Being right over a wrong is no fun. Nevertheless, I predicted some time ago that Bright Futures would crash and burn like a polyester-weave bottle rocket. And guess what?

We Americans are lucky, though we seldom reflect on it, that we have good neighbors.

The striking juxtaposition of the preternaturally perfect Angelina Jolie, waifish and wispy in a ghostly gown, and the scrappy Pakistani schoolgirl Malala, her face cruelly misshapen by the effects of a Taliban bullet to the head, captures the confluence of feminine power assembled here to "lean on" the world to save women and girls.

As a former assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of Energy, I understand the importance of considering all forms of energy when discussing our state and nation’s future.

WASHINGTON -- Is a bipartisan immigration deal at hand? It's close.

There really is another Andy Enfield out there. Or, in there. May not seem that way now, but Florida Gulf Coast University basketball didn't just have its last best March. 

I plunged into Thomas Sowell's latest book "Intellectuals and Race" immediately upon its arrival but soon realized that I needed to slow down. Many writers express a few ideas with a great cataract of words. Sowell is the opposite.

Florida rose steadily in recent years on the annual Chief Executive Magazine business-friendly ranking, now second only to Texas for being the best state for business. 

The mainstream media have had it in for Gov. Rick Scott ever since he decided to run for office.

Pundits are fond of urging politicians to act like “statesmen” and “think of the next generation instead of the next election.”