The Board of Directors of Sarasota Bayfront Planning Organization announced Nov. 21 William Waddill has been selected as Managing Director. After a selection process that spanned nearly six months, Waddill will lead the Master Plan development with design and planning firm Sasaki to re-imagine the 42-acre city-owned Bayfront. The announcement was made at a publicly noticed […]

It was fascinating to watch how such a gentle and caring person came in tandem with an equally feisty wit and vitriol.

The concept of free speech suffered throughout the year.

German scientists want you to bundle up to get ready for a century of global cooling.

I remember one Christmas when I lost my grip on reality and asked my helpmate if she wouldn’t like a little something from Victoria’s Secret. She allowed as how it might be a waste of money unless I planned to wear it.

If, as some believe, it was the role of Christianity to spread the word throughout the world, it is the Jews who claim first rights to the idea of the dignity of man.

Forgive me for thinking that killing 14 people, possessing over thousand rounds of ammo and nine remote-control pipe bombs, abandoning their six-month old daughter and contacts with other terror suspects indicates at least to me, that they had a passing interest in jihad.

Unfortunately, while it is more than likely Hillary Clinton knows the truth, President Obama seems to be a believer and a purveyor of the “nothing Islamic to see here” Islamic defense.

The struggle against Islamic terrorists is a war. It is not conventional war but is a war nevertheless. The response from the West has to be more than the ubiquitous candle light vigils.

The hard truth facing the Democratic Party is that their common resort to cultural issues may have run its course and is now a losing strategy.