A House panel has approved a bill limiting fees the Florida Attorney General's Office will pay when hiring private lawyers for state cases. ...more

March 24, 2009

Friday's Highlands Today editorial "Obama must stand up to his own party on budget," I believe, misrepresents the entire budget process and wrongly leaves the impression that it is the Democrats who did most of the wasteful spending. ...more

March 19, 2009

A House committee wants to require women in Florida to get an ultrasound before they can get an abortion. ...more

March 18, 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

John B. Mooney of Hudson says President Barack Obama's critics should come up with alternatives to his policy, not just complain. ...more

March 11, 2009

As countries around the world celebrate International Women's Day, the hunt is on in the U.S. Senate for 67 senators willing to vote for a global women's rights treaty. ...more

March 8, 2009

RECONCILING AFGHANISTAN: President Barack Obama declared that the United States is not winning the war in Afghanistan and opened the door to a reconciliation process in which the U.S. military would reach out to moderate elements of the Taliban, much as it did with Sunni militias in Iraq. ...more

March 8, 2009

I don't understand the delay in deporting all these illegal immigrants. I don't understand it, but I know what the problem is — the Democrats. ...more

March 4, 2009

Democrats controlling Congress are loosening restrictions on allowing people of Cuban descent to visit their relatives on the island. ...more

February 24, 2009

I am old enough to know that it is more important to observe what a leader, or anyone for that matter, does rather than what he says, especially for politicians. ...more

February 7, 2009