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Another election, another surprise. Actually, two elections, in two countries last weekend, with surprisingly pleasant surprises. And in two very large countries: Turkey (population 82 million) and Mexico (119 million), both very important to the United States.

Some environmental groups have more money than they do brains. Meet the Everglades Trust. They don't learn.

Hillary Clinton had one of the worst campaign roll-outs in living memory.

Can you spell h-y-p-o-c-r-i-t-e? Here's a closer  look at one: The Treasure Coast newspaper group that spent more than a year dogging lobbyist Ken Pruitt like a bloodhound at a crime scene for taking a sugar company's money ... well, how can I put this? ... climbed into bed with a sugar company. 

So Gov. Rick Scott signed HB 633, the abortion-waiting-period bill. What else is new? Another year, another opportunity for Florida to shame a woman.

Politico keeps posting ridiculous columns by both Democrats and Republicans

In recent weeks, Florida has created quite a bit of political news as it relates to energy production, with members of Congress filing legislation both to encourage and discourage Florida as a cont

"Despite everything," the often interesting analyst Jamelle Bouie writes in Slate -- "everything" includes "the email controversy, foreign donors and the Clinton Foundation" -- "Hillary is in good shape." Good enough to leave her party "still positioned for victory."

During its recent years at the top of the American political pyramid, the Bush family has valued loyalty and has generally defended its assorted subordinates.

After the pro-Western government of China was forced to flee to the island of Taiwan in 1949, when the Communists took over mainland China, bitter recriminations in Washington led to the question: "Who lost China?" China was, of course, never ours to lose, though it might be legitimate to ask if a different American policy toward China could have led to a different outcome.

Of all the lame arguments against school choice, the lamest must be “diversion.” Yet, once again, it was trotted out by the Associated Press, reporting in Wisconsin:

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.

WASHINGTON -- I rarely do follow-up columns. I'm averaging one every 10 years. And while my last such exercise resulted in a written apology from the White House (for accusing me of making up facts over its removal of Churchill's bust), today's is not a complaint. It's merely a recognition that the huge response elicited by last week's column, "Why Doctors Quit," warrants both rebuttal and clarification.

Rejecting Medicaid expansion as bad policy was the right decision for Florida. Frankly, it's the right decision for the other 20 red-state holdouts, too. 

Are we seeing a reversal of the 20-year decline in violent crime in America?