Larry Thornberry

If Frank Capra were alive today, even he wouldn’t make a movie about the 2011 Tampa Bay Rays. No one…

TAMPA — OK, so maybe the Republican presidential nomination fight isn’t a private affair between Mitt Romney and Rick Perry…

Just read Tony Bennett’s comments on how America caused 9/11. He truly has left his heart in San Francisco. Where…

TAMPA — For decades now political consultants, especially those of the Florida sub-species, have been able to charge big bucks…

TAMPA — National Republicans will gather in Tampa for their national convention beginning one year from last Saturday. Hardly the…

Stan Musial: An American LifeBy George Vecsey (Ballantine Books, 401 pages, $26) SINCE HANGING UP his cleats, Stan Musial has…

Baseball and Memory: Winning, Losing, and the Remembrance of Things Past By Lee Congdon (St. Augustine’s Press, 140 pages, $25)…

TAMPA — President Obama’s Florida approval rating was well above water just after SEAL Team 6 canceled Osama’s ticket. Not…

PLANT CITY, FLORIDA — Conservative South Florida Congressman Allen West, looking every inch the soldier he was for 22 years,…

TAMPA — A little brush got cleared from the Florida U.S. Senate race this week when Florida State Senate President…