Salary cap in MLB???

Immediately after the New York Yankees won the World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies, some of the comments about it that I have seen is that a salary cap should be imposed in MLB and other sports so that they don’t turn business-only which would lead to the end of these sports. Imagine that – with the current system, we will see the same favorites for the particular championships and the same losers every season. What a mockery to most of the fans at the expense of the few!

CT Politics blog at connecticutplus.com

For the last couple of months I have been doing a weekly roundup of what is happening with the political life in Connecticut at state level.

New category – The Law

I have been thinking of expanding my blog with a new category and here it is – The Law. The Law will be a category where I will write about laws of any kind.

Caution, caution, caution! Democratic Party, Republican Party and bad contributors!

A disturbing news for the Democratic Party, and the Republican Party to a certain extent, has appeared on Yahoo! Finance. Raj Rajaratnam, a Wall Street billionaire, originally from Sri Lanka and with dual citizenship, whose net worth is valued at $1.3 billion, was arrested, together with six hedge funds managers for allegedly conducting insider trading schemes which generated illegal profits of $25 billion.

Back to Iran and its nuclear program ‘for peaceful purposes’

Breaking news today inform people all over the world about a concealed nuclear facility in Iran. This time the Iranian leadership was kind enough to be the first to let the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) know about the underground facility. Is that so, though?

Political Polling

If you want to get to know how polling institutes compose their surveys, I recommend that you read Jeffrey Stonecash’s book. He made it easy to read without too much of unnecessary and and repeating information other than discussing the time remaining until the election that a candidate can beat their opponent if they lag a certain percentage behind. As a result of this, you have a book that is merely 177 pages long (a sample survey and the author’s short biography included), a compartively high percentage of which are filled with boxes of sample questions in a survey.

The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran

The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran is a must read for those of you who want to get more insider’s information about the Islamic regime in Iran. I thank Dima Grozeva for giving it to me to read it for the summer. It was written not a long time ago (2007) which goes to show once again that in order to analyze current political, social, even economic, situations – it is very much recommended to know the past.

Bill Clinton’s role in North Korea both primary and secondary

Top news these days is the release of Laura Ling (32) and Euna Lee (36) from North Korea by former President Bill Clinton. The two U.S. journalists allegedly crossed into the Secret State from China in order to collect material for a report about trafficking of North Korean women into China. What impact did Bill Clinton have on their release?

The economy and us in a nutshell

How does the economy work and what do we do about it? Now that it is struggling, more people are getting interested in its mechanisms. It is a complex system to which different tools can be applied which can help, hurt or have no impact over it. Depending on the tools being applied to a specific economy (local, regional, state, even world), nowadays it is divided into two types – free market economy and planning economy. Both of them have their advantages and disadvantages but the former has already been proven to be better than the latter.

Enough with utopia, back to reality (WMDs)

 

 

 

 

 

 

James R. Schlesinger, a man with a lot of experience in U.S. and global politics, is trying to open our eyes about the reality of the nuclear weapons and their use.