David Beckham is perfect for Miami. He's a winner, a one-man stimulus package. And how Miami loves its winners.

UPDATED:At 5 p.m. Tuesday, Tropical Storm Andrea was bearing down on the state capital, in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico about 35 miles north north-west of Cedar Key, or approximately 80 miles southeast of Tallahassee.

Law enforcement in the capital have asked people to stay off the roads, some of which are flooded and strewn with debris.

Remember the increasing chunk of the budget environmentalists want to embed in the Constitution to buy conservation lands -- 33 percent of annualnet revenues from the excise tax on documentsfrom here to kingdom come?

Hopefully the Senate will sink Bill Nelson's beach house bailout bill.

Scandals have apparently caught up with Barack Obama. All of a sudden polls are showing the once-popular president's approval ratings as upside-down as a bad mortgage.

This sale of American pork giant Smithfield Foods to massive Chinese meat producer Shuanghai is just a little bit creepy, don't you think?

With its swamps and deep woods and regions of profound isolation, Florida has always been a place where bad things can happen without anybody finding out for years.

I always stand up for strong women in high places. Ask anybody. Hillary Clinton, Janet Reno, Paula Dockery, Marion Hammer -- in times of adversity, I've gone to bat for all of them and more. But Mary Jane Saunders? Not in this lifetime.

We should thank Governor Moonbeam for reminding us how lucky we are to be Floridians and not Californians.