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WASHINGTON -- "Colleagues," said the June 27 letter to 98 U.S. senators, "now it is your turn." The letter's authors are Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, the chairman and ranking Republican on the tax-writing Finance Committee, respectively. From their combined 71 years on Capitol Hill they know that their colleagues will tiptoe gingerly, if at all, onto the hazardous terrain of tax reform.

What is the most intellectually dishonest profession around? My nomination: the admissions officers at highly selective colleges and universities.

The Foundation for Excellence in Education today shared with Sunshine State News readers former Gov. Jeb Bush's remarks on education reform to the American Legislative Exchange Council's annual meeting this week in Chicago.

"There have been times when they slip back into Cold War thinking," said President Obama in his tutorial with Jay Leno. And to show the Russians that such Cold War thinking is antiquated, Obama canceled his September summit with Vladimir Putin.

DETROIT -- This city is the broken tooth in Michigan's smile. Nevertheless, the preternaturally optimistic governor, from whom never is heard a discouraging word, cheerfully describes his recent foray with a crew cleaning up a park in a particularly, well,challengingneighborhood:

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus is doing the right thing. He's making the national media's blatant partisan bias a prominent issue right out of the gate to Campaign 2016.

According to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, one in every 13 children -- or approximately two children per classroom -- has a food allergy.

Nothing is free in politics, but there is some question when you pay the price. That's been a saying of mine for many years, though I may have unconsciously plagiarized it from someone else. I think it applies to Obamacare.

So Tony Bennett gets the boot, and liberals get a gotcha. Hooray.