It’s been almost a hundred years since baseball first confronted the issue of cheating.  Then, it was when a number of players on the Chicago White Sox took money to “throw” the World Series.  The Black Sox Scandal, as it came to be called, led to an iron-clad rule that banished anyone who ever cheated […]

Aristocracy – A form of government in which power is held by the nobility. Plutocracy – A form of government in which power is held by the wealthy. The birth last month of England’s newest prince was big news across the pond, but it was also the stuff of rapt attention here in the United […]

“It’s important to recognize that the African-American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn’t go away.  . . .   There are very few African-American men in this country who haven’t had the experience of being followed when they were shopping in a department store or of […]

As a former criminal defense attorney, a staunch advocate for civil rights, and a teacher of the American legal system, I have decidedly mixed feelings about the not guilty verdict in the George Zimmerman trial. On the one hand, I firmly support the jury’s verdict, believing, to the extent I knew of the evidence presented […]