Did you know that there is no rule against steroid use in the rule book of Major League Baseball (MLB)? Swearing, spitting, fighting, and gambling, yes. Performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs)? No.

If you want to know the truth about what will happen in their "get tough" dealings with Alex Rodriguez...

I'm not going to do a movie review of the sleeper summer hit Now You See Me, and the less I tell you, the more that you will know about this magical movie, and why it annoys critics and delights audiences.

I will be up front with you: The timeless...

Every morning the dead greet me before the caffeine gives me a chance to focus their reality. I post their stories to a Facebook wall. Why? I was about as numb as most of you are.

Then I woke up.

I have a big problem with violence against...

Allen West likes a business success story, and nothing in business says success like a $5 million conviction for mail fraud, wire fraud and money laundering.

The controversial congressman, according to LibertyLinked.com, visited with Reagan Wireless in Deerfield Beach, Florida in September, 2011. It's a company that proudly touts on...

Mitt Romney won last night's debate by pundit scorecards. He'll lose the week, though, as the media begins to digest his claims and press him for the specifics of his "plan" at odds with his last eighteen months of campaigning, and frequently, reality.

Much of the reviews last night were...

Fundamentalism is fundamentalism. Jidhadi or Teahadi. The rage and fear that is stoked is real, but it is only a by-product, not a popular groundswell of real thought or desire. These demonstrations of dystopian dysfunctionalism are the handiwork of a handful of powerful Oz-like people who hope these images sell their narrow...

Imagine, with no prior experience, jotting down 10 ideas for a feature film on a piece of paper, and then two of them becoming major motion pictures.

Screenwriter Danny Rubin not only hit that daily double, but his second script, Groundhog Day, has become an existential comedy...

Investors clamor for Facebook's IPO, a $100B+ invisible suit for its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week. As one of the first five digital publishers on the Internet, I can say that you might as well put your money in the toilet and flush, unless Facebook reinvents itself a...

The Oscars are known for many odd customs and bits of superstition, but American Blacks best know the Color Purple Curse. Viola Davis was upset by the veteran Meryl Streep at the Oscars, even though Davis had won the Screen Actors Guild award days earlier.

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Mitt Romney got the headline from Florida that he was seeking out of the New York Times: "Romney Wins Big Over Gingrich." That's one way of looking at it.  A very shallow, reflection from the wading pond sort of view.  Diving the depths of the numbers, though reveals a...

The public face of the Romney campaign is projecting power and trying to coalesce the GOP faithful around him. Privately, both the candidate and the GOP have to be worried. Neither primary win has been convincing, and their ballyhooed anti-Obama referendum evaporated.

The media buzz was that Romney did the...

The rapid rise in fortunes for the Rick Santorum campaign was not a sudden surge of populism. The real story of Tuesday's Iowa Caucuses is that the hand of the uber-rich libertarian and ultra-Christian Right can tilt elections, and tilt them quickly by way of the new Super PAC slush...

Last week, departing Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates blasted the North American Treaty Organization (NATO) alliance members for their shorting of military spending in the Libyan campaign. He chastised NATO leaders and their governments for a general lack of collective will in Afghanistan as well.  Do we need...

When Newt Gingrich is too moderate for the Republican Party, the Tea Party has turned the political landscape into quicksand for GOP presidential aspirants.

Gingrich, appearing on NBC's Meet the Press, was asked whether Republicans should buck polls that show their Medicare voucher system is D.O.A. His

Yes, I speak jazz heresy: Maybe it is time that the promoters of the annual April/May music festival in New Orleans fess up. Jazz may get top billing on the signage and the posters at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, but it rides the back of the bus...

The Founding Fathers defined the boundaries of liberty and freedom. New Orleans lives them. The birthplace of jazz. The true birthplace of Rock-and-Roll. Home to most American cultural traditions of music, the Crescent City is a testament to the American Dream. People of no means made it to the big...

Former Republican Governor of New Mexico Gary Johnson announced his intention to run on the Republican ticket for President in 2012 to a crowd estimated at 18 people. Here's why Barack Obama should be good and scared of this dark-horse candidate.

I was in the sports news business working out...

The moniker "No Drama Obama" has long-since evaporated from the political dialogue, but that maturity and statesmanship that brought an end to a generation of political drama queens, from Reagan to Clinton to W., reared its ugly head again this week as the President's executive decision to support the UN...

GOPers, gather 'round. For your consideration, a travesty of bureaucracy: Eighty-eight different agencies make a slew of complex and often conflicting rules that mire thousands of small and mid-sized American businesses in snarls of paperwork that run up man-hours, reduce their company output, profit and hamstring their ability to do...

What's the difference between the mob and Major League Baseball (MLB)? You know, that's a really good question.

Writers were gleefully typing away last week, with the New York Post reporting the $25 million bailout by MLB of the New York Mets and owner Fred Wilpon. Wilpon...