Tom Jackson
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Gratitude: Practice it every day
Thursday being the day officially set aside for giving thanks — to God or his other manifestations if you are a believer, otherwise to the inexplicable order that coalesced out of chaos ȁ → Read More
Columnist treks overseas to honor dad’s WWII service
SALZBURG, Austria — By the time the 7th Army’s Third Infantry Division rolled into Salzburg in the postwar spring of 1945, Pfc. David Jackson’s mind was focused like a tracer bul → Read More
Firefighters need policy against cancer
The tale of Maria Silva, the 15-year Pasco County firefighter sidelined by thyroid cancer, is at once sad, alarming and instructional. The first two speak for themselves. → Read More
Oscars, we have a problem
It will not come as a shock to nearly nine in 10 Americans that this year’s Academy Awards show — which ended only a few minutes ago with Neil Patrick Harris launching a new line of har → Read More
Toys for Tots still leans on postal pickup Saturday
WESLEY CHAPEL — No one needs to tell the celebrants of yuletide that the calendar is shedding days before the annual launch of the fabled reindeer-powered sleigh like needles from an unwatered → Read More
Look out, Greenlight; here comes the driverless car
Regarding transportation, the question for all of us — but especially for Pinellas County voters, who in November will decide about their near-term future — isn’t whether we → Read More
Robin Williams: Heartbreak redefined
From the moment he burst upon our consciousness as the manic, mischievous and innocent Mork, it was clear Robin Williams was not merely a unique mash-up of genius and energy; he was a marvelous freak → Read More
Godspeed, Robin Williams; we hardly knew ye
Damn. Rats. Shazbat. → Read More
Obamarail jumps the track
Increasingly, it appears Florida dodged a bullet when Gov. Rick Scott declined to enlist in President Obama’s plan for a national high-speed train network. Volunteer states have seen misspent → Read More
Inside Bondi’s thoughtful recommendation
Proponents of same-sex marriage in Florida, who have had their way in recent circuit court rulings down south, leapt Friday to accuse Attorney General Pam Bondi of committing political intrigue and w → Read More
Jim Brady, once more a gun-crime statistic
So, this happened: > This week’s death of former White House press secretary James Brady, who survived a gunshot wound to the head in a 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, has been ruled a homicide, District of Columbia police said Friday. ... > An autopsy revealed the cause of death to be a gunshot wound and its health consequences, and the manner of death was ruled a homicide,… → Read More
Redistricting 2.0: Lots of shoes still to drop
So the Legislature is back at it, once more attempting to thread the devilishly minuscule eye of a needle only lawyers could love. → Read More
Dr. Brantly’s imbalanced ledger sheet
The question is not, necessarily, whether safeguards at Emory University Hospital — where Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, a Christian missionary physician and his nurse are being treated → Read More
A Koch cure for Piketty’s false narrative
Worried about income and/or wealth inequality? Yeah, me neither. But some of your left-leaning neighbors are practically apoplectic about the world as interpreted by French economist Thomas Piketty ( → Read More
Lone mourner ready to put tennis stadium to rest
CASHIERS, N.C. — Allow me to begin by promising this second-annual horse-carcass flogging will not become a tradition, like some cranky version of the Kumquat Festival or Swamp Fest. Still, do → Read More
Changeling Charlie’s vow to go Total Obama
Now that everyone’s favorite Republican-turned-independent-turned-Democrat has announced he is prepared to go Total Obama from Day 1 if he’s restored to the governor’s mansion, v → Read More
Big gap in left’s Obamacare subsidy argument
Having dwelled so long in their self-affirming echo chamber, lefty journalists appear incapable of honestly acknowledging the hole in their argument about Obamacare’s inviolability. Too bad fo → Read More
Scott’s choo-choo troubles (mostly) refuted
Rick Scott is catching heat for what seems to be double-talk coming out of his administration over its support for passenger rail. Let’s have a peek. → Read More
Much affirmed by VA’s dumb tweet
In the lead item to his “Best of the Web” column Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto nails the Department of Veterans Affairs for an exquisitely dumb tweet as well a → Read More
Jackson: On Bergdahl/Taliban swap, too many bad explanations
At this point, heaping criticism on the swap of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five hardened Taliban military leaders almost feels like piling on. And it would be if the whole fiasco weren’t this → Read More