The current health care bill presented by Nancy Pelosi is quite a beast in itself, almost 2,000 pages. ...more

November 5, 2009

Not long ago we had a bunch of aspiring pols begging for our votes and promising to give us the world in a hand basket if we would vote for them, right? Well guess what? We voted them into the place of their dreams so wouldn't it seem fair that in exchange for our little efforts, some of them should now come out of hiding and listen to us poor saps that listened to them? My question is this, why is it that when I look at the daily market reports on the price of oil, I see it dropping almost every day, but when I go to fill up at our local pumps the price jumps a little bit almost every day! Something is wrong in Denmark, was an old saying. Something is wrong in Highlands County should be the new saying. ...more

February 7, 2009

I didn't vote for Barack Obama. ...more

January 21, 2009

BRADENTON - A 70-year-old woman said she chased away a man trying to rob her Sunday after telling him to "go to hell in a hand basket." ...more

June 23, 2008

BRADENTON - A 70-year-old woman chased away a man trying to rob her today by telling him to go to hell, the Manatee County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

June 22, 2008