An insulting vote My deepest congratulations to the U.S. Senate on its vote to reject foreign medical drug imports ("Senate rejects drug imports," Nation+World, Dec. 16), especially when you consider their argument and reasons: Those foreign drugs could be ineffective and potentially dangerous. What horse manure. How is it possible for an educated and elected representative of the U.S. Congress to believe such a ridiculous statement? ...more

December 18, 2009

Gov. Charlie Crist responded this morning to questions about the latest Rasmussen poll, showing him tied at 43 percent with Marco Rubio in the race for U.S. Senate. ...more

December 16, 2009

One day in 2002, Reginald "Reggie" Osenton found himself on Interstate 4 once again, driving his family to Disney. ...more

December 16, 2009

Its agenda is to save the world, yet you don't overhear people talking about the climate summit in Copenhagen. ...more

December 15, 2009

An increasingly fractious challenge to the Republican Party from its own conservative base could relegate the party to indefinite minority status, some Republicans fear. ...more

December 12, 2009

It's unbelievable that members of the U.S. Senate on both sides of the aisle are receiving so much resistance to make low cost prescription drugs from other countries available to Americans. The same worn-out arguments still are stopping this process and all it really comes down to are pharmaceutical manufacturers not wanting lose the billions in profits. ...more

December 11, 2009

Senators trying to craft bipartisan climate legislation offered a revised proposal Thursday that would add incentives for building nuclear power plants and open the way for expanded oil and gas drilling off the nation's coastlines in hopes of attracting wider support. ...more

December 10, 2009

Dogged by spending controversies, party rifts and even calls for his ouster, state Republican Party chairman Jim Greer received a welcome vote of confidence from his executive board on Thursday. ...more

December 10, 2009

U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio refused Monday to say how he would vote on the controversial SunRail proposal now being considered by the state Legislature, even though a similar proposal passed the state House with his support as speaker in 2008. ...more

December 8, 2009

Paula Hawkins, who in 1980 became the first woman elected to a full Senate term without a family political connection, died Friday. She was 82. ...more

December 5, 2009