How can anyone justify threatening rape victims with a Bad-Conduct Discharge if they dare to speak out about their assaults? I'm just dying to hear the argument, if you've got one!

Rick Scott says that he's going to focus on jobs, education, and the rule of law; but Gary Borders is running Lake County like his own personal mafia! And the governor is instead involved in promoting an Arizona SB1070-copycat bill - I guess that's his definition of rule of law!

Words from the street in Cairo echo in my mind, "It's time for change!" We need to legalize prostitution so that we can regulate it and protect children from being exploited!

ABC news reported that the suspect, a military officer's wife, was hospitalized on Saturday, and had complained that her children were "mouthy."

The Center for American Progress' latest study outlines the local measures, the legal battles, & the costs of the growing backlash against Hispanic immigrants, one "driven by fear, economic uncertainty, and cultural differences" in certain small towns of New Jersey, Nebraska, Pen …

A rundown on the follow-ups to the Mississippi move this week....

Not only does the South Carolina Farm Bureau acknowledge that we lack an adequate supply of laborers, but they are promoting the idea of actually solving the problem instead of further inflaming the passions around it for political gain!

Apparently, House Republicans are not reading the same briefs on the topic as we are....

DAYTONA BEACH -- A decade-old law that gives criminal immunity to some people who defend themselves with knives, fists, sticks or guns is rearing its head more frequently in Volusia County courtrooms.

From the article, Islamist deaths squads are hunting down gay Iraqis and summarily executing them.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The number of hate crimes reported in Florida last year reached their lowest levels since 1990. Law enforcement agencies in the state reported 148 hate crimes in 2009, well below the annual average of 262 hate crimes.

Pensacola Beach Oil Tar Cover Up This is one of many videos showing, speculating or alleging that BP is not cleaning the oil from our beaches but covering the oil up with sand.

Rep. Connie Mack (R-Fla.) ripped into the new Arizona immigration law today, comparing it to Nazi Germany.

"This law of 'frontier justice' – where law enforcement officials are required to stop anyone based on 'reasonable suspicion' that they may be in the country illegally – is reminiscent of a time during World War II when the Gestapo in Germany stopped people on the street and asked for their papers without probable cause," Mack said in a statement.

perhaps the sickest thing I have read in a long time.

Arencibia says it was meant to be a joke.

I was checking out the FBI's crime numbers for my home state this morning. One that stood out was Forcible Rape. In the state of Florida in 2008 there have been 1,355 reported cases of forcible rape for that year.