Can you see the similarity between President Obama's announcement to close Gitmo in one year and JFK's goal of having a man on the moon by the end of the decade? In both cases, neither could specifically say how it would be accomplished. They just had a sense that once they set an important goal and put the best in minds on achieving it, it would get done. Of course, they had preliminary discussions and studies and understood the main issues and possible solutions, but what they did, as executives, was set a goal, and expectation – a reasonable timetable. The Bush years will soon be viewed as an anomaly by the rest of the world, a brief period in our long history where we fell into the wrong hands, were overcome by fear, lost our moral compass and became decidedly un-American. ...more

January 27, 2009

NAFTA and the sweetheart deal given to China and India must be canceled, otherwise the American worker and the financial stability of this nation will never recover. China's population is about six times the population of the United States, as is India's. The wage scale in both China and India is almost that of a shoe shine boy. The different wage scales in past history has required tariffs so as not to destroy the economies of all nations. Tariff is not a dirty word. It has been used to correct disparities in wages for thousands of years. ...more

December 14, 2008

Socialist Brian Moore slated to appear on The Colbert Report. ...more

October 28, 2008

Brian Moore, the presidential candidate from Spring Hill out to prove that socialism isn't a dirty word, is slated today to face what could prove to be his toughest interviewer yet: Comedy's Central's Stephen Colbert. ...more

October 28, 2008

Editor's Note: This is the first in an occasional series about how Brandon area residents and businesses are coping with inflation, high gas prices and other effects of the nation's troubled economy. ...more

July 23, 2008

members of the Brandon Coupon Club share tips on how to stretch a grocery budget. ...more

July 21, 2008

Well, the news is out... ...more

May 24, 2008

After downplaying the risks for months, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Thursday it will rush to move Gulf Coast hurricane victims out of about 35,000 government-issued trailers because tests found dangerous levels of formaldehyde fumes. ...more

February 15, 2008

It's not often the anniversary of a tax is worth celebrating, but Hillsborough's ELAPP program is a rare exception. ...more

October 15, 2007