Common sense tells us a number of things about government from the local to the federal level. First, just a cursory review of our Founders' commentaries tell us they intended us to be a nation of people, not governments. Secondly, we can no longer afford our governments; the corollary of which is that we now can no longer even afford ourselves - given that feds have been engaging in pandering populism since the New Deal with a creative spending frenzy which has effectively bankrupt the taxpayer. (The cost of all our wars has been chicken feed compared to these spending programs.) ...more

March 27, 2009

The post office and a couple of abandoned storefronts are all that remain of the thriving downtown that anchored this community in northeast Pasco County. ...more

December 15, 2008

From the front porch of her tidy brick house, Betty Franklin can look across Hines Avenue to the rusting hulk of the former Cummer and Sons Cypress Co. sawmill, whose rhythms once ruled this corner of northeastern Pasco County. ...more

December 7, 2008

In a 1977 address to the nation, President Carter called our nation's energy crisis the 'moral equivalent of war.' Years later, Carter wrote in a magazine article that the attitude of the American people concerning conservation had changed: ...more

September 30, 2007