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House Seat 91: With Rep. Ellyn Bogdanoff, R-Fort Lauderdale, running for Senate, three Republicans, a Democrat and a TEA Party candidate are running for this seat in Broward and Palm Beach counties.

House Seat 86: With Rep. Maria Lorts Sachs, D-Delray Beach, running for the Senate, the Democrats will keep this seat representing Palm Beach County as no Republican is running in the race. Lori Berman, a former congressional aide and an attorney, appears to have this seat in the bag. Berman raised almost $109,000 and spent more than $63,000. Her opponent in the primary, Carole Penny Kaye, raised less than $5,000, loaned her campaign $2,000 and spent most of that. Berman is a heavy favorite to win the nomination and thus the seat.

JERUSALEM -- When Israel declared independence in 1948, it had to use mostly small arms to repel attacks by six Arab armies. Today, however, Israel feels, and is, more menaced than it was then, or has been since. Hence the potentially world-shaking decision that will be made here, probably within two years.

"The pace of economic recovery is likely to be more modest in the near term than had been anticipated." Those were the carefully chosen words of the Federal Reserve Board after its meeting Tuesday. Translation into English: We wuz wrong.

JERUSALEM -- Two photographs adorn the office of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Together they illuminate a portentous fact: No two leaders of democracies are less alike -- in life experiences, temperaments and political philosophies -- than Netanyahu, the former commando and fierce nationalist, and Barack Obama, the former professor and post-nationalist.

NEW YORK -- Observing the Michelle Obama vacation controversy unfold, one is of multiple minds.

Federal Judge Vaughn Walker is truly a visionary.

We should all be thankful that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe did not have sons who lived to maturity.

Republicans are starting to think about how to answer the Robert Redford question. You know the scene. In the 1972 movie "The Candidate," the Redford character, having won the election, turns to his political consultant and asks, "What do I do now?"