U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., has once again teamed up with U.S. Sen Jeanne Shaheen, D-NH, to take aim at Hezbollah.

Every year, around the middle of the summer, with the Legislature long gone and the governor's office mostly silent, comes a time when courts are the center of the action in Tallahassee.

That season has come.

Courts were dealing this week with everything from quality of schools to the governor's authority to appoint Supreme Court justices to a state abortion law. The earliest decision in any of those matters is probably weeks away, and some will take even longer.

It is said that America's armed forces have been stressed by 16 years of constant warfare, the longest such in the nation's history. For the Air Force, however, the high tempo of combat operations began 26 years ago, with enforcement of the no-fly zone in Iraq after Desert Storm. With an acute pilot shortage, particularly in the fighter pilot community, and with a shortfall approaching 4,000 among maintenance and staffing personnel, the service is, as Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson says, "too small for what the nation expects of it."

Florida’s unemployment rate dipped to 4.1 percent in June, a 10-year low in the Sunshine State.