WASHINGTON (AP) — A seemingly divided Supreme Court wrestled today with whether teenagers can be locked away forever for their crimes. ...more

November 9, 2009

At his invitation I re-read Jim Gries' letter twice with my reading glasses to make sure I didn't miss a punctuation mark which may have slanted my interpretation of his context. I still found it arrogant and insulting and pointedly left leaning. Picture this, Jim, me standing here with my right hand raised and my left hand on the Bible and my swearing that I haven't listened to Rush Limbaugh, Kieth Oberman or Chris Matthews once in the last six or seven years and I never even heard of "Local Bob" whoever he is. I confess I have watched the Sean Hannity TV show two or three times in the last five years, and you are right ... he is a screechingly repetitious bloviator, but amazingly, listening to him did not cause my gray matter to turn into a gelatinous blob and come oozing out of my cranial orifaces! Maybe they all are bloviators. Who cares. It's their constitutional right to be, just as it's yours to disparage them for it, and mine to flip it back at you. I don't care for the opinions of any of them; but I guess because you include Chris Mathews that makes your attitude fair and balanced. Neither do I really care much about who is on your list so much as I do that you have a list in the first place. ...more

November 6, 2009

I firmly believe that consumers should have the right to buy and consume raw milk as a basic freedom right and a constitutional right to choose for ourselves. ...more

June 11, 2009

No one wants to see the return of the day when Florida businesses were bombarded by crippling workers' compensation claims. But reforms adopted by the Legislature in 2003, as the state Supreme Court found, went too far. ...more

March 4, 2009

Florida House Speaker Ray Sansom said Gov. Charlie Crist should suggest ways to offset any items he vetoes in a deficit-elimination package when he submits his recommendations for the next state budget. ...more

January 22, 2009

The criminal contempt case against Sami Al-Arian may collapse because of the actions of the federal prosecutor who brought the charges in Virginia, two law professors say. ...more

December 21, 2008

In 1892, a Massachusetts court ruled that a policeman's speech rights had not been violated by a law forbidding certain political activities by officers. State Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote: "The petitioner may have a constitutional right to talk politics, but he has no constitutional right to be a policeman." ...more

November 29, 2008

For the past six weeks, Seminole resident John Piazza said he has had to buy plenty of John McCain signs to replace the ones that have gone missing from his front yard. ...more

November 3, 2008

High school government teacher Gordon Johnston said he was fighting for his constitutional right against unreasonable government searches when he filed suit to stop pat-downs for fans attending Buccaneers games at Raymond James Stadium. ...more

October 11, 2008

Police cannot stop and search people based solely on anonymous tips, the Florida Supreme Court affirmed Thursday, but the justices said that does not mean officers cannot respond to those kinds of reports. ...more

September 19, 2008