George Steinbrenner, the iconic, New York Yankee “boss,” is no longer bossing the Bronx Bombers. Failing health doesn’t permit his inimitable hands-on, sometimes heavy-handed, presence. That absence was most recently apparent in the aftermath of the dust-up between the Yankees and the Tampa Bay Rays over some rough spring training play. Consensus is the Rays [...]
Seemingly, everyone from here to Cairo has had an opinion on Youssef Megahed and Ahmed Mohamed, those two Egyptian-national, former USF students arrested in South Carolina last year – and what they might have been up to. Recall that there was weird stuff in the trunk of their car and on a laptop and on [...]
To call it “Checkersesque” wouldn’t be fair to Barack Obama’s recent, riveting speech on race, although the results could be pragmatically similar: saving a candidacy. In “Checkers,” it was Richard Nixon’s1952 vice presidential slot on the Eisenhower ticket that hung in the balance. At stake last week was Obama’s viability as a presidential candidate uniquely [...]
That Adm. William Fallon stepped down as head of U.S. Central Command didn’t surprise insiders. He’s not on board with key elements of US strategy in the Middle East. He can be a unilateralist – as seen with impending, blindsiding personnel cuts at Centcom. He has a tendency to talk outside of school. And he’s [...]
However this all shakes out regarding the Democratic Florida primary fiasco, there’s no lack of principle in play. There’s the principle that “every vote counts” and disenfranchisement should never, ever be countenanced. And then there’s the principle that you “play by the rules” that all parties had agreed to. And then there’s the principle that [...]
Just when you think Florida couldn’t possibly complicate things more when it comes to presidential primaries, there’s a bill starting to generate bi-partisan interest in Tallahassee that could do just that. Through the efforts of state Sen. Paula Dockery, R-Lakeland, and 10 other legislators from both sides of the aisle, we have Senate Bill 2776, [...]
You don’t have to be Geraldine Ferraro to observe that “If he (Barack Obama) was a white man, he would not be in this position
If anything is truly absurd in the Obama-Clinton dynamic, it is the prospect of an Obama vice presidency. It’s beyond disingenuous for Hillary Clinton or her husband to hold out such a scheme-team ticket to the Democratic faithful. Especially after diminishing his candidacy by saying how ill-prepared Obama was to be commander-in-chief. But a heartbeat [...]
Nice to see running back Warrick Dunn returning to the Bucs’ fold. At this stage of his career, he will likely be a “situational” player who can still help the Bucs’ problematic offense. But what he will definitely do is involve himself in societal situations. He’s a major community asset, including his “Homes for the [...]
We were reminded recently that the Confucius Institute at USF is now up and running. It’s a liaison to China, which provides funding, in our backyard. USF is the only university in Florida to host such a cultural center. That it’s important to the U.S. as well as China should be self-evident. And speaking of [...]
