Opioid epidemic demands every resource available
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Opioid epidemic demands every resource available

ByA.J. Smith

Floridians are witnessing an alarming upswing in the number of deaths from drug abuse and overdose, especially from heroin and prescription painkillers, also known as opioids. As the Franklin County sheriff, my team and I have seen first-hand how this epidemic has tragically unfolded in our community. Emergency calls are more and more frequent, and…

With Biden incapacitated, who’s running the country?
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With Biden incapacitated, who’s running the country?

ByRon Hart

Easter is coming. With a president of the United States who could hide his own Easter eggs and throw himself a surprise party, we deserve to know one simple thing: Who’s calling the shots in the White House? It is clearly under leftist Democrat rule.  Joe Biden butchered another press “chat” to respond to the…

The base wants the fight, instead of the victory
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The base wants the fight, instead of the victory

ByMona Charen

The border bill circus is the latest demonstration of a bedrock reality of today’s Republican Party: It does not exist to achieve political outcomes. Its chief function is fan service. The overriding concern of GOP voters, according to polls and to elected Republicans, is immigration. In the ranty precincts of the right, they believe that…

It’s all about being lost, and found
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It’s all about being lost, and found

ByKesley Colbert

I’m teaching a class at Gulf Coast State entitled, “Will You Know Where You Are When You Get Where You’re Going.” I did not think up that moniker. I “borrowed” it from a guy taller, smarter, and funnier than I am. He explained his version to a laughing “Grand Ole Opry” crowd.  There is a…

Some thoughts on the cultural phenomena that is Taylor Swift
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Some thoughts on the cultural phenomena that is Taylor Swift

ByChristine Flowers

When you poke a hornet’s nest, you expect to get stung. If that hornet’s nest is filled with young girls in spangles and tutus — and their doting parents — you can expect to get skewered. That is exactly what happens if you criticize the social phenomenon known as Taylor Swift. It is a form…

Tucker Carlson’s fatal attraction
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Tucker Carlson’s fatal attraction

ByMona Charen

The title of my 2003 book, “Useful Idiots,” was a reference to a perhaps apocryphal quote sometimes attributed to Lenin to the effect that gullible liberals in the West would prove useful idiots for the Soviet Union. I wrote about Democrats; 21 years later, the epithet belongs wholeheartedly to the GOP. Their choice to support…

Dems want everything electric, except the border fence
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Dems want everything electric, except the border fence

ByRon Hart

Joe Biden spent his first three years in office telling everyone that “our southern border is secure.” He would squint into the cameras, looking like that banjo player from Deliverance, and say that.  Yet we all knew he was not serious about it because he put Kamala Harris in charge. The only less genuine effort…

Trump’s $83.3 million temper tantrum
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Trump’s $83.3 million temper tantrum

ByMona Charen

In the wake of the eye-popping $83.3 million verdict against Trump for defaming E. Jean Carroll, many commentators mocked Trump’s bumbling lawyer, Alina Habba, and not without cause. The 39-year-old fashion model, er, attorney, who had never tried a defamation case before (and, in fact, was lead attorney in only three previous cases) was repeatedly…

The Secret Lives of Words: Florida’s flamboyant flamingos
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The Secret Lives of Words: Florida’s flamboyant flamingos

ByRick LaFleur

If you’re a senior citizen like me (there’re plenty in Apalach), you may recall “When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano,” the chartbuster hit first recorded by The Ink Spots in 1940, and later by Glenn Miller, Pat Boone, and even, in an at-home private session, Elvis (they’re all on YouTube). I was reminded of…