Recent letters to the Tribune have dealt with socialized health care. The most amusing was the "Letter Of The Day" submitted by a Canadian woman who by her own admission spends a great deal of time getting "free" care. Ailments included two knee replacements, bowel surgery, ankle surgery and numerous other problems. I wonder what kind of program the Canadian government has to try to keep people healthy. ...more

March 16, 2009

I am outraged by the recent "solutions" proposed by our "leaders" in Washington to the financial crisis. Unelected bureaucrats and several shameful congressmen have staged a dangerous coup. They have hijacked our wonderful democratic and free market institutions and debased them into socialist nightmares that would make Hugo Chavez and Vladimir Putin blush. If that doesn't alarm you, then try this: Over the past three months, two unelected bureaucrats have decided to spend $1 trillion (at least) of your money to prop up their former colleagues or future consulting gigs. ...more

September 23, 2008

Much Too Compassionate I would like to congratulate all of the responsible taxpayers, homeowners and businesses who are going to bail out reckless mortgage companies, real estate speculators and home buyers who caused the mortgage crisis. Isn't it admirable that the federal government has decided to reward deplorable financial behavior for the greater good? ...more

August 5, 2008

Sometimes political parties play to type so perfectly that it's almost charming. Consider the completely predictable responses of Democrats and Republicans to the record prices of oil. ...more

August 3, 2008

Just two weeks before the start of the Olympics, Iraq was told Thursday it's not welcome in Beijing because of a political feud in Baghdad that angered the games' guardians and exiled a country that arrived to a roaring ovation at the opening ceremony four years ago. ...more

July 25, 2008

Regarding "Fannie, Freddie Rescue Planned" (front page, July 14): The recent actions by our lawmakers in Washington have me worried me that we are headed down a dark path of government interference. While loaning money to the Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac is one thing, to actually have the U.S. government become stockholders is clearly another. ...more

July 16, 2008

Glen Lee Powell left his mother's house in Brandon armed with his belief that the government and police were interfering with his freedom. ...more

May 8, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - Pinellas County deputies shot and killed an armed man this afternoon after he fired at them at the St. Petersburg Courthouse. At 1:10 p.m., a male suspect, identified as Glen Lee Powell of Brandon, came through the courthouse's west entrance, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said. ...more

May 7, 2008

It's sad to see that some members of Florida's Legislature aren't focusing on more weighty projects. ...more

January 29, 2008

Government, Do Your Job Regarding "Merry Christmas, Now Get To Work" (Our Opinion, Dec. 21): ...more

December 29, 2007