I have never seen the dirty, desperate smear campaign that McCain-Palin are running. McCain says he would freeze spending for a year; let me translate that for you. It applies to Social Security for one thing. He has been itching to get his hands on our Social Security for years. He plans to cut our benefits, cut the cost of living, raise the retirement age, privatize accounts again and invest it in Wall Street, in spite of what's happening now. This is a page out of his pal Bush's playbook. While he's doing that he will be giving a tax break to his CEO buddies. This is a very wealthy man who relates to other wealthy people. ...more

October 16, 2008

A Texas jury acquitted a man accused of killing a boy who broke into his home looking for a snack - a case that sparked outrage in this border city, where many thought the man should not have even been charged. ...more

September 28, 2008

The nomination of Barack Obama to be president was a cruel hoax to play on the Democratic faithful. ...more

September 21, 2008

John Tischner of Dunedin decries handling of death of police dog. ...more

August 2, 2008

An innocent reference to an astronomical feature was misconstrued as a racial insult in Dallas last week, which is funny, except that an offended official's continued indignity has created humorless ill will. ...more

July 18, 2008

What Hillsborough County Jail Deputy Charlette Marshall-Jones did last January was an outrage. While searching a partially paralyzed man during booking, she dumped Brian Sterner out of his wheelchair, as casually as if he was a bag of dirty laundry. The Sheriff's Office quickly and rightly charged her with abusing the disabled, a third-degree felony that could bring up to a five-year sentence. ...more

July 8, 2008

I'm disappointed, but that's not why I'm angry. I don't think Hillary Clinton lost just because of sexism. I think the part that has angered women so much was the sexism by the media, in particular, and the lack of outrage voiced by everyone concerned, especially those in the Democratic Party, especially leadership. ...more

June 15, 2008

I am writing in reference to an article in the Highlands Today, May 30: "The first chop of Highlands County's budget-cutting axe fell Thursday. It fell on the proverbial neck of Highlands County Sports Complex, manger Rocky Ellingsworth." This is an outrage! The Highlands County Commission all but promised citizens that the sports complex would be proactively managed, and that a manager would be responsible for keeping the operational costs of the sports complex to a minimum. Let me remind you that about 50 percent of all operational costs were to be recovered from user fees and recreational concession stand profits. While as a taxpayer, I feel that the sports complex was built with little community support, and with little support from taxpayers, the "powers that be" decided that it was a worthy project and spent the money anyway. Yes, a large grant paid for a majority of the construction project. ...more

June 2, 2008

Myanmar's ruling junta, faced with global outrage about its low-key response to last month's deadly cyclone, said Sunday that recovery from the catastrophe will be speedy and extolled the country's leaders for their actions in the crisis. ...more

June 2, 2008

Incensed over what they say is a clear lack of remorse on the part of the family of Nick Bollea, the parents of a man injured in a car crash caused by Bollea has condemned the "outrageous conduct" exhibited by the family during recent jail conversations. ...more

May 28, 2008