Former Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge was widely ridiculed for color-coding the nation's terror-alert status. The Obama administration wants to color-code the economy. ...more

December 10, 2008

Former Hernando High baseball player Carl Whitehouse is in a lot of ways just like any other person. ...more

November 27, 2008

Former U.S. Sens. John Danforth of Missouri and Warren Rudman of New Hampshire, two old lions of the Republican Party, recently have re-emerged on the national scene saying they want to promote "public confidence in the outcome" of the Nov. 4 election. ...more

October 18, 2008

Former Energy Department official Joseph Romm (writing in Gristmill) concisely answers the offshore drilling hoax: "... Lifting the moratorium on offshore drilling can't possibly reduce gasoline prices. After all, two years ago, we opened most of the Gulf of Mexico -- with its estimated 41 billion barrels of oil -- and oil prices then doubled." ...more

August 1, 2008

Former Tampa Bay Buccaneer quarterback Vinny Testaverde has been cited for clear-cutting more than 40 trees on his lakefront property. ...more

June 13, 2008

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee shredded his nice-guy image with a less-than-subtle effort to generate racial resentment during the presidential primary campaign in South Carolina last week. ...more

January 22, 2008

Former Broward County Sheriff Ken Jenne's descent from political power to federal prison is one of those sad tales that happens when people in public office come to believe the rules don't apply to them. ...more

November 17, 2007