The bailout bill has cost us too much already. At a time when the country is in debt into the trillions of dollars, the addition of a few hundred billion is not going to exacerbate our problems is it? Or is it? We already owe our soul to the foreigners. ...more

November 28, 2008

Holiday deals may be hot, but retailers can still expect the worst Black Friday since the early 1970s, according to a University of Central Florida economist. ...more

November 27, 2008

TAMPA The holiday deals may be hot, but that won't be enough to convince consumers to spend like retailers hope they will, according to a University of Central Florida economist. This week's Black Friday will be a disappointing one for the retail industry, as overall consumer spending continues its downward slide this quarter. This rate of decline has not been seen in Florida since 1974, said economist Sean Snaith. ...more

November 26, 2008

None of the four giant gaseous planets are remotely habitable or remotely like Earth. But they raise the possibility of others more hospitable. ...more

November 14, 2008

This is the most critical election in my lifetime. ...more

November 1, 2008

End Of An Era When the residents of Lexington fired on the British troops, there was no appreciation for the moment defining the nation's birth pangs. Yet it did. And when "the shot heard round the world" was iconized, that space and its many actors gained immortality. ...more

October 19, 2008

WASHINGTON - Less than a week after the federal government had to bail out American International Group Inc., the company sent executives on a $440,000 retreat to a posh California resort, lawmakers investigating the company's meltdown said Tuesday. ...more

October 7, 2008

The Crash of 2008, which is now wiping out trillions of dollars of our people's wealth, is, like the Crash of 1929, likely to mark the end of one era and the onset of another. ...more

September 23, 2008

Alarmed by the sharply eroding confidence in the nation's two largest mortgage finance companies, the Bush administration Sunday asked Congress to approve a sweeping rescue package that would give officials the power to inject billions of federal dollars into the beleaguered companies through investments and loans. ...more

July 14, 2008

Richard Allard of New Port Richey says we could save a lot of gasoline by ending Saturday mail deliveries by the U.S. Postal Service. ...more

June 14, 2008