After Newtown, America needed a Christmas story with a happy ending, and thanks largely to South Florida Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, it's getting a beauty.

Scott Rothstein, Ponzi schemer and Charlie Crist's other lawyer friend, is still making headlines in South Florida, albeit through the people Rothstein involved in his fraud.

This week the Rothstein saga involves Gayla Sue Levin, wife of George Levin, the biggest source of money that flowed like a spring river into the flamboyant lawyer's Ponzi scheme.

Why is the Sandy Hook aftermath conversation only about gun control?

Liberals would have you believe Florida Forever has been left gasping its last on the governor's floor. Pay no attention. It's not true.

Some of the folks who know Charlie Crist and his uber-attorney employer John Morgan best say Florida is about to find out what makes their relationship tick.

It isn't, it never was, personal-injury law.

"I'll tell you what it is," said Washington, D.C., attorney Phillip A. Harris, who claims he worked briefly with both men. "It's all about ambition and a love of power. This is a real symbiotic friendship these two men have.

Something (else) is rotten in the Palm Beach County supervisor of elections office.

Somebody please tell me why the Florida Supreme Court hasn't made e-filing happen by now.

It seems Florida's new water protection rules haven't entirely prevailed over the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Late Friday the EPA announced it will satisfy its lengthy court battle with Florida environmentalists not just by approving the Florida Department of Environmental Protection's rules for lakes, streams, springs and estuaries, but also by issuing its own rules on miles of Florida rivers not covered by the state DEP's new anti-pollution criteria.

Of course the Democrats are going to look down their noses at a $10,000 college education: 1) they didn't think of it first; 2) it can't have any merit if Rick Scott is promoting it; and 3) heaven forbid debt-spooked students and their families get a choice.

No, Florida did not give President Barack Obama a re-election mandate on Nov. 6. But Miami-Dade County did -- and in stunning fashion.

Of the 4,235,270 votes cast for Obama statewide, the president won Florida by just 73,189 votes.

And some 69,000 of them -- a whopping 94 percent -- came from his increased vote margin in Miami-Dade County over 2008 numbers.