Editorial
Smarter eating beats lawsuits
Imagine the possible new product slogans. Lay's potato chips: Please, eat just one. Almond Joy candy bars: Sometimes you feel like a nut -- and sometimes you feel like a spinach salad.

Editorial
Sparing the retarded
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against the death penalty for retarded people is built on the idea that most of the nation has come to oppose such executions.

Letters
School grading offers valuable lessons
Re: Arrogance in education, editorial, June 16.

Martin Dyckman
Florida can't be far behind to suffer from global warming
TALLAHASSEE -- Florida, which came from the sea, is heading back there faster than Nature intended. Global warming is the reason why, and those who still don't believe it belong in the Flat Earth Society.

Philip Gailey
Education debate needs more ideas and less politics
Whatever you think about Gov. Jeb Bush's education reforms, he deserves credit for igniting a long overdue debate on how to improve Florida's public schools. It's too bad so much of the debate is framed by opposing ideologies. Bush's A+ Plan is harshly denounced by Democrats who have little to offer other than calls for more spending without reform. The Republicans, meanwhile, seem to think the only way to turn around failing public schools is to offer parents vouchers to send their children to private schools that are unaccountable to the state for student achievement.

Bill Maxwell
The militia movement may have lost its steam
If the Organization fails in its task now, everything will be lost -- our history, our heritage, all the blood and sacrifices and upward striving of countless thousands of years, writes Earl Turner, the fictitious narrator of the novel The Turner Diaries. "The enemy we are fighting fully intends to destroy the racial basis of our existence.

Robyn E. Blumner
Case of Dr. Mudd could put to rest question of military trials for civilians
Had it not been for a recent dinner conversation, the obituary in the New York Times would have passed without notice: Dr. Richard Mudd, 101, Dies; Grandfather Treated Booth.