"The Bucs are on a bye! Now they can't lose!" Some variation of that declaration was virtually unavoidable for fans all last week. With the 35-7 British Browbeating still fresh and an 0-7 record a numbing reality, sarcastic mockery comes as no surprise. ...more

November 9, 2009

When Barack Obama took the first steps toward becoming president, Luis Rivera didn't trust him. ...more

January 19, 2009

And there was great celebration across the land that the eight years of famine and pestilence were at last at an end so that the people were filled with hope and noble expectations. The scribes ceased their ceaseless lamentations and were overcome by joy. And it was good. ...more

November 21, 2008

ctober is not Women's History Month, which is all the more reason to introduce readers to three underappreciated women and an inspiring 10-year-old girl who made history in Tampa. ...more

October 26, 2008

Excerpts from recent newspaper endorsements of the presidential candidates. ...more

October 17, 2008

The Oct. 2 exchange between vice presidential nominees Sarah Palin and Joe Biden might outdraw McCain and Obama. ...more

September 27, 2008

DNC Dismisses Florida Regarding Joseph Brown's column "Denying Vote Now Part of Party Policy" (Commentary, Jan. 27): ...more

February 3, 2008

Wanted: Military veterans or their representatives to recite the Pledge of Allegiance at county commission meetings. ...more

January 13, 2008

It was the plea heard round the world. "Don't tase me, bro" - shouted by a University of Florida student as officers removed him from a speech by Sen. John Kerry - tops this year's list of most memorable quotes, compiled by the editor of the Yale Book of Quotations. ...more

December 20, 2007