Imagine two balls bouncing forward one ball bounces one time over a barrier and continues on – the other ball bounces and careens off of a barrier and continues to bounce seemingly endlessly – but within the confines of the barrier. Then imagine a dollar a dollar that enters the hand… Read full post »

On August 20th 2012 the Republican Party will most likely nominate Mitt Romney as their party’s standard bearer. The folly is the process.  In the beginning the GOP licked their chops as they eyed the 2012 Presidential election with relish,  they saw a d/… Read full post »

No one can dominate a stage like Newton Leroy Gingrich – no one loves a stage more, and now at what should be the twilight of his long and controversial career, the former Speaker of the House is a center stage of the national discourse. As… Read full post »

Today the St. Louis Cardinals closed a chapter – and opened another. When future first ballot Hall of Famer Albert Pujols announced he was accepting a reportedly 10 year 250 million dollar contract with the Anaheim Angels, shockwaves reverberated throughout the baseball world, s/… Read full post »

At the moment nothing would make Mitt Romney happier is to be able to pivot and aim his fire at the man whose job he wants – Barack Hussein Obama. And to some degree Mr. Romney has tried to do that, yet the nagging candidacies of his GOP Rivals won’t allow… Read full post »

I can imagine that outside of one’s own state university, and very few high profile individuals, very few people would know the name of an Athletic Director. In the world of big time college sports, the hierarchy between boss and subordinate is upside down. In Chapel Hill North Carolina,  … Read full post »

I have been following baseball since the late 60's.  Many World Series memories have come and gone, starting with nine year old tears following the Cardinals blowing a 3-1 lead in games against  Detroit in 1968, as the graceful Centerfielder Curt Flood misplayed… Read full post »

The word occupy is rooted in Latin meaning to “grasp or to seize”. Today the word occupy has become synonymous with protest – as the Occupy Wall Street movement has taken front and center in our political and social discourse over the last few months. Some have compared it to the… Read full post »

"Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that have poisoned our politics for so long."

 President Elect - Barack Obama November 4^th 2008

 "I know there's been a lot of skepticism about whether the politics of… Read full post »

Failure refers to the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success

When one wades through the angst in America that reflects in the dropping poll numbers of Barack Obama, one word lurks beneath the slender veneer of… Read full post »

from september 2002

 The Ancients were aware of Karma; they both feared and respected it. The knowledge of Karma evolved in the Judeo Christian tradition as “you reap what you sow”. This is the harsh lesson of 9/11. In the aftermath of that monumental tragedy, we mourned our… Read full post »

Below is a blog I wrote a few years ago following the release of the 9/11 Commission Report

The 9/11 Commission was charged in the aftermath of the World Trade Center attacks to review of the actions of the US Government and the agencies whose responsibilities… Read full post »

“We oppose and condemn the action of the Democratic Convention in sponsoring a civil rights program calling for the elimination of segregation, social equality by Federal fiatt, regulations of private employment practices, voting, and local law enforcement…”

States Rights Presid… Read full post »

In November I travelled to Haiti for two weeks working on my project Seven Days in Haiti. The clip below represents a preview of three of film's segments. I plan to return this November to conclude the Haitian part of the Production.

I will be be uploading this film on… Read full post »

Hustle

"to sell something to or obtain something from by energetic and especially underhanded activity"

As President Ronald Wilson Reagan often said, “facts are stubborn things” and the stubborn fact of this current debt ceiling crisis, is that there are a… Read full post »

“People won’t vote based on the unemployment rate, they’re going to vote based on: ‘How do I feel about my own situation? Do I believe the president makes decisions based on me and my family?’”

David Plouffe - Senior White House Advisor 

Today conservative… Read full post »

I ________solemNly swear…..

In 2006 I would log into a chat room and often the talk turned to politics and the upcoming 2008 Presidential election. My response to the chatter was often the same – “On January 20^th, 2009 Chief Justice John Roberts would administer the Oath/… Read full post »

“The threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own… Read full post »

Remember back in the day Spike Lee told us to WAKE UP!

 Its 2001 and we are still asleep. Unlike Lawrence Fishburne, I ain’t gonna raise my voice, ain’t my stylo, but know this:

 A state of war exist today, right now, as we speak,… Read full post »

In the afterglow of the first Iraq War George Herbert Walker Bush’s 89 percent seem to scare off many of his potential democratic rivals for 1992, including New York Gove… Read full post »

 In 2008 as President Elect Barack Obama assembled his cabinet, already with one rival – Joe Biden in the fold as Vice President, he begun to generate comparison to the 16^th President Abraham Lincoln whose “team of rivals” were the foundation of his Presidency.… Read full post »

"I tell you the truth, anyone who believes in me will do the same works I have done, and even greater works"

Jesus of Nazareth Gospel According to John 14:12

We can ill afford to see the works of Jesus as mere abstractions, or a… Read full post »

In 1961 the baseball gods thought so little of Roger Maris’ breaking of the hallowed home run mark of Babe Ruth because it was done in 162 games rather than the 154 game schedule of 1927, an unseemly asterisk was assigned to peer down forever on Roger Maris’ triumph. In the… Read full post »

"never been afraid to say
what's on my mind at, any given time of day
Cause I'm a RENEGADE"

JayZ  - Renegade

The battle is joined. President Obama’s speech last week on his vision for how this country should pull itself up by the bootstraps and restore fiscal sanity drew immediate… Read full post »