The system for funding Social Security is "a disgrace" because it forces young Americans to pay into a program that is unlikely to benefit them in its current form, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain said this week, wading into politically touchy territory. ...more

July 10, 2008

Seeking any edge in the upcoming presidential, state and local elections, Democrats and Republicans are trying to register and motivate a new pool of potential Florida voters: former felons. ...more

June 13, 2008

Who is Barack Obama and from whence has he come? Obama was born 1961 in Hawaii, graduated Columbia University in 1983 and Harvard University in 1991 (magna cum laude). At Harvard he was elected the first African-American editor of the Harvard Law Review, a high honor indeed. Although his educational honors would have brought him an excellent position and salary, he chose to work for only $8,000 per year as a community organizer after some time at a law firm as a civil rights attorney and organized voter registration for Bill Clinton's candidacy for president. ...more

June 12, 2008

Who is Barack Obama and from whence has he come? ...more

June 11, 2008

The crowded Nov. 4 ballot will include a measure that has more to do with fish and wildlife than Democrats and Republicans. ...more

May 22, 2008

Profits from government-sponsored mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, instead of taxpayers, would back up a home loan rescue for up to 500,000 strapped borrowers under a plan approved by a key Senate committee Tuesday to pull the nation out of a housing crisis. ...more

May 21, 2008

At the center of the housing crisis, we're told, is someone called the "predatory lender." Such is the myth driving the housing debate in Washington, where both Democrats and Republicans are rushing toward a mortgage bailout. ...more

May 3, 2008

Though this country has made great strides in overcoming racial prejudice and stereotyping groups of people, those things still exist, especially amongst the poor, uneducated and rural Americans. Sebring is rural America and it exists right here in our home town, like it or not. ...more

February 21, 2008

How many trailers are involved? The Federal Emergency Management Agency says 25,162 trailers are occupied in Louisiana, 10,362 in Mississippi. The trailers were made by several companies. Some were made specially for FEMA. ...more

February 15, 2008

WASHINGTON Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee kept a tight grip on their contradictory accounts of illegal drug use in a dramatic showdown Wednesday before a congressional panel whose 40 Democrats and Republicans seemed to line up and take sides on a partisan basis. ...more

February 14, 2008