There's an invisible layer of high-level government business conducted every day in the Florida Capitol, a subsurface of information-share that hums along office-to-office, out of the public's earshot and out of the sunshine.

It may surprise you to discover a growing number of social conservatives and libertarians are questioning the alignment of capital punishment with conservative principles and values.

More and more -- even in Florida -- they're rethinking and rejecting the death penalty, according to the man who is carrying the message across the nation, Florida included.

"American criminal justice," says Marc Hyden, "is a system marked by inefficiency, inequity and inaccuracy."

Following the Charlie Hebdo massacre, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said that France "is at war with terrorism, jihadism and radical Islamism." This tells us what France is fighting against.

The eight states at the heart of the American shale oil revolution all grew faster than the U.S. national average over the last decade, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), underscoring the importance of oil production to the U.S. economy.

Meghan McCain, the outspoken daughter of U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., is on Team Jeb. Speaking with Larry King on Politicking on Ora.TV, McCain said she was backing former Gov. Jeb Bush, R-Fla, for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016. While her father is on the sidelines, he has encouraged his ally U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., to enter the presidential primaries.