Even though he created a stir last week by advocating ending a moratorium on offshore oil drilling, John McCain supports continuing the current ban on drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, his campaign advisers said this week. ...more

June 26, 2008

TAMPA - Even though he created a stir last week by advocating ending a moratorium on offshore oil drilling, John McCain supports continuing the current ban on drilling in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, his campaign advisers said this week. ...more

June 25, 2008

The massive Everglades purchase that Gov. Charlie Crist announced Tuesday drew cheers from Florida's environmental community, which has skewered him over the past week for reversing his position on offshore oil drilling. ...more

June 25, 2008

Blaming environmentalists for high energy prices, never mind the evidence, has been a hallmark of the Bush administration. ...more

June 24, 2008

Dean Johnson wrote a letter blaming liberal Democrats for the rising price of gasoline. This is an example of the blind partisanship that is partly responsible for the trouble we're in. At least since the '70s, we've known that foreign oil would be a problem for us. But as Fox News pointed out, the first offshore oil ban was passed during the Reagan Administration. Then the senior President Bush, followed by Clinton and the current President Bush, all issued executive orders banning offshore drilling. Jeb Bush, meanwhile, prevailed on his brother to re-purchase existing offshore oil leases in 2002, shutting down any chance that there would be offshore drilling in Florida. ...more

June 23, 2008

As gigs go in this troubled economy, it's not so bad being a profoundly unpopular lame-duck president. ...more

June 22, 2008

As gigs go in this troubled economy, it's not so bad being a profoundly unpopular lame-duck president. ...more

June 21, 2008

We have taken Charlie Crist to task for successfully campaigning for the governor's mansion on a pledge to continue the policies of his predecessor, Jeb Bush, and then breaking that promise more than once. We have no problem with Crist having his own ideas on how to address the state's problems. We just thought he should have been a bit more forthcoming when he was running for governor about the various ways he was planning to tack away from the course Bush followed. ...more

June 21, 2008

A Beach Over A State Regarding "As Gas Prices Gush, Drilling Debate Flows" (front page, June 14): ...more

June 21, 2008

It's very easy, in our chaotic world, to lose track. Did you know, for instance, that "ER" is still on television? That "The Phantom of the Opera" is still on Broadway? That Hugh Hefner is still dating? ...more

June 21, 2008