moved to assure the public that it is not a final list.

A heavy-hitting fundraiser for GOP Senate candidate Adam Hasner wants Republicans to "embrace the principle of compromise" and back a tax increase to break the debt-deficit deadlock in Washington, D.C.

Al Hoffman Jr., a high-profile and longtime party fundraiser, urged in a New York Times op-ed:

"Rather than go to their martyrdom as ideological purists, [Republicans] should open the door to tax increases -- but only if every $1 in new taxes is applied to deficit reduction and is matched by at least $4 in real spending cuts, including entitlement reform."

Having entered the Republican presidential race last month, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, a favorite of the tea party movement, is riding high in the polls and turning her attention to delegate-rich Florida.

It was announced this week that Bachmann, who is at the moment the chief conservative threat to front-runner Mitt Romney, will be heading to Florida in August and September for two events.