Nancy Smith

Hes big and hes brash and he brags like a sailor on shore leave. All fine for a TV personality hyping his new show. But Donald Trump is talking about running for the highest office in the land.

You had to know the buzz over Steve Wises bill to discontinue part-time school board members salaries would grow into something akin to a blast from a South African vuvuzela.

"In Texas, we do not hold high expectations for the [governor's] office; it's mostly been occupied by crooks, dorks and the comatose."

If ever there was a time and a place for a housecleaning, the time is now and the place is the South Florida Water Management District.

What a difference a day makes.

Two more sources call back, Rick Scott doesnt and all of a sudden I realize the turncoat-governor rumors may not be so far-fetched.

"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."
-- Mark Twain

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, Hero

A year ago Charlie Crist was a Republican, Marco Rubio was lying in the weeds in Miami and Bill McCollum was so far ahead in the governor's race he struck a pose and fell asleep.

It doesn't take a genius to figure out what unions are getting from all the muscle-flexing going on in Wisconsin.

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy! Told you so. ... Told you this here is Tallahassee, Gov. I'll-Do-It-My-Way. We don't need no stinkin' outsiders.

To most conservative business groups, the mainstream media are a brick wall.

And the brick is always blue, never red.

Always on the left, never the right.

Tallahassee or Washington, they both share the same nutty, inside-the-Beltway-logic:

When you're in a hole, keep digging.

For the first time in years, the South Florida Water Management District has a chance to get a grip on reality, and what does it do? Whine like a spoiled brat.

"California, here we come." Unless it's vacation you're talking about, you don't want to hear that and you don't want to go there.

Justin Sayfie, I apologize. I wanted to call you my hero in the headline, but I didn't get a chance to run it by Lucy Morgan first.