CRUZ GETS SIX BILLS FILED
New Rep. Janet Cruz, just elected in a special election for a Tampa area seat on Feb. 23, has filed her allotment of bills for the session. Cruz, D-Tampa, filed HB 925, creating a breast cancer early detection program, HB 1493 related to career offenders, HB 1495, which prohibits mailing or delivery of unsolicited checks, HB 1497, dealing with when officials must expunge the nonjudicial arrest records of minors, HB 1603 dealing with the Florida State Employees' Charitable Campaign. She also filed HB 1623, the "Helen Gordon Davis Equal Pay Protection Act, which would requires the state to conduct studies and provide information to employers, labor organizations and the public on how to eliminate pay disparities between men and women.

WASHINGTON -- It is said, more frequently than precisely, that the reasons the Supreme Court gives for doing whatever it does are as important as what it does. Actually, the court's reasons are what it does. Hence, the interest in the case the Supreme Court considered last week.

It's quite striking to see the degree to which traditional Islam has come under ferocious attack from the anti-religious impulse in Hollywood and New York and other bohemian centers in America. It is clearly anti-Islamic religious bigotry. Take a look at just some examples over the past year alone.

In my entire career, I have never been as confounded as I am over President Obama and the Democratic leadership's obsession with a piece of legislation that not one major national poll has shown to be popular. A quick glance at this week's surveys shows about a 10 percent spread between those who favor the latest health care legislation and those who oppose it.