I wonder how many people in this country, or the world for that matter, really think we will make any kind of a strong financial recovery without coal and oil? Our manufacturing plants and all of our industries, as well as our small businesses need an ample, dependable and reasonably priced supply of coal and oil, as clean as possible, preferably from the U.S. Wind, sun and battery needs to continue to be developed. I wonder, though, how many windmills, solar panels and batteries would be required to run a car manufacturing plant, along with the tires, glass and steel necessary - once, all very successful; once all very successful in this country. Pollution you say? Are you saying China, North Korea, South Korea, India and Iran, etc. are running their manufacturing plants without coal and oil? Our coal and oil would be used much cleaner in this country. Pollution you say? Ours would be cleaner and doesn't all pollution go into the same sky? ...more

November 22, 2009

William "Charles" Wilson had already dropped out of school and was an 18-year-old ironworker when he was drafted and sent to Vietnam in 1967. The Army made him a demolition expert and sent him out to blow up bridges and enemy tunnels, but he never got a high school diploma. ...more

March 25, 2009

I read that that President Felipe Calderón of Mexico is complaining that the U.S. is not doing enough to stop the flow of illegal weapons into his country. Perhaps he should consider putting up a fence at the border and plugging cross-border tunnels used by smugglers. ...more

March 3, 2009

Some of them are said to be big enough to accommodate railroad cars. They may reach a depth of 50 feet, and are reported to be equipped with cables and electric motors that move food, fuel and probably some of the heaviest rockets that Hamas aims at Israel. ...more

January 12, 2009

10 to 30 Number of main tunnel shafts thought to run under the Gaza-Egyptian border at any one time ...more

January 12, 2009

Pasco County sheriff's deputies are searching for two divers who went missing Tuesday at School Sink in Hudson. ...more

November 12, 2008

Gaza's smugglers are going legit: Owners of the scores of tunnels running under the Gaza-Egypt border have registered with the Hamas authorities, pledged to pay workers' compensation and hooked up their operations to the electricity network. ...more

October 9, 2008

TAMPA - One of the two University of South Florida students recently indicted on federal explosives charges has refused to wear his jail identification wristband and is being denied privileges until he cooperates, jail officials say. ...more

September 12, 2007