Documents inconvenient to the regime went into the Ministry of Truth's slits and down to "enormous furnaces." Modern tyrannies depend on state control of national memories -- retroactive truths established by government fiat. Which is why Russia's Supreme Court recently upheld the conviction of a blogger for violating Article 354.1 of Russia's criminal code.

The Florida Education Association will appeal lower court rulings on the constitutionality of the state’s Tax Credit Scholarship Program which gives vouchers to low-income students, the FEA announced Wednesday.

Looking to offer Florida’s citrus industry relief in the wake of citrus greening, U.S. Rep. Vern Buchanan’s, R-Fla., measure giving tax incentives to farmers who need to replace trees impacted by the disease passed a key committee on Wednesday and is now headed to the House floor. 

The two congressional representatives from Florida who lead the House Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee scored a win this week as the U.S. House passed  a resolution backing a longterm Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on military assistance between the U.S. and Israeli governments. 

U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., who chairs the subcommittee, was joined by her colleague U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., the ranking Democrat on the subcommittee, in launching the resolution back in May.  Twenty other members of the Florida delegation also co-sponsored the proposal.