Florida is the New Selma, and not for the first time. On a visit to Tallahassee Tuesday, Jesse Jackson "used the phrase 'Selma of our time'--a reference to civil rights marches in Alabama that helped prompt change in the 1960s," the Miami Herald reports.

By way of explanation, the paper quotes an earlier, ungrammatical comment the septuagenarian would-be provocateur made last month on CNN, where he "talked about an economic boycott to 'isolate Florida as a kind of apartheid state given this whole stand your ground...