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Florida Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen delivered the Republicans’ response to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union in Spanish, the Miami Herald reported Tuesday. (more)

Detainees’ diets at Guantanamo Bay have been a controversial issue for some time and now the U.S. prison is said to be rationing ice cream. (more)

Former Florida Senate candidate and Palm Beach billionaire Jeff Greene is suing The Miami Herald and The St. Petersburg Times for libel, claiming the newspapers knowingly ran stories about him that were untrue with intent to ruin his candidacy. (more)

Jeff Greene, a Florida real estate developer who lost one of the year’s most bitter and closely watched primary elections, is preparing to sue The St. Petersburg Times and The Miami Herald for libel, claiming that articles they published cost him his bid for the United States Senate. (more)

Last month, Oliver Stone’s ”South of the Border” made its American debut. The documentary’s focus is Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, who Stone believes has been cruelly demonized in Western media. (more)

Charlie Crist sat down with the Miami Herald editorial board on May 19 to discuss his vote against the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and his staunch support for recent Obama nominee Elena Kagan. But Crist couldn’t explain why exactly he opposed Sotomayor, though he’d probably deny it had anything at all to do with the not-at-all close Republican primary he was involved in way back then. Crist did reaffirm, though, that Sotomayor’s big problem was what he perceives as her lack of respect for the Second Amendment. (more)

Florida Gov. Charlie Crist announced today that he will not refund donations he received from Republican voters before he left the GOP in his bid for Florida’s U.S. Senate seat. (more)

Republican Florida Senate frontrunner Marco Rubio’s new campaign ad takes aim at rival Charlie Crist’s previous insistence that he would run for the seat as a Republican in light of his decision yesterday to do just the opposite. “I knew when I started this race that my opponents supported the Obama liberal agenda,” Rubio said today, according to the Miami Herald. “I just didn’t realize I’d have to run against both of them at the same time.” (more)

Multiple sources are reporting that Gov. Charlie Crist, Florida Republican, will announce Thursday that he will pursue his state’s open Senate seat as an Independent, leaving the Republican Party. According to the Miami Herald and FOX News, campaign insiders have confirmed that Crist will make a public statement at a 5 p.m. event in St. Petersburg, Fla. (more)

Today, Ben Smith spent some time contemplating Marco Rubio’s bright sheen. “He’s already hearing every day (and brushing it off) that he should run for president in 2012,” Smith writes. “[A]t the inevitable moment in the cycle (as in every party, every cycle) when Republicans panic about their field of nominees, he’s likely to be uniquely attractive: young, conservative, Hispanic, and from a swing state besides.” (more)

Republican lawmakers pressed President Obama’s nominee for ambassador to El Salvador Wednesday over her former relationship with a Cuban national who may have had ties to Cuban intelligence. (more)

Days after dodging having to testify in a Florida House ethics investigation of his former protege, Ray Sansom, Republican Senate candidate Marco Rubio has another mini-scandal on his hands.  When Speaker of the Florida House from 2005 to 2008, the Republican Party of Florida (RPOF) provided Rubio with an American Express card that he admits using for personal expenses.  Rubio is accusing Gov. Charlie Crist’s campaign, currently trailing by 18 points in the polls, of leaking the expense information to the media. (more)

1.) Anticipating health care showdown, Republicans studying, slapping one another in the face — Congressional Republicans training for Thursday’s health care summit swallowed an extra raw egg and ran additional wind sprints upon learning Sunday night that Pres. Obama plans to further empower health care regulators. The Daily Caller’s Jon Ward reports that Obama plans to “include in a health care proposal new authority for the secretary of health and human services to veto insurance rate hikes that it deems excessive, and will create a federal panel that would set guidelines for health insurers to follow in determining their rates.” On Sunday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell went on the TV and asked a very interesting question: “If they are going to lay out the plan they want four days in advance, what are we discussing?” Answer: Open your mouth and close your eyes, and you will get a big surprise! (more)