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Rough and tumble. Hammer and tongs. In the race for this year's Republican nomination, Donald Trump has not hesitated to attack and ridicule many of his opponents, and some of them have teed up attacks on him, only to hold back when they seemed to help rather than hurt him. 

To some 440,000 Floridians, the most important question to be decided by the 2016 Florida Legislature is whether Florida's lucrative horse industry will be preserved or whether it will be allowed to die, a pawn in a political ploy to get more money in the hands of casino operators.

Pastor Jamal Bryant was invited to be the keynote speaker Jan. 18 at the annual MLK awards breakfast in St. Petersburg by the National Council of Negro Women.

The indictment of Bill Cosby for sexual assault could play an important role in the 2016 campaign. On Comedy Central, leftist "fake news" anchor Larry Wilmore said even if Cosby isn't convicted, a trial is a good thing.

Officially, President Barack Obama is staying out of the Democratic primary in Florida’s U.S. Senate race. But the White House gave Patrick Murphy a bit of a boost last week. 

On Friday, U.S. Rep. David Jolly, R-Fla., highlighted the Thin Blue Line Act that he introduced last year. 

It puzzles me that the liberal media in Florida made little effort to see past their dislike of Gov. Rick Scott, spending the last five years painting virtually every Scott appointee as a liability for the taxpayers of Florida. None of Scott's lieutenants deserve the disdain less than Jesse Panuccio.

On Wednesday, former Gov. Gary Johnson, R-NM, launched his second bid for the White House:

In an email sent Wednesday afternoon obtained exclusively by this reporter, Facebook rescinded its initial decision that a page that incited hatred and violence against Israelis met “community standards.” 

Network news outlets conduct their own polls. They also bury the poll results when they don't like them. On PBS on Jan. 1, liberal pundit Mark Shields brought some very bad news for the left. The NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found 73 percent say they want the next president to take a different approach from President Obama's. 

Rick Scott’s starting the new year by offering some reminders that, even while he can’t run for a third term, he’s no lame duck in Tallahassee. 

“…protect and defend human life at every stage of its development.” Pope Francis, in his address to a joint session of the United States Congress, September 24, 2015

Down in the polls and now running out of time, Jeb Bush opened the door this week to having his brother George W. Bush hit the campaign trail with him as he tries to salvage his bid for the Republican presidential nomination. 

Those who have been marveling at Donald Trump's political showmanship were given a reminder of who is the top showman of them all, when President Barack Obama went on television to make a pitch for his unilateral actions to restrict gun sales and make a more general case for tighter gun control laws.

Annette Taddeo may be the darling of Democrats in Congress, but in her own Congressional District 26, she is a pariah.