WASHINGTON -- America's capacity for optimism and hope has been boundless through much of our short history.
The tangible returns of hard work; the ordered liberty sustained through community consent; and opportunity honed over time to apply equally to all men and women -- these were the currency of what we called the American Dream.
On Tuesday, the U.S. District Court issued a ruling that drug screening of welfare recipients was unconstitutional.
The ruling comes as a loss to Gov. Rick Scott, who promised to enact drug tests during his 2010 campaign for governor. In 2011, Scott signed a law to drug test recipients of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, but the court issued a preliminary injunction a few months after.
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2013 will be remembered as the year President Barack Obama's halo went askew. It deserves to be remembered for some other things.
Washington, they say, is Hollywood for ugly people. I don't know about that, but certainly 2013 in the nation's capital hit new peaks for bipartisan buffoonery and uselessness.
