It appeared that the George Zimmerman trial was over. Then Barack Obama emerged from his office Friday like Punxsutawney Phil, saw his shadow, and sure enough we are going to have another six weeks of the winter of our discontent.

Why are there only embers left of the state's original fire to exhume bodies and unearth the truth at the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys?

I read with interest the Sunshine State News column by Nancy Smith, "No Casinos Inc., No Sense of History," contending that a press release I issued on behalf of NoCasinos.org demonstrated no sense of Florida history.

In the aftermath of the acquittal of George Zimmerman, Eric Holder, Al Sharpton and Ben Jealous of the NAACP are calling on the black community to rise up in national protest.

I like Jimmy Carter. Liked him since 1975 when I met him at a harvest festival in New Boston, N.H. He and his brother Billy were between speeches, camped out along the president-stumping trail.