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We'll win the war, but it won't be easy
It's no secret: The Second Gulf War is not going as well as Gulf War I did. In 1991 American forces stormed into Kuwait with both strategic and tactical surprise, crossing the border with heavy armor from the far west after the "Hail Mary" lateral movement. The Marines, who rehearsed and re-rehearsed an amphibious landing in full view of the Iraqi defenders were, in the end, relegated to more conventional involvement. In less than 100 hours of ground combat, Iraq's armed forces were surrendering by the tens of thousands.

Editorial: The Divided Way
The United Way of Tampa Bay has pulled off the rare trick of offending just about everybody.

Editorial: Judges and politics
The idea of eliminating the state's nominating commissions from the selection process for certain judges and adding a requirement for Senate confirmation is a move in the wrong direction.

Editorial: Kill 'em all?
A sad sight in Tallahassee: prowar demonstrators clad in T-shirts saying, "Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out."

Letters: Exchanges of opinions are no threat to America
Quite a bit is being said lately as to what is and what is not patriotic. Are the Dixie Chicks patriots or pariahs? Is Michael Moore's Oscar acceptance speech a poignant reminder of our constitutional freedom, or a treasonous blaspheming against Americans everywhere?

 

Columns today
Jan Glidewell: Old grouser role harder to play than I imagined
At 9 a.m. Wednesday when I showed (okay, should have showed) up for work, I reached the milestone of having worked exactly 30 years at this newspaper, and therefore officially entered the domain of old farthood.

John Romano: Tough guy gets lesson about love
SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- You spend a lifetime acting tough. You blend expectation with confrontation and you create something akin to a legend.

Susan Taylor Martin: No chance to make it home
HAKAMAH, Jordan -- In military parlance, it's "collateral damage."

Eric Deggans: Blitz on your screen is ultimate in reality TV
At first, it felt like the world's largest video game:

 

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.