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Phil AmmannDecember 6, 2015

A round-up of Sunday editorials from Florida’s leading newspapers: Tampa Bay Times — Hard choices on climate change Midway through the climate talks in Paris, world leaders will make the uneasy transition this week from soaring rhetoric to hard promises. But with nothing on the table so far that achieves the goal of limiting future […]

Jim RosicaDecember 4, 2015

The Lord may have said, “I will never leave you or forsake you,” but he’s given up on the Florida Capitol. The private group that has put up a Christian nativity scene inside the statehouse says it’s taking a pass this year because the annual controversy over various displays has become too distracting. Pam Olsen, president of the Florida Prayer […]

Martin DyckmanDecember 4, 2015

“Another day in the United States of America. Another day of gunfire, panic and fear. This time in the city of San Bernardino in California, where a civic building was apparently under attack.” That is the voice, tinged with sorrow and shock, of a BBC reporter describing yet another day in America. Just another day […]

Guest AuthorDecember 4, 2015

I have never owned a gun. I’m certain there’s no personal God who hears and answers our prayers. So naturally I found the New York Daily News headline – “God isn’t fixing this” – intriguing. Some editors there apparently decided to issue a collective scream after the slaughter in San Bernardino on Wednesday and the […]

Mitch PerryDecember 4, 2015

First off, I want to wish the best for Brendan McLaughlin, who will be departing as a news anchor at ABC affiliate WFTS in a couple of weeks after 21 years in the market. Like yours truly, Brendan hails from the San Francisco Bay Area (Marin County, actually, I believe). Folks, there ain’t that many […]

Martin DyckmanDecember 3, 2015

John Kasich has taken heat for a web ad that subtly compares Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. Narrated by a former Vietnam POW, retired Air Force Col. Tom Moe, it paraphrases German pastor Martin Niemoller’s famous statement of regret that he did not speak up for the tyrant’s victims until he became one “and there […]

Martin DyckmanDecember 3, 2015

“Another day in the United States of America. Another day of gunfire, panic and fear. This time in the city of San Bernardino in California, where a civic building was apparently under attack.” That is the voice, tinged with sorrow and shock, of a BBC reporter describing yet another day in America. Just another day […]

Guest AuthorDecember 3, 2015

I have never owned a gun. I’m certain there’s no personal God who hears and answers our prayers. So naturally I found the New York Daily News headline – “God isn’t fixing this” – intriguing. Some editors there apparently decided to issue a collective scream after the slaughter in San Bernardino on Wednesday and the […]

Bob SparksDecember 3, 2015

Our country has some serious issues to deal with. The next president must finally confront terrorism both overseas and within our borders. The latest tragic example came on Wednesday in San Bernardino, California. We cannot get this choice wrong. For those of us who believe the best candidates are on the Republican side, GOP voters […]

Guest AuthorDecember 3, 2015

Early this football season, while I was watching the Pittsburgh Steelers play the St. Louis Rams, I saw something happen during the game that I have never seen before. The Rams’ running back, Tre Mason, broke out for a seven-yard run and our defensive back, Antwon Blake, went to tackle him. Mason attempted to leap […]

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A round-up of Sunday editorials from Florida’s leading newspapers

Baby Jesus could be absent from Capitol this year

Martin Dyckman: Insanity fueled by fraud keeps on killing

Tom O’Hara: Pray, ask God to make politicians impose sane gun control

Mitch Perry Report for 12.4.15 – on Jeb, Ted and Kobe

Martin Dyckman: As rhetoric descends, up pops evil

Martin Dyckman: Insanity fueled by fraud keeps on killing

Tom O’Hara: Pray, ask God to make politicians impose sane gun control

Bob Sparks: Mainstream media not the only Donald Trump enablers

Tom Rooney: Head games – The push to protect football players from brain injury