Sound the trumpets. The New York Times announced on March 18 that it is bringing in 20 new online-focused writers as contributors for its op-ed and Sunday Review sections. In an interview, Times editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal claimed, "We were looking for a broad range of viewpoints and subjects and backgrounds and geographical locations and every kind of form of diversity that you can think of."

At the end of last month, nationally prominent pundit Fred Barnes, one of the co-founders of the Weekly Standard and a familiar face on Fox News, spoke to the Federalist Society at Walt Disney World about how Republican state attorneys general have offered the most effective opposition to President Barack Obama.

Welcome to "The Dean's List" -- an Ed Dean-style look at who Florida's political achievers were (and weren't) in the last seven days. What you see here is strictly my opinion, not necessarily the editor's or the rest of the staff at Sunshine State News.