Jimmy Carter is out with his 26th book, so that means he is on his 26th round of slavish liberal-media interviews hailing him as a genius and a peacemaker. No wonder we're so tired of him.

With slightly more than three weeks to go before the Florida electorate begins deciding on a change to class-size requirements in public schools, state leaders say voters are getting misinformation.

Tampa will be hosting the 2012 Republican National Convention, and that fact hasn't escaped a bevy of potential presidential candidates who are eyeing the Sunshine State two years ahead of time.

Despite lawmakers rejection of two earlier Public Service Commission nominees for lacking experience in the field, on Tuesday Gov. Charlie Crist continued a move to put outsiders on the panel, appointing West Palm Beach city official Eduardo Balbis and former city of Tampa attorney Julie Brown to the commission.

The Ron Klein-Allen West congressional contest took another nasty turn with the dissemination of a lien supposedly against West's house bearing West's Social Security number.

An effort to repeal the dont ask, dont tell policy signed into law by Bill Clinton back in 1993 failed in the U.S. Senate Tuesday as Democrats, looking to allow homosexuals to serve openly in the military, could not muster enough votes to break a Republican-led filibuster.

While Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill tried pandering to gays and lesbians and illegal aliens with controversial add-ons to the defense appropriations bill Tuesday, House Republicans were busy planning for Congress to get serious about the people's business.

Supporters of Amendment 8 kicked off the Right Size Class Size campaign Tuesday, hoping to convince Florida voters that relaxing class-size restrictions is the reasonable, most cost-effective and least-disruptive way to serve a changing student population in the Sunshine State.

Looking to revitalize an industry badly damaged by the economic downturn, the Florida Home Builders Association (FHBA) launched a new website Tuesday to serve as a storehouse of information for contractors and construction workers in the Sunshine State.