U.S. Rep. Dennis Ross, R-Fla., part of the congressional leadership as senior deputy majority whip, kicked off his bid for a fourth term in the U.S. House on Monday. 

Random thoughts on the passing scene: The presidential election prospects for the Democrats are so bad this year that only the Republicans can save them -- as Republicans have saved them before.

As a Republican voter, if I'm a South Florida Sun Sentinel reader, I am profoundly disappointed in my newspaper. 

Rosemary O'Hara, the editorial page editor, just told me and the nation on CNN that her newspaper -- a publication that unfailingly endorses in the biggest elections -- isn't going to make a selection in the GOP primary because not one man in the diverse four-candidate field is qualified to be president. Not one.

But here's the problem: I don't get to do what they did. 

Terminally ill patients would have access to marijuana under a measure that would legalize full-strength pot for the first time in Florida if signed into law by Gov. Rick Scott.

The proposal, approved Monday by the Senate, would add cannabis to a list of experimental drugs available to patients diagnosed with illnesses that could result in death within a year without life-saving interventions.