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And they call Mississippi backward. Somebody please tell me how a county clerk from Kentucky who swore an oath to execute the law of the land, then refused to do it, gets to keep her job. 

A hostile review of my new book -- "Wealth, Poverty and Politics" -- said, "there is apparently no level of inequality of income or opportunity that Thomas Sowell would consider unacceptable."

Everything that makes sense should be done to ensure Florida residents have an adequate water supply. As in every other issue related to public policy, the question is what makes sense.

Florida can take the blame -- or credit -- for ensuring Rick Perry never sits in the Oval Office. The former Texas governor pulled the plug on his presidential bid on Friday afternoon but, in retrospect, his White House ambitions went south after losing the RPOF’s Presidency 5 straw poll back in September 2011. 

Some in the media were quick to dismiss Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's speech attacking Donald Trump as the opportunistic rant of a 1 percenter.

Mark Levin's new book "Plunder and Deceit" has been No.

It’s time. In fact, it's past time.

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.

You know I like this governor.

Congress is finally having its say on the Iran deal.

Stuck in the back of the crowded pack of Republican presidential hopefuls and trying to get back into the race, Bobby Jindal has opted to tear into Donald Trump, guns blazing.

So you think policymakers and bureaucrats have a handle on what ordinary Floridians think? Have a look at this recently released piece of UF/IFAS research: It shows Floridians "strongly believe" farmers protect the state's environment and water resources.

"I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the program which I most desired to see

Did Blake Guillory really happen? You might be hard-pressed to remember after Peter Antonacci takes the reins Thursday morning at the South Florida Water Management District.

I've seen this movie before.