IS IT BASEBALL OR POLITICS?  Just what is America’s favorite pastime?  Is it baseball or politics? The past few years have offered interesting comparisons. On one hand, the country is enmeshed in a full-blown presidential campaign with deep divisions over how to stimulate the economy and how to define America’s role in the world....Read More

          Thursday, March 8th, 2012 Tampa, Florida IS IT BASEBALL OR POLITICS?  Just what is America’s favorite pastime?  Is it baseball or politics? The past few years have offered interesting comparisons. On one hand, the country is enmeshed in a full-blown presidential campaign with deep divisions over how to stimulate the...Read More

Thursday, April 21, 2011 Baton Rouge, Louisiana BARRY BONDS AND THE GREAT AMERICAN WITCH HUNT! Now let me try to understand. Bankers, investment brokers and insurance magnates , whose greed and fraud reached into every household in America, don’t even get as much as a slap on the wrist.  But home run champ Barry Bonds...Read More

Thursday, March 3, 2011 Tampa, Florida ARE BASEBALL AND POLITICS INTERTWINED? Just what is America’s favorite pastime? Is it baseball or politics? The past few years offered interesting contrasts. On one hand, we went from a full-blown presidential campaign right into a major political controversy of how to “stimulate” the economy. Certainly in the past...Read More