Marco took off his jacket; steadied himself and prepared for what would unquestionably be the softest pass ever thrown by Tim Tebow...
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A home made new year's video from the Gelber children (and grandpa too).
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The convention hall morphed into a Roman Coliseum as audience members cheered and agreed to "let him die." It was way more offensive than any over-the-top episode of "Vampire Diaries."
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Rubio's argument is no better or different than every past attempt by the right wing to use lofty language to rationalize wrongheaded policies that help a few well connected or advance a partisan agenda. But "trickle-down" economics and "compassionate conservatism," aren't truly policies, they are public relations gimmicks intended to make people feel better about disregarding who we are.
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My Dad grew up in the Great Depression as a first generation American. Like many, he always had boarders in the small apartment he was raised in as my grandparents struggled to get by. He went into the Air Force (Army Air Corps) in 1941 (for $1 a day) and after the war returned to the state he trained in because he liked sunshine, and opportunity seemed to abound here.
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Four words I never expected to say: I miss Jeb Bush.

Don't misunderstand, I fought Jeb (and, I suspect, will again). But no matter how much I opposed his policies, I always believed Jeb possessed the requisite respect for our state and its people.

Sadly, I can't say that about Rick Scott.

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But Florida seems to have decided since we can't measure maximum performance, let's just measure minimal competence. Let's make our floor also our ceiling, and declare success when we reach this low water mark.
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Nope, instead the Governor today will sign a bill that is intended to index their pay to their students' performance mostly on the FCAT and eliminate their job security in the name of weeding out "bad" teachers. Later this month the Legislature will pass a budget that cuts perhaps as much as a billion dollars from an already bottom of the barrel education budget.

It is indeed a cruel hoax that SB 736 promises pay raises with everything but the pay or the raise.

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The legislature's frontal attack on the court is as wrongheaded as it is small minded. And like any schoolyard bully, they picked someone who cannot fight back. The court has to remain silent and comport itself in precisely the manner you would expect of justices - while the legislature is acting, unfortunately, like the middle-school bullies they have sadly become.

Our nation, and our state, was founded on the notion that we must honor the rule of law, and the principle that a healthy and independent judiciary is a welcomed check on the unconstrained ambitions of the legislative and executive branches. It would be a sad day for my friend Dean Cannon if his legacy turns out to be something so petty and injurious to the principles that I always believed he cherished.

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Don't get me wrong, I get that the federal health care bill has its warts, and that it was created in a sausage-making factory, which is never fun to watch. But the preoccupation with repealing it or attacking it cannot eclipse the need to address the reason it came to be.
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