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.
The U.S. Senate is set to vote this week on the Sportsmen's Act of 2012 (S 3525), a 100-page bipartisan measure that has pitted the gun industrys trade association and a major gun-rights organization against each other.
And Sunshine State News has learned that this particular opposition to the bill originated with lawyers close to Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.
Seven of the 28 schools in the Florida College System have accepted the governors challenge of creating four-year degree programs that cost under $10,000.
Valencia College, Santa Fe College, College of Central Florida, Daytona State College, Seminole State College of Florida and Broward College joined St. Petersburg College which earlier on Monday agreed to take on the task, according to a release from the governors office.
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Former state legislator Carey L. Baker, already elected to the post, has been appointed Lake County property appraiser by Gov. Rick Scott.
Baker will complete the term of Ed Havill, who died shortly after being defeated in the August election. Baker was set to take office Jan. 8, 2013.
Havill had served as property appraiser for 36 years.
Baker, 49, of Eustis, is currently serving as a first sergeant in the Army National Guard.
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Post-election season is a time for healing, for putting aside the rancor of a long campaign and rediscovering what unites us. It has not been that way this year.
LifeSiteNews has the scoop on yet another Obamacare challenge making its way through the federal courts:
"The Supreme Court has ordered the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear a lawsuit against the HHS mandate, setting up a legal test of the most controversial provision of the Obama administrations health care reform law before the High Court as early as next year.
"'Todays ruling breathes new life into our challenge to ObamaCare,' said Mat Staver, the dean of Liberty University Law School, who filed the case.
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Most children under 7 would have to ride in a booster seat or other safety seat under legislation filed Monday in the state Senate.
The proposal which federal officials have been pushing Florida to pass for several years is aimed at avoiding injuries to children who remain too small to be adequately protected by an adult seatbelt, even after they're too big for infant car seats.
Florida is one of three states that don't require older children to ride in a booster seat after age 4.
