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Editorial
Deport him or let him out
Tuesday will mark six months since former University of South Florida teacher Mazen Al-Najjar was imprisoned pending his deportation. It is time for the Immigration and Naturalization Service to deport him or let him out of prison. As the U.S. Supreme Court recognized last year, indefinite detention of stateless illegal aliens is not an acceptable option under the Constitution.

Editorial
Refocus public access fight
In a merciful world, the sound reasoning behind Hillsborough State Attorney Mark Ober's decision not to prosecute a local cable TV program for criminal porn would close on the highest note possible the silly sound-bite war that left Ober trapped between two Tampa political opportunists.

Editorial
Losing meaning
Catholic Cardinal Bernard Law makes believe the sex-abuse issue is foremost about money and authority, but that attitude is doing a disservice to the public and the church.

Editorial notebook
Gov. Jeb Bush plays a better teacher on TV
TALLAHASSEE -- You'll have seen the campaign ad by now. There's a beautifully furnished, American-flagged, not remotely overcrowded classroom full of rosy-cheeked, well-fed children. There's Gov. Jeb Bush: beautifully coiffed, rosy-cheeked and well-fed himself, calling on various Norman Rockwellesque tykes as they thrust their small hands in the air, eager to learn. And he is eager to help them learn: Indeed, the ad implies he is singlehandedly leading Florida to the sunny uplands of enlightenment and economic growth usually associated with states that actually spend money on educating their young.

Letters
Physician care isn't swayed by drug companies
Re: Drug companies cozy up to doctors, May 4.

 

Columns today
Howard Troxler
It's nothing personal, but voters like term limits
SOUTH PASADENA -- Hope springs eternal in the human heart, but especially in the hearts of city commissioners and councilors everywhere.

John Romano
Beware the hope a Rays win breeds
ST. PETERSBURG -- On a day like this, you begin to believe.

Sara Fritz
Security should be top priority
WASHINGTON -- It's not news to anyone that the work of the FBI has often been seriously flawed.

 

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.