I'm sure the audience for a comment about this week's FSU elections would be pretty small statewide, but there was an item that should be of interest.
On the ballot was a question clearly designed to get the answer its writers wanted. Check it out:
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Some of the background scenery in this year's Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition -- due out on Tuesday -- might look familiar to Big Bend residents.
One of the five locations the magazine's editors chose to shoot the annual edition -- its most popular, for some reason -- was the St. George barrier island near Apalachicola, USA Today reported Friday.
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The Daily Caller's Neil Munro has an interesting article about Obama's speech Friday announcing religious organizations -- such as the Catholic Church -- will not have to provide coverage for sterilization and other birth-control measures that violate their beliefs.
The gist of it is, who qualifies as a "religious" organization?
The article essentially boils down to this:
By Kevin Derby
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., has been one of the leading critics of the Department of Health and Human Services' mandate that employers must provide birth-control coverage -- even companies affiliated with religious institutions opposed to birth control.
By Kevin Derby
Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania may have come in third place in the Florida Republican presidential primary but a new poll shows that he is doing better against President Barack Obama than former Gov. Mitt Romney in the Sunshine State.
A Rasmussen Reports of likely voters in Florida, released on Friday, finds Santorum in a dead heat with Obama. The Democrat incumbent takes 47 percent with Santorum right behind him with 46 percent. Four percent back other candidates while 4 percent are undecided.
By Kevin Derby
From his perch on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Florida Republican U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio reached out across the aisle to U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, Jr., D-Pa., to introduce a resolution calling for Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad to step down and for the Obama administration to help efforts to bring democracy to that nation.
By Kevin Derby
Florida U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, who is running for the Republican nomination to run against Democrat incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson in 2012, continues to carry water for GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney.
Mack, who was out front and center in Romneys big win in the Florida primary at the end of January, continued to back his presidential candidate on Friday when he spoke on the Martha Zoller show on WXKT-FM in Atlanta.
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The Associated Press, citing sources, said President Barack Obama is planning a speech at 12:15 p.m. Friday to announce a revision of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' ruling that all large employers must provide comprehensive birth-control coverage to women, including Catholic organizations.
The Jan. 20 ruling sparked an uproar among Catholic bishops, who had letters bitterly critical of the matter read at Masses on Sunday in churches around the country.
By Nancy Smith
In case you missed John Sununu's column in The Boston Globe on the wrong-headedness of states taxing e-commerce companies -- and the sheer arrogance of giant predators like Walmart to demand it, check it out here.
And pay close attention, Florida.
Some of the Sunshine State's biggest guns are doing the big-boxer's bidding, promoting an Internet sales tax this legislative session.
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An otherwise fairly good piece this morning from the Miami Herald's McClatchy about the Obama administration's assault on the Catholic Church's opposition to contraception and abortion contains one unfortunate paragraph that would be funny if it weren't so illuminating in how most of this country's media outlets see Obama, Republicans and, most importantly, voters at the beginning of an election year:
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