Memorial Day is upon us again, while our American troops wage war on two fronts. We live in strange times here in the United States. ...more

May 9, 2008

the scourge of earmarked, pork-barrel spending in Congress - across the Alabama River on the Gee's Bend ferry, to one of his old Navy posts at Cecil Field in Jacksonville and to the Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, Pa., where he marveled at the new technology. ...more

May 4, 2008

Amendment One, the package of tax cuts voters added to the state constitution last month, was oversold. ...more

February 10, 2008

The spiraling growth of Medicare and the high cost of renewing President Bush's tax cuts are squeezing popular education, health, housing and anti-poverty programs in the budget blueprint he will hand to lawmakers Monday. ...more

February 3, 2008

President Bush's final speech on the state of the union is a history lesson in why his popularity has sagged. ...more

January 30, 2008

The Bush administration and the Republican Congress of 2001 buried the economy with the Alternative Minimum Tax. The first thing they did was to ditch pay-as-you-go to make the Medicare private prescription plan seem affordable in 2003. Shortly after massive tax breaks were given to oil and pharmaceutical companies. According to OMB.org: "Those tax cuts were designed to increase the amount of taxes paid through the A.M.T. The tax policy center, which has written extensively about A.M.T., notes that tax cuts enacted between 200l-2006 have more than doubled the projected share of tax payers who will face the A.M.T. in 2010 (from 16 to 33.6 percent). ...more

January 25, 2008

Gov. Charlie Crist unveiled an ambitious education budget proposal last week to help win support for the property tax amendment that is on the Jan. 29 ballot. ...more

January 23, 2008

The tax changes on the ballot with the presidential primary are a stew of legislative leftovers sure to give the state heartburn. ...more

January 14, 2008

What's In Amendment One •Doubling the homestead exemption for primary homeowners to $50,000 ...more

January 12, 2008

Long before most people knew of Mike Huckabee, Fred Thompson expected to capture the support of the Republican Party's evangelical wing. ...more

January 11, 2008