It seems like only yesteryear, although it was in the early 50's, when Firstwife and I flew via the since-deceased Pan American World Airways from Philadelphia to Los Angeles.
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The events of the past week speak volumes of what we are facing in the Middle East. I don't know how many Korans were accidently burned but it really doesn't matter. Te be sure it wasn't done out of any disrespect for the Koran but rather in the vein of destroying books that had already been defiled by Afghan detainees with messages that could prove harmful to the safety of our troops.
Because of the current and growing interest in whom might be the next president of the U.S. of A., we often hear about "planks" in one or the other candidate's political "platforms."
The kerfuffle over taking down fences around four tennis courts nestled in a tiny downtown Brooksville park should really take only a couple minutes to solve.
A recent Washington Post story was devoted to exposing the outrageous sums of money paid to defend former officials at Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac.
While the cancer-stricken socialist president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, keeps dreaming up ways to remain president for life, a determined group of Venezuelans in South Florida is using democratic methods to try to prevent it.
Sometimes little things speak volumes about the hopeless divide that confronts our country and our politicians. Ethics investigations are but a microcosm of the gamesmanship involved and the role of the mainstream media.
More than 50,000 fans are expected in Orlando as the city prepares to host its second NBA All-Star Game on Sunday – a matchup that will be televised in more than 200 countries in 40 languages.
One of the questions posed to the republican presidential candidates during the debate on Wednesday was about women in combat. The responses left much to be desired so I will add my two cents.
Somewhere between the first of February and April 14th, about a third of us drag ourselves to the desk or kitchen table, where we begin the onerous task of wading through several dozens pages of financial records and legalistic gobble de gook about how to pay income taxes.
With the din of another presidential election overwhelming all other would-be news, it's not easy to be among the uninterested. It isn't just that you're barraged with details of an election whose outcome doesn't matter to you – it's that the outcome actually doesn't matter.
With only three weeks left in the 2012 legislative session and the Florida Senate preparing to debate the state's $70 billion budget, the news this week is focused not on major policy decisions, but on who will become president of the Senate in 2014 and 2016.
Americans are losing the understanding of which priorities are important to their children and them. In this new millennium we have become obsessed with material wealth. The "its all about money era" has led us down the path of devaluating the importance of man's character.
Robert Waterhouse met death here last week as he had lived life: cruel to the core and proud of it.
Who wouldn't want to live in the Hernando County described by the company looking for the best candidates to become the new county administrator?
The military veterans were angry, and made their feelings known at a recent school board meeting in Flagler County.
Last time we left off with mentioning the $1 trillion deficit in the president's proposed Budget beginning Oct., 1, 2012.
BY JOE KLOCK, Klockworks
This letter is in response to Randy Brooks' letter to the editor titled "The truth behind AP exams." First, let me say how proud I am that one of Central High School's students has the grit and determination to use this medium to express his displeasure with, what he believes, to be an injustice in our manner of operating.
Obviously when the presenter of the budget does not really want it to be passed it then becomes no budget.
Yippee.
Most business people are more familiar with KISS, an acronym meaning to "Keep it simple, Stupid." This originated as a principle of systems design, but then was co-opted by sales trainers as a sales tactic, meaning don't make a sales presentation more complicated than it needs to be. Less is better. But its original meaning as an engineering concept is a better starting point to aid us in an analysis of how and why the role and function of our 21st century government eclipses the intellectual grasp of even well-educated citizens.
This proposed budget for 2013 of $3.8 trillion is a farce. Sen. Reid, the senate majority leader, already said that he does not intend to bring it up for a vote. Last year when he brought the president's budget up for a vote it failed 97-0.
Seen from a certain altitude — that of Washington wits far removed from most crises of family life — the emerging Republican campaign against birth control is merely a weapon in the party's campaign against the new health care law.
Rarely do bills that reach the Florida Senate floor go down to defeat. By the time leaders schedule a vote, they can generally guarantee the outcome. So when they scheduled a vote this week to privatize state prisons in 18 South Florida counties, those of us fighting this deeply flawed plan caught our breaths. By our reckoning, the Senate was tied, 20-20.
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