As some who also has no health insurance, and who believes that the government should do something to reform it, I am, on the other hand, somewhat disturbed by the attitude of people like Colleen Kasperek who is willing to take any kind of government health care system including this huge 2,000-page bill, which I doubt anyone in Congress knows what is in it. ...more

November 22, 2009

Just when I was thought we had heard the last of him since the 2008 election, the ever-bumptious John Russell rears up again this time at the Tea Party Rally in Brooksville. ...more

November 15, 2009

After reading Peter Stathis's letter, I realize that I owe an apology to the right wingers out there. ...more

October 28, 2009

Word games Gail Leatherwood and Peter Stathis's recent letters both alluded to the word "socialist" in titles of countries that have been traditional enemies of the United States, such as the Soviet Socialist Republic, thereby implying how evil any political affiliation with the word socialist or socialism is. ...more

May 16, 2009

These past few days watching the news programs covering the events up in Washington, D.C., I heard something that should scare everyone. ...more

March 28, 2009

After reading Dallas Dunlap's letter this past Sunday, I continue to be amazed at the hypocrisy by some who after nearly eight years railing against deficit spending when George Bush was in office don't have a problem with it now that Barack Obama is in office. ...more

March 18, 2009

In his March 13 letter, Peter Stathis accuses me of saying deficit spending is bad when Republicans do it, but OK when President Barack Obama does it. Not true. ...more

March 15, 2009

This past Wednesday I read with interest the letter from Dallas Dunlap, and halfway through it I was struck by something he said: "Complaints about pork and rising deficits miss the point. To the economy, it doesn't much matter how the money is spent." ...more

March 13, 2009

In regards to Deron Mikal's recent letter in which he praises the ACLU; if only I could share Mr. Mikal's enthusiasm. ...more

March 11, 2009

According to Frances Earl's column, now that Barack Obama has been elected president, all will be right with the world. The terrorists will stop attacking us. The world will love us. Jobs will come flooding back to the United States. Everyone will be able to buy a house, and everyone's child will be able to go to college. ...more

November 8, 2008