Decline in Religious Affiliation Favors Democrats
The saying goes that in politics demographics is destiny, meaning that the sectors of the voting public you appeal to will determine the outcome.There has been a lot of analysis about how Mitt Romney...
View ArticleGarment Workers Pay High Price for Our Cheap T-shirts
Next time you buy a T-shirt at Disney World or Sears or Walmart, don’t smell it too closely. You might catch a scent of charred flesh.
View ArticleThe President: Too Many Guns, Too Few Rules
President Barack Obama’s speech at the service for the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School atrocity was one of the more remarkable recent moments in our national life.
View ArticleAmericans' Anger Is Unwarranted and Harmful
I recently went to see the movie version of “Les Misérables.” I was familiar with Victor Hugo’s classic story but not with the musical, and frankly I didn’t care for it. Way too overwrought for my tastes.
View ArticleFlorida Still Faces Uncertainty in Health Financing
We are inching toward the hour when the Affordable Care Act – the health care law known as Obamacare – will become reality. And some of us have more than a passing interest in what that is going to...
View ArticleScott’s Conversion over Teachers Questionable
Is Rick Scott really our next education governor?
View ArticlePalin’s Stringent Faith, Politics Don’t Quite Click
Sarah Palin was in town in Lakeland last week. She was the headline speaker at the annual Leadership Forum at Southeastern University, an Assemblies of God school. The Forum is aimed at pastors and...
View ArticleLakeland Prayer Match Result: The Holy 1, Atheists 0
There’s something distinctly American about praying at public events – graduations, football games and such like. Having witnessed too many of these prayers to count, I can’t say there is much...
View ArticleFarm Workers Want Extra Penny from Publix
It’s a pleasant Sunday in Lakeland, not too hot and not too cool. It’s a comforting end to a very long walk for about 150 farm laborers, who marched 200 miles from Fort Myers last month to put pressure...
View ArticleGood Intentions, Negligence Yield Texas Blast
A few years ago I was back in my home state of Texas visiting relatives. I drove I-35 between Fort Worth and Waco, a road I had traveled, oh, maybe 10,000 times, when I spotted a sign advertising...
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