Facing fierce resistance, the Obama administration today backed off a plan to ban sales of raw oysters from the Gulf of Mexico during warm weather. ...more

November 14, 2009

Letters to the editor from Nov. 14 editions. ...more

November 14, 2009

The U.S. House of Representatives with the leadership of Speaker Nancy Pelosi has cooked up three major recipes for disaster, which are the cap and trade bill, the health care bill and the amnesty bill for illegal immigrants. ...more

November 13, 2009

The Republican National Committee's health insurance plan covers elective abortions for its employees, an option Republicans strongly oppose in health overhaul legislation that Democrats are trying to push through Congress. ...more

November 12, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) - Abortion opponents in the Senate are seeking tough restrictions in the health care overhaul bill, a move that could roil a shaky Democratic effort to pass President Barack Obama's signature issue by year's end. ...more

November 9, 2009

When Rep. Anh "Joseph" Cao, R-La., won a stunning victory in a heavily Democratic district in New Orleans last December, the GOP was so thrilled that House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, sent a memo to his colleagues headlined "The Future is Cao." ...more

November 9, 2009

The Democratic-controlled House has passed historic health care legislation to provide medical coverage to millions more Americans. ...more

November 7, 2009

The current health care bill presented by Nancy Pelosi is quite a beast in itself, almost 2,000 pages. ...more

November 5, 2009

Re: "Sick of Obama opposition" in the Oct. 29 edition of Hernando Today. ...more

November 5, 2009

It would be hard for health care reform to be in worse shape. What were once lofty promises to curtail the excess of a soulless group of health insurance companies has turned into what is almost certainly going to be a bonanza for those very same companies. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is trying desperately to salvage some aspect of the bill and even still it seems unlikely that any good will come from this "reform." ...more

October 31, 2009