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Editorial
Governor's contempt of courts
One of Jeb Bush's least admirable traits is the petulance he displays when the courts don't see things his way. The latest case: the Florida Supreme Court's 6-1 ruling this month that the Constitution doesn't allow the Legislature to slap cost estimates on ballot initiatives such as the class-size and pre-kindergarten amendments. The governor called the decision "incomprehensible."

Editorial
The unheeded alarms
Investigators have shown that U.S. intelligence agencies mishandled years of accumulating evidence that al-Qaida was plotting an attack using airplanes.

Letters
Don't use religion to shift focus in the Al-Arian case
Re: Genshaft allies cite religion in Al-Arian case.

 

Columns today
Sandra Thompson
How much bad news can anyone withstand?
Last week, the week of the election and Sept. 11, was very strange. There was the forced remembrance, as if we could forget, every ramification covered in the media over and over and over as if repetition had the opposite effect of dulling the senses.

Steve Bousquet
Democrats must look for pay dirt in Palatka
It was an unlikely setting for a civics lesson.

 

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.