With eyes wide open, Mike Pence eagerly auditioned for the role as Donald Trump's poodle. Now comfortably leashed, he deserves the degradations that he seems too sycophantic to recognize as such. He did Trump's adolescent bidding with last Sunday's pre-planned virtue pageant of scripted indignation -- his flight from the predictable sight of players kneeling during the national anthem at a football game. No unblinkered observer can still cling to the hope that Pence has the inclination, never mind the capacity, to restrain, never mind educate, the man who elevated him to his current glory. Pence is a reminder that no one can have sustained transactions with Trump without becoming too soiled for subsequent scrubbing.

Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez -- fearful of losing important federal money if the county didn't comply with federal immigration detention requests -- didn't want his to be one of the jails that failed to cooperate with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) detainer program.

The Zika virus is back in the Sunshine State.