David Stevens, president of the Long & Foster Companies Inc. real estate firm, is expected to be selected today to run the Federal Housing Administration. ...more

March 23, 2009

Regarding the National Animal Identification System: Get the government and the so-called global elite out of our lives. I do not need my animals or myself microchipped. Perhaps we need to microchip Congress to find out their sneaky way. ...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

Lawmakers vowed Tuesday to all but strip AIG executives of their $165 million in bonuses as expressions of outrage swelled in Congress over eye-catching extra income for employees of a firm that has received billions in taxpayer bailout money. ...more

March 18, 2009

Bernard Madoff's guilty plea Thursday must not end the government's efforts to find answers - and more potential culprits - in the biggest financial fraud in history. The 70-year-old Madoff deserves what amounts to a life sentence for defrauding 4,800 investors with his high-flying Ponzi scheme. ...more

March 14, 2009

Our economy is collapsing around us. We have a spend-thrift, empty suit lawyer in the White House who doesn't have a clue how to fix anything except throw money. Nancy is running the show racking up deficits beyond anyone's imagination with a congress whose religion and ticket to heaven is pork. As the country gallops full tilt to socialism, Highlands Today sees fit to pick on Rush Limbaugh in a full blown editorial piece because he says "whacky" things. Politically, you can agree or disagree with Rush. However, the man should not be demonized because he disagrees with the way our country is being run. Most of his severe critics, and probably you as well, have never listened to Rush, for if you had, you would know he is anything but "whacky." Rush is a Reagan conservative and the Republicans need more like him. ...more

March 13, 2009

Well folks, if you were non-believers before March 7, surely you have been converted. I'm referring to the front page of this paper on the above mentioned date. The headline? "Operation Hot Milk." It reported illegals stealing canned baby formula from merchants here in Florida and sending it out of the state for resale. This little operation was costing the merchants here in this state some $2,500 per year. ...more

March 12, 2009

CIA Director Leon Panetta says agency employees who took part in harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects are not in danger of being punished. ...more

March 5, 2009

While 52 percent of this nation's voters proved to be "Kool Aid" drinkers last November, Wall Street obviously refuses to be fooled by the false hope, hollow promises and inane rhetoric of the new president's sad State of the Union address this past week. President Obama, his empty-suit, ethics-bereft cabinet and the most liberal, left-wing Congress in the history of the Republic, have managed to decimate both the S&P and Dow Jones indices by more than 27 percent since their election last fall. ...more

March 1, 2009

According to the article "Carbon Emissions Growing Faster" in last Sunday's Tampa Tribune, Co2 emissions have been growing at 3.5 percent per year since 2000. At this rate, the increase will reach a total of 41 percent by the year's end. Since Al Gore and his so called scientists and researchers have already conclusively linked increases in Co2 emissions with that of increases in global warming, wouldn't one have expected a rather dramatic or possible even a catastrophic increase in the earth's temperature during this period? Not so, for as studies have shown and we all we know, absolutely no warming has taken place since! It's time to finally lay Gore's theory to rest. ...more

February 20, 2009