One of our most distinguished contributors to the Hernando Today letters to the editor posed a most significant question today, asking, "Why do Elected Officials refuse to listen to us?" ...more

October 24, 2009

It is absolutely unbelievable how dumb the Obama administration thinks the American public is. They put forth a plan to buy the "toxic assets" of banks, which they now call "legacy assets," and try to convince us that this will be done by the private sector. ...more

March 29, 2009

This is in response to "Republicans Criticizing Obama Have Chutzpah." Gabriel Read, the author, selectively chose some facts while blatantly disregarding others. For example, the first stimulus bill was crafted by Pelosi, Reid, Franks and Dodd; Democrats all. In their haste to pass this stupid piece of legislation, they gave complete digressions and power to the greatest ponzi scheme con artist of all, Hank Paulson. ...more

March 25, 2009

Our Congress had a field day this week grilling the CEO of AIG, Edward Liddy, and making hay about bonuses that the company paid to some of its executives from bailout money. ...more

March 21, 2009

Firearms Foresight While it seems other readers found irony in placing a large ad for gun sales in a paper whose headline included at least two horrific examples of gun violence, I found the ad timely and appropriate. ...more

March 16, 2009

Years ago I made the mistake of declaring income I received from a financial investment as dividends. A year or two later I was advised by the IRS that this income should have been reported as interest, and I had to pay the difference, plus interest. ...more

March 4, 2009

Donald L. Johnson of Holiday dismisses federal stimulus as a "pork-barrel Dumb-ocrat bill." ...more

February 18, 2009

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has been wheeled out of the Capitol on a stretcher. ...more

January 20, 2009

Under mounting pressure to act, the Bush administration said Friday it was ready to step in and prevent the U.S. auto industry from collapsing after the Senate refused to pass a rescue bill endorsed by the White House and congressional Democrats. The most obvious source of help was the Wall Street bailout fund. ...more

December 12, 2008

Racing to seal a deal with the White House, Democratic congressional leaders dispatched aides Saturday to draft an emergency $15 billion aid package to pull Detroit's Big Three automakers from the brink of collapse. ...more

December 7, 2008