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Editorials
Arming pilots is a bad idea
One of the worst security ideas to emerge in response to Sept. 11 is the call for arming airline pilots. A pilot's job is to fly the airplane, not double as the airline's deputized Rambo should armed hijackers overtake the cabin. There may be an argument for cabin attendants to have access to stun guns, but the pilots' focus should be on securing the cockpit, for much more is at stake if skyjackers seize the controls.

A fulfilled promise
Eight years ago, Florida Comptroller Bob Milligan set out to change the relationship politicians had with financial institutions, and now that his job is done, he's retiring.

Letters
Attack on votes supporting Israel has peculiar odor
Re: Stoking the fire, editorial, May 4.

 

Columns today
Gary Shelton
Spat has no winner, but is fun to watch
Pick a side. Either side.

Susan Taylor Martin
With us or against us? Mideast is not that simple
Catchy sound bites can lead to shaky foreign policy.

Tampa Uncuffed
A sawbuck helps four judges run
Talk about one-stop shopping. Next week, supporters can buy a ticket at a campaign event and help four judges at once.
 

Perspective
Taking jobs, alienating customers
For weeks Americans have been told that the outsourcing of high-tech jobs is good for our economy. So said Greg Mankiw, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers in a recent report signed by President Bush. So, too, writes Thomas Friedman of the New York Times in articles praising the rise of call centers in India used for everything from making airline reservations and reading medical X-ray films to providing tech support for American computer firms.

Philip Gailey: Democrats fall off campaign finance reform wagon
Well, what do you know. Soft money is back, and it's making hypocrites of all those Democrats who fervently championed the McCain-Feingold campaign reform law, not to mention those Republicans who objected to the law's restrictions on issue advocacy.

Bill Maxwell: Who is for the farm worker?
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is touting legislation to improve the lives of Florida's 300,000-plus farm workers, who endure institutional and systemic injustices each day in our fields and groves and their personal lives.

Robyn E. Blumner: For some defendants, an American gulag
In Bernard Malamud's masterpiece The Fixer, inmate Yakov Bok was subjected to psychological torture in a Soviet gulag through the humiliations of constant shackling and repeated strip searches.