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SAN FRANCISCO -- The huge humpback whale whose friendliness precipitated a surreal seven-year -- so far -- federal hunt for criminality surely did not feel put upon.

The use of the phrase global marketplace has become so commonplace it is almost trite.

While Citizens Property Insurance Corp. continues to be a topic of interestfor Floridians across the state, including how policyholders in certain areaswill be able to afford potential, future rate hikes, some members of Congresshave proposed federal legislation that is also cause for concern.

Since 1928, only Dwight Eisenhower and George W. Bush have won the presidency while capturing both houses of Congress for the GOP.

As one who polled the 2008 presidential race extensively, it dawned on me, looking at the various "swing state" surveys taken recently, that many pollsters might be making a significant error that results in President Barack Obama with a lead, when perhaps the lead in reality belongs to Mitt Romney.

Lesser known than auto insurance fraud, but just as insidious, is fraud found in the workers compensation insurance market.

Ever since last week when Barack Obama said, If youve got a business --you didnt build that. Somebody else made that happen, his far-left backers have gone to great lengths to minimize the damage. One of the most frequent refrains is a call for context.

The men are so near to each other in all their convictions and theories of life that nothing is left to them but personal competition for the doing of the thing that is to be done.

The Obama administration has quietly issued new bureaucratic rules that overturned the popular welfare reform law of 1996. This illegal move completely undoes years of progress that helped millions of Americans.

"If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen." Mitt Romney fell on this Obama quote like an NFL lineman on an end zone fumble during the Super Bowl. And understandably so.