Sometimes I sit back and think there is no hope for mankind. The media reports daily about the atrocities we inflict on each other, and I shake my head in disbelief. ...more

September 22, 2008

It looks like Hillsborough County's public art program might be on the chopping block. ...more

July 30, 2008

It looks like Hillsborough County's public art program might be on the chopping block. ...more

July 30, 2008

Sometimes two things look pretty much the same, like a diamond and a cubic zirconia. ...more

May 28, 2008

Many industries wish to buy out their employees who are making a living wage, and to fill the many thousands of job buyouts with "slave labor" at half the living wage. ...more

February 21, 2008

Illegals Drain Economy After reading the letter from Mr. Deron Mikal, I have concluded that he does not care at all for the American worker. All he seems interested in getting something cheap. Based on his way of thinking, why should we have any labor in this country? Let's just outsource it to someone who can do it cheaper. ...more

December 26, 2007

The House on Tuesday agreed to name the largest room in the new Capitol Visitor Center in honor of the slaves who helped build the U.S. Capitol. Under the measure, the room would be called Emancipation Hall. ...more

November 14, 2007

LAKE PLACID — It's still an unsolved mystery, what happened that night in 1997 when a call came to the Highlands County Sheriff's Office. Lt. John Chess recalls, dimly because it was 10 years ago. His recollection and the murder files, he says, don't match author John Bowe's book, "Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy." (Hardcover, 336 pages. Price: $25.95) But Chess agrees with the premise of the book, that indentured servitude certainly does exist today, because he's a veteran police officer. "This has been going on for years," Chess said. ...more

September 30, 2007