Poor Barack Obama. In the space of a few short weeks, he has gone from liberal savior with a 15 point lead over John McCain, to a mere mortal in a dead heat in the polls. He has alienated some…
During this past weekend while attending the usual round of holiday cookouts, I continued my custom of wishing family and friends a happy Independence Day and continued receiving the oddest looks in return. While it’s true that many people have…
We who enjoy baseball are often lectured that today’s athletes are among the finest who ever competed and that all but a few of those in ages past could hope to compete at their high level of physical fitness. We’re…
Although much of the country dreads it like the plague, there is a chance that if Barack Obama wins the White House, Democrats would control the Legislative and Executive branches of our government, as did the Republicans during half of…
Now that the lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer are here, things are usually slowing down. But as temperatures in the Northeast crept toward the century mark this week, things were heating up in certain quarters. One of them is…
This past weekend on my annual baseball park tour, some friends and I decided to take a one-hour riverboat excursion on the Mississippi River, which departed from the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. Having previously taken a few extended riverboat…
Years ago, when only a triad of arbiters policed the baseball diamond, enterprising organists were fond of playing “Three Blind Mice” when the men in blue took the field. Of course, that was long ago and the mellifluous music that…
The way things work in our country never ceases to amaze me. Just last week in Israel, President Bush committed what much of our media and all of our leading Democrats considered a great offense; comparing people who seek a…
We are lectured daily by our betters in the media and academia on the continuing dissolution of our freedoms under the oppressive reign of George W. Bush and his sneering sidekick, Richard B. Cheney. The dreaded duo and the rest…
It was 1943. We were in the middle of a global conflict that was caused by the predilection of evil men for power. Predictions of doom and gloom abounded. How would the world survive? What could mankind do about it?…
