While reading my pocket edition of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States that I received from the Heritage Foundation, I came across a fascinating point. In the section where the Founders submit their facts to the world as to why the King of Great Britain has necessitated altering the colonies' form of government, they…

Submitted Thursday and printed in  the Saturday April 23, 2011 edition of the Florida Times Union:

FEE HOLIDAY

Title: BAD IDEA

  I would like to express my urgent concern and opposition to Council President Jack Webb's legislation to suspend the city's "fair share" payment…

The masthead of Folio Weekly purports itself a news and opinion magazine. Obviously the Tea & Little Sympathy article by Hal Crowther is the latter. Regretfully, it is also devoid of facts and filled with crass blather that surpasses the exact demagoguery he attributes to the Tea Party and its members. "Racist Right", steeped in ignorance and extremism, rabid, violent, irrational, mean segment of the middle class, knuckle-dragging, genetically challenged…