The trouble with all those “public loves the public option polls”: The trouble with these sort of polls is that they almost never ask the right followup questions: How much would you be willing to see your insurance premiums rise if “insurers [are banned] from excluding people because of pre-existing conditions”? Do you understand that if “insurers [are banned] from excluding people because of pre-existing conditions,” there will have to be a government mandate that healthy young people buy insurance?

In Florida, an environmental crusade just happens to benefit special interests: “Nearly two years later, the governor’s ambitious plan to reclaim the river of grass, as the famed wetlands are known, is instead on track to rescue the fortunes of United States Sugar.”