The bad news this Christmas continues to be a job shortage, but there is good reason to believe the worst is over. The economy is once again growing, sales of existing Florida homes were up last month, and most of the stimulus spending in the federal pipeline hasn't yet reached local job markets. ...more

December 24, 2009

Congressional officials confirm that an internal government report written in 2004 reveals that CIA interrogators threatened one of their prisoners with a gun and a power drill. ...more

August 22, 2009

Three Tampa schools made the top 100 of Newsweek magazine's best public high schools. ...more

June 10, 2009

"Populist anger in America is the anger of dispossession," writes Newsweek's Rick Perlstein. "The delinking of effort and reward has become all too manifest. That always makes Americans angry. We do not like to reward those who do not produce." ...more

March 26, 2009

Let me see if I have it right: Older Americans ought to keep working in order to lighten the burden of Social Security and assorted benefits on younger generations. ...more

March 22, 2009

President Barack Obama really likes to say, "Let me be clear," before he speaks pontifically about nothing specific nor in any way particularly informative. But now it's my turn to speak clearly — perhaps even with enough logic and fact to engage inquiring minds. ...more

February 20, 2009

Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told Newsweek-The Post's Lally Weymouth that the conflict in Gaza is not a fight of Israelis against Palestinians but a case in which Israel represents moderates in the region, including the Palestinian Authority. Here are some excerpts: ...more

January 12, 2009

TAMPA Tampa's Plant High School has much to brag about, but it's a school in Polk County that made U.S. News & World Report's list of the top 100 high schools in the United States. The International Baccalaureate School at Bartow High School is rated No. 7 in the nation. The top high school in the country is Thomas Jefferson High School for Sciences and Technology in Alexandria, Va., according to the report. ...more

December 5, 2008

It's a familiar pattern: When Republicans win dramatic victories, as they did in 1994 or 2004, we are told that the election results prove the country has "moved to the right." When Democrats win, however, we are told that the election revealed no ideological shift whatsoever or even that the public was somehow rejecting progressive ideology as it voted for progressive candidates. ...more

November 16, 2008

She's been compared to Jacqueline Kennedy, is every bit as high-powered as Hillary Rodham Clinton was and has praised Laura Bush's calm and rational approach to issues. ...more

November 10, 2008