By Rand Paul
Obama acts as though we no longer have a Constitution
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Florida homeowners who live just three miles from where a sinkhole swallowed a sleeping man a month ago have now been evacuated, after the walls of their duplex began to crack and the floor buckled.

When the Tampa Bay Lightning earned the right to pick first overall in the 2008 draft, "Seen Stamkos?" billboards went up all around the area. It was no secret that Steven Stamkos was their guy, set to become the face of the franchise.

Brooks Laich has been cleared for contact, but it's still uncertain how long it will take the forward to make his season debut as he battles a groin injury.

Fans at Tampa Bay Times Forum serenaded Alex Ovechkin with boos every time he touched the puck Saturday night. Loud and drawn out in the first period as Ovechkin was firing away on the power play, they fell almost nonexistent the rest of the way.

In an odd bit of serendipity, Tom Poti on Saturday found himself in the same place he was two years and seven days earlier.

Florida's first dog has been booted from the governor's mansion — a relocation that sent several media outlets into a tizzy, prompting some to tie Gov. Rick Scott's re-election hopes to the animal's disappearance and others to float conspiracy theories.

The professional wrestler known as Hulk Hogan has filed a lawsuit against the Tampa, Fla.-based Laser Spine Institute, saying the clinic performed unnecessary surgeries that damaged his career.
Wrestler Hulk Hogan has filed a lawsuit against the Tampa-based Laser Spine Institute, saying the clinic did unnecessary surgeries that damaged his career.

Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist's coming-out party as a Democrat moved to Washington on Wednesday, as the once-rising Republican star testified at a Capitol Hill hearing on voting problems in the 2012 election.

Jill Kelley's climb to the top of Tampa's social ladder may be as spectacular as her fall from it.
The on-air spectacle of Fox News analyst Karl Rove publicly questioning his network's call of the election for Barack Obama happened because Rove and Fox's decision desk both had pieces to a puzzle that the other wasn't aware of, a network executive said Wednesday.

Sporadic problems were reported Tuesday at polling places around the country, including a confrontation in Pennsylvania involving Republican inspectors over access to some polls and a last-minute court fight in Ohio over election software.

The 2012 presidential election is one of the most momentous crossroads in U.S. history. As Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, the GOP's vice-presidential nominee, stated in his Thursday debate against Vice President Joe Biden, the outcome on Election Day will determine "what kind of country we are going to give our kids."
In the aftermath of Clint Eastwood's perplexing and ridiculed "invisible Obama" monologue at the Republican National Convention, conservative blogger Moe Lane summed up what many on both sides of the political divide are thinking.

It's hard to know what Vermont did to deserve the worst seats at the Republican National Convention.