Tourism has been an integral part of Florida’s economy, for good and ill, since… well, since Ponce De Leon came ashore in 1513…
Author: Gary Beatty
Gary Beatty lives between Florida and Pagosa Springs. He retired after 30 years as a prosecutor for the State of Florida, has a doctorate in law, is Board Certified in Criminal Trial law by the Florida Supreme Court, and is now a law professor.
A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW: Crosses and Thought Control
“In Flanders fields the poppies grow, amid the crosses row on row”. On June 21, the US Supreme Court quoted from John McCrae’s sobering 1915 poem when they held 7-2 that a cross erected to commemorate American WWI dead does not violate the “establishment clause” of the First Amendment. The “establishment clause” prohibits Congress from READ MORE
OPINION: Equal Justice Under the Law
Socialism ignores that individual initiative is an inherent human trait…
OPINION: Believe the Survivor? Why?
Covering up an indiscretion is one reason a woman would lie about sexual assault. There are a others…
OPINION: Old School Politics
Whenever I hear we need to spend tax dollars “for the kids” I think of Johnson’s words…