Earl Column Refreshing Re: Fran Earl's weekly column. ...more

May 13, 2008

A year ago last March, the Republican National Committee had fun sending someone in a "pander bear" suit to crash a Sen. Hillary Clinton fundraiser at a Washington hotel. ...more

May 4, 2008

A year ago last March, the Republican National Committee had fun sending someone in a "pander bear" suit to crash a Hillary Clinton fundraiser at a Washington hotel. ...more

May 4, 2008

Courtney Clark and Stephanie Bikowski have shared a lifetime of special moments. ...more

February 13, 2008

Jason Smith of New Port Richey did not like the "hard-right slant" of op-ed page of Feb. 6 prints editions of The Suncoast News. ...more

February 9, 2008

Chalk another one up for the old folks. And the veterans. ...more

February 5, 2008

Democratic Sen. Barack Obama said Wednesday that a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidency would be a step back to the past, turning her husband's image of a bridge to the future against her. The former first lady decried the tenor of his comments in an interview with The Associated Press. ...more

January 31, 2008

Let's Make Some Deals From the Chicago Tribune: The president at the microphone Monday night for his final State of the Union address? Last month, 32 percent of the Americans surveyed told Gallup pollsters they approve of his performance. Those who disapprove: 65 percent. And the members of Congress arrayed before him? Their approval rating is 23 percent. That's better than the Ebola virus, but when their disapproval rating is 71 percent, you're nobody's heroes. ...more

January 30, 2008

TARPON SPRINGS – A memorial service and Divine Liturgy will take place, locally, for the spiritual leader of the Greek Orthodox Church, Archbishop Christodoulos, who died of cancer Monday at his home in Athens. He was 69. ...more

January 28, 2008

This week the TV news showed us images of George Bush, president of the United States and supposed leader of the free world, carrying a Saudi sword while dancing with a member of the Saudi royal family. For me, this ultimate indignity on the part of our president was reminiscent of a drunken Boris Yeltsin, leader of a failed Soviet Union playing "would you like to lead a band ?" Doubtless George, wearing his now famous smirk, saw no loss of dignity in playing the court jester for his Arab friends, perhaps to win them over to his pathetic plea for OPEC to sell more oil to assist the U.S. economy, one of their biggest customers as Bush reminded them. Their curt response was they will increase their sales when the market warrants it, thereby putting Bush in his place and inferentially reminding him that the OPEC cartel does not exist to do the U.S. favors. Its ability to squeeze the U.S. in a time of economic crisis, despite Bush's supposed generosity in approving a large sale of sophisticated arms to Saudi Arabia, is a blunt reminder of who is in the economically dominant position, in U.S.- Saudi relations. Way to go George! ...more

January 20, 2008