After 10 Glorious Years, Sunshine State News and I Are Passing the Baton

A straw poll by Tea Party Fort Lauderdale gave former Florida House Majority Leader Adam Hasner 50 percent of the first-place votes in the crowded GOP contest for U.S. Senate. Hasner collected a commanding 62 percent of the first- and second-place ballots cast in the May 7-14 survey. Mike McCalister had the next-best showing, garnering 12 percent of the first-place votes and 24.5 percent of the second-place ballots.

Muslim-American leaders are expressing "shock" over the arrests of two Miami area imams charged with providing $50,000 to the Pakistani Taliban. Nezar Hanze of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said Saturday at a news conference, "I was very shocked. I was very shocked, just as other members of the community were shocked."

The more authorities pore through records confiscated during the Navy SEALs' raid on Osama bin Laden's compound, the more we discover what was going on in his obsessed, full-of-hatred-for-Americans mind. The latest discovery, says ABC News, was that, in his writings, the al-Quaida leader constantly urged his followers to kill President Barack Obama and do everything they could to disrupt the 2012 elections. He couldn't stand to see Obama on television, say analysts, and would change the channel whenever the American president was shown.

The St. Pete Times is a little behind the times. A blog posted Friday related: "Palm Beach County Republican Party chairman Sid Dinerstein plans to ask the state GOP's executive committee [Saturday] to pass a resolution calling on Gov. Rick Scott to call a special legislative session ... to pass an E-Verify immigration bill." That idea was addressed by the governor himself in a Sunshine State News interview last Tuesday -- and he said no. Here's our question and Scott's answer: