If Sonia Sotomayor becomes the next member of the U.S. Supreme Court, she'll take a seat among colleagues who are divided into predictable camps that rarely agree on anything.
Like many other Americans, every time I take my family to a national park I find myself thinking: Wow! If I only had a gun . . . Now, thanks to Congress and President Obama, all of us will soon be able to carry loaded firearms into national parks and wildlife refuges. Even concealed weapons will be allowed, for those who have state permits.
President Obama's promise to shut down the Guantánamo Bay detention center in Cuba has hit a snag because he hasn't figured out what to do with the 240 detainees.
Ah, Charlie, we hardly knew ye. The lad was but a bronze blur, streaking across the bright Tallahassee firmament . . . OK, streaking isn't exactly the right word.
The bad news for the Roman Catholic Church: Father Alberto Cutié, the widely popular priest at St. Francis de Sales in Miami Beach, was photographed cavorting romantically on a Florida beach.
When you're a Miami-Dade commissioner, danger lurks at every ribbon-cutting. Just ask Jose ''Pepe'' Diaz. His job is so perilous that he often leaves his county-leased Cadillac Escalade parked at home and, instead, has a gun-toting sergeant-at-arms deliver him to official functions.
In an historic turnabout, the most prominent Cuban exile organization in the country now wants the Obama White House to expand and enhance relations with the Castro regime.
Every divorced guy would love an ex-wife like Barbara Gomez. As the chief of Miami's public housing agency, she helped funnel more than $1 million in city contracts to companies employing one of her former husbands.
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