Keith Olbermann is ready to go to jail over it. Howard Dean is assaulting the White House over it. "It" is the individual mandate, the source of rare cross-ideological agreement in the health care debate. ...more

December 23, 2009

Please understand; most of us are okay. It is a small minority that disrupts our society, but when we witness wrongdoing and do nothing, we are also guilty. For example: my generation, the children of the Greatest Generation, pursued pot, marijuana, which led to cocaine and LSD, etc (not all of us.) We thought nothing of it, not conscious these drugs just don't go away. We accumulated and passed them on to future generations, not considering that years later the results would become evident, the amount and substance ingested dictating the degree of results. ...more

December 23, 2009

Blaise Ingoglia's guest column last week in Hernando Today, which was critical of third parties for undermining the two major parties' future existence, was laughable. ...more

December 16, 2009

So what do you know about the health care bill? Unless you've been reading the legislation, you've probably been depending on talking heads, with their own agendas, to explain it. Here are some things to consider about the health care legislation, according to the Associated Press. ...more

November 29, 2009

Not everyone in Highlands County opposes everything our president is trying to accomplish. There are many of us in this county who understand the significance this health reform bill holds for the many residents in this county. Many families in our community will benefit from this reform yet these same people are the ones watching extreme conservative television and being spoon-fed rhetoric nonsense. When we free ourselves from the fear that controls us we can think clearly about what our options are. When we shed our prejudices we can work together to restore this county's greatness and return to a time when our middle class was valued and valuable. ...more

November 11, 2009

Oh so sad, but oh so real. The middle class American is disappearing. ...more

October 30, 2009

Authorities from Georgia to Texas say theyhave little to go on in the search for a University of Georgia professor suspected of three killings. ...more

April 26, 2009

Jennie Usberghi of New Port Richey says the United Auto Workers and its president are being unfairly blamed for the plight of the U.S. auto industry. ...more

April 15, 2009

The disconnect between the responsible citizen and our elected officials is the most blatant when we consider the economic fix we are in and a quick fix we could all benefit from. The basic problem will never be resolved by continuing to Band-aid the symptoms. ...more

March 26, 2009

President Barack Obama laid out his first budget plan Thursday predicting a stunning federal deficit of $1.75 trillion this year - nearly four times last year's record - and asking Congress to raise taxes on the wealthy to stem that flood of red ink while still moving the country toward guaranteed health care for all. ...more

February 27, 2009