Like Tampa Bay Rays pitcher David Price, Rick Scott was making his first opening day start.
The lithe, bald right-hander took the mound at a sold-out Tropicana Field against the Baltimore Orioles with his trademark smile and laser focus.
His ceremonial first pitch? A big lollipop. Outside.
Was he booed or cheered? Cascading boos were predicted. But to be honest, unless you were there, you couldn't tell. The pitch was shown on TV in a replay -- the sound was muted, distorted or plain turned off on the field.
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NEW YORK -- Whether the topic is Libya's rebels or Afghanistan's "reconciliation" with the Taliban, the pivotal question is, or should be: What about the women?
During my brief tenure as a CNN anchor, I insistently raised this question and was consistently disappointed by the answer, which more or less went like this:
"Yes, well, the women. Too bad about the women. They'll suffer."
Florida pastor Terry Jones' oft-delayed burning of a Muslim religious book sparked a deadly guerrilla attack on United Nations staffers Friday in Afghanistan.
The Daily Mail of London reported that at least 10 U.N. staffers were murdered -- two by beheading -- after extremists stormed their compound in northern Afghanistan.
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Score another victory for the Confederates.
In what surely has to be the irony of ironies, yet another federal judge has sided with the Sons of Confederate Veterans in the group's ongoing battle to distribute its "heritage" license plates.
Anything bearing the image of the Confederate battle flag is widely considered politically incorrect, if not akin to full-blown Nazism. And that's not just the jaundiced opinion of Northerners or liberals. Republican legislatures, including Florida's, have taken a similarly dim view.
A majority of American voters say they are OK with a partial federal government shutdown if it will lead to greater cuts in spending.
A national survey released Friday reports 57 percent of likely U.S. voters value greater cuts in the 2011 federal budget more than avoiding a shutdown. Thirty-one percent believe keeping the engines running is of greater importance. Twelve percent were undecided
A new Rasmussen poll comes to us the same day President Barack Obama called out Congress over its continued budget wrangling.
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With more than 6.8 million acres already under state and local government control, the Florida Legislature is angling to sell and buy more land.
The dirt-dealing plan, buried in a Senate budget bill, directs agencies to sell off unneeded property. But it also would funnel all proceeds into the Florida Forever trust fund for the purpose of acquiring still more acreage.
"What one hand saveth, another spendeth," says Robert Weissert, of Florida TaxWatch.
