Editorials

HCTA Needs More Local News

Dear Editor, I would like to express my extreme displeasure with the direction that the Holmes County Advertiser seems to be going. It is become apparent to me that the Advertiser is no longer a local, hometown newspaper. I have noticed this for qui... Full story

Tobacco Free Florida Saves Lives, Saves Money Op-Ed

Florida has long been a pioneer and leader in tobacco prevention and cessation programs. The state was among the first to sue the tobacco industry in 1997. It launched a model youth prevention program, and achieved significant results in reducing you... Full story

Budgeting for Dummies

By Howard Rich

President Obama has said that the cuts included in his fiscal 2012 budget will force "tough choices and sacrifices." Meanwhile, House Speaker John Boehner invoked a former tax-hiking president in defending his chamber's proposed budget reductions. "... Full story

Mainstreaming Radical Islam

By J. Matt Barber

The term “useful idiot” is believed to have been coined by Vladimir Lenin. It originally described liberal Communist sympathizers in Western nations who, as the Soviet leader explained, would “sell us (Soviet Russia) the rope with w... Full story

Wisconsin Unions vs. Governor Walker:

  It is hard to overstate what is at stake in the dramatic showdown between Wisconsin’s teachers and their Republican governor and legislature. The political and economic course of our country hinges on how the issue of public-sector unio... Full story

Economic depression leads to "democracy" in Middle East

Larry Klayman

WASHINGTON, DC — Today, Larry Klayman, the founder of Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch, and a former U.S. Senate candidate in Florida, issued the following statement on events in the Middle East and around the world:   "In the months aft... Full story

Property Insurance Reform: Living on Borrowed Time

By Eli Lehrer

Sometime soon—maybe even this year--the run of good luck that has brought Florida five consecutive hurricane-free years will end. When it does, the state could face a fiscal crisis that would make this year’s $3.6 billion budget gap appea... Full story

Miller Message

US Rep. Jeff Miller

On Monday, President Obama released his budget request for fiscal year 2012, and it offers more spending, more taxes, and more of the same failed policies that have been in place over the past two years. Total spending proposed for the year would be ... Full story

Republicans silent as Middle East burns

Larry Klayman

  We all know where the "mullah in chief," President Barack Hussein Obama, stands on Israel and the Middle East – four square with the previous "idiot in chief," former President Jimmy Carter. Like Carter, who believes in the "innocenc... Full story

Obama's czars may become unemployed

LAW ENFORCEMENT EXAMINER

President Barack Obama’s arguably unconstitutional and unaccountable political appointees known as "czars"  may be joining the nation's unemployed now that the U.S. House of Representatives voted to block fund... Full story

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