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Editorial: Homeland insecurity
Color codes and duct tape can't compensate for inadequate government preparation for future terrorist attacks against American targets.

Editorial: Greenspan on the money
Add Alan Greenspan to the list of those who say President Bush's $665-billion tax cut package doesn't add up. In appearances before Congress, the Federal Reserve chairman, who has presided over money policy at a time when the stock market and job creation hit record highs, refuted most of the assumptions underlying Bush's deficit-ridden budget.

Letters: Israel's tactics play a part in Mideast violence
Re: Where are the Palestinian elections?, Israelis know the folly of appeasing totalitarians and "The peace of the grave," letters, Feb. 3.

 

Columns today
Mary Jo Melone: Even as he campaigns, Miranda looks back
The photographer directed Charlie Miranda to a stool and asked him to look at the camera. Miranda smiled and the camera clicked. A second later, the photographer, from the Tampa Tribune, asked Miranda to shift his position on the stool. Another click. Another picture. There was no preening, no adjusting his suit coat. Miranda wouldn't do that. He is much too comfortable with who he is.

Gary Shelton: I'll take a throwback, and make it a Dobler
I want a Jim Bouton throwback jersey.

 

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.