It was to be a trilateral debate among Florida's candidates for the U.S. Senate, the first in a two-night doubleheader at Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale. So what was Aesop, the famed Greek fabulist of antiquity, doing up there?

For the most part, Democratic Rep. Kendrick Meek,...

Rep. Suzanne Kosmas, one of three Florida Democrats in Congress that the Republicans would dearly like to defeat, has now picked up endorsements from two of the district's three largest-circulation daily newspapers. And the third daily doesn't count.

In Florida's 24th congressional district, it's all about space. The...

Politics may make strange bedfellows, but once in a while it also makes surprising adversaries. So it is this year in Florida's Gerrymander War. In one corner, a bipartisan tag team of minority congressional members, Black Democrat Corrine Brown and Hispanic Republican Mario Diaz-Balart, plus state...

Has Rep. Alan Grayson gone a bridge too far in his campaign to keep his Orlando-based congressional seat? The media ruckus over his "Taliban Dan" attack on his challenger, Dan Webster, would suggest so, but his campaign thinks not, despite having been caught editing a video clip to make Webster...

After stoking the flames under Tea Partying anger for a year and a half, Glenn Beck is now urging his radio audience to cool it. In his own words: "Hang up the Statue of Liberty costume...(and) leave it in the closet. Don't bring your signs anymore." It's an...

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To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, there they go again. In this case, "they" are the brothers Koch, billionaire oil tycoons David and Charles, operating through their tax-exempt organization, innocuously named Americans for Prosperity. As soon as the results from Florida's primary were in,...