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Fragging: "To intentionally kill or wound (one's superior officer, etc.), esp. with a hand grenade."

Thanks to Tea Party fanatics, we are told, America just lost a historic opportunity to deal with her national debt.

Floridas recent drought and its effect on water supply and the environment should lead to serious discussions about water management and how water supply decisions are made.

About a year before he made his first run for the presidency, I had a chance to sit down and talk extensively with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

It is a simple fact in household economics that you cant spend more money than you make.

"Like a fire bell in the night," wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1820, "this momentous question ... awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union."

After years of inexplicably large gaps between low reading results and sky-high writing scores, the Florida Department of Education admits to overly lenient grading of essays and says it is tightening standards.

The big news, as far as the media are concerned, is the political game of debt-ceiling chicken that is being played by Democrats and Republicans in Washington.

This week lasted a bit longer than most congressional weeks with both the House and the Senate leaders meeting at the White House twice on Saturday.