Joe Guzzardi
During the last year, I've written thousands of words predicting California Gov. Gavin Newsom would not only fail in his lustful quest for the White House, but would not even be nominated. Newsom was too slick, had made too many missteps — from th..
Hugh Mulcahy, a right-handed pitcher who started regularly for the dismal 1940s-era Philadelphia Phillies, was the first MLB regular drafted to serve in World War II. Inducted on March 8, 1941 — nine months before Pearl Harbor — Mulcahy lost fiv..
On Halloween night, parents now must decide between the traditional activity — taking the youngsters trick-or-treating — or a newer option: watching the World Series, The fall classic once ended in mid-September, but could extend into November t..
The political truism that citizens get the government they deserve is on full display in Chicago. Interpreted, the truism means voters choose their leaders, and if conditions do not turn out as hoped, they should have been more cautious before casti..
Even President Donald Trump's millions of critics cannot deny one central aspect of his character that has kept him at the forefront of U.S. presidential politics for more than a decade: Trump takes all questions, even from the most hostile reporter..
Mark Blomberg, baseball’s first designated hitter, grew up in Atlanta where hearing anti-Semitic slurs was a way of his young live. Blomberg’s childhood dream of playing for the New York Yankees and in front of the Bronx’s large Jewish populat..
The immigration enforcement action at Georgia's Hyundai Motor plant earlier this month demonstrates how many things go wrong when the federal government ignores its own immigration laws for nearly 40 years. Law enforcement officers arrested approxim..
Even the most devoted MAGA supporters occasionally wish that President Trump talked less. If Trump spoke less, he might be able to steer clear of the missteps his loquaciousness makes inevitable. White House stenographers, skilled at documenting the..
The wonder is how someone who has reached such high elected office could be so clueless about the political game's fundamentals. Gavin Newsom — twice-elected San Francisco mayor, twice-elected Lieutenant Governor, and twice-elected governor, plus ..
President Donald Trump has a second golden opportunity to end a visa program that has displaced millions of qualified Americans. During his first presidency, Trump — who campaigned on a "Hire American" platform — let the opportunity to cut 85,00..
For stumping political candidates, vowing to build affordable housing remains one of their biggest rallying cries. Presidential candidate Kamala Harris promised three million new housing units over four years, along with tax incentives and $25,000 d..
For an organization the FBI once probed for possible violations involving human traffickers and document forgers, the Los Angeles Dodgers have adopted high-and-mighty airs. Since no legal avenue exists to travel from communist Cuba to the United Sta..
Full Archive
- 11/19/2025 Newsom is style over substance
- 11/10/2025 Remembering the ‘losing pitcher’
- 10/30/2025 Baby Ruth and a Halloween night to remember
- 10/16/2025 Chicago wants ICE
- 10/02/2025 Trump is unique among presidents
- 09/23/2025 A Jewish pioneer who ended up making baseball worse
- 09/18/2025 Hyundai immigration mess could’ve been avoid
- 09/08/2025 Trump puts foot in mouth on Chinese student visas
- 08/20/2025 Californians souring on Newsom
- 08/05/2025 Trump must slash employment visas
- 07/10/2025 The Housing Crisis: Political promises vs. reality
- 06/26/2025 Dodgers’ dicey relationship with federal immigration law
- 06/12/2025 Assessing Arizona’s ‘veto queen’
- 06/05/2025 Trump is right to crack down on foreign students
- 05/22/2025 Baseball greats and the ‘gas and flame’ division during WWI
- 05/05/2025 Dodgers’ superstar welcomes anchor baby into family
- 04/21/2025 Latest immigration fight is taking place in Tennessee
- 03/21/2025 Newsom’s biggest problem is Newsom
- 03/05/2025 Missing Malibu
- 02/20/2025 The roadmap for Democrats out of their funk
- 02/13/2025 The slugger who introduced Marilyn Monroe to Joe DiMaggio
- 02/03/2025 Birthright citizenship headed to SCOTUS
- 01/23/2025 Time to end sanctuary cities
- 01/07/2025 Trump’s slap in the face to his strongest supporters
- 12/05/2024 Californians vote to accelerate their decline
- 11/29/2024 States join immigration enforcement battle
- 11/22/2024 American Indians have a long, storied history in baseball
- 11/14/2024 Whither Kamala?
- 10/31/2024 Illegal immigration is crushing many public schools
- 10/24/2024 Consistently wrong pollsters try again in 2024
- 10/17/2024 In historic case, common sense prevails on immigration
- 10/10/2024 Why MLB falls short in attracting Black players
- 10/03/2024 Baseball’s first Jewish superstar
- 09/20/2024 Harris’ failure on the border could hurt in the swingiest swing state
- 09/11/2024 Harris and Trump debated, but viewers learned nothing
- 08/29/2024 The labor leader who made baseball players millionaires
- 08/18/2024 Kamala, Reimaged
- 07/30/2024 The Kamala conundrum
- 07/16/2024 Lowering the political temperature isn’t that hard
- 07/05/2024 Gavin Newsom would be an unqualified presidential candidate
- 06/26/2024 Canada’s immigration crisis
- 06/20/2024 This isn’t JFK’s Boston
- 06/13/2024 Teddy Roosevelt, the U.S. Flag, and ‘Americanism’
- 06/03/2024 On immigration, taking a lesson from 1924
- 05/23/2024 Remembering Pat Tillman, killed by ‘friendly fire’
- 05/13/2024 VP sweepstakes coming into final stretch
- 05/09/2024 Willie Mays was a Mother’s Day gift to New York
- 05/02/2024 Merrick Garland MIA during campus upheavals
- 04/19/2024 Five Pinocchios for Gavin Newsom
- 04/05/2024 Wall Street giddy over mass migration
- 03/26/2024 Opening Day 1969: ‘The Kid’ returns
- 03/14/2024 On St. Patrick’s Day, remembering when the Irish ruled the ring
- 03/11/2024 Pushing veterans aside to hire ‘new Americans’
- 02/22/2024 Black History Month: Satchel Paige, the pitcher meets the dictator
- 02/07/2024 U.S. workers lose ground once again
- 01/24/2024 Replace Joe Biden? Not with Gavin Newsom.
- 01/04/2024 In 2024, will border crisis accelerate or come under control?
- 12/19/2023 Remembering the Mosquito Bowl on Christmas Eve 1944
- 12/04/2023 House gives traitorous Mayorkas a free pass
- 11/14/2023 Remembering a forgotten baseball scandal
- 11/08/2023 Only ‘a fool’ wouldn’t expect terrorism at an open border
- 10/24/2023 The big omission in Biden’s Oval Office address
- 10/12/2023 Defend borders or close Army, Navy academies
- 10/05/2023 Feinstein’s Senate replacement assures chaotic 2024 bid
- 09/28/2023 On impeachment, Kevin McCarthy misses the big picture
- 09/21/2023 Republicans have rare opportunity to secure U.S. border
- 09/14/2023 On Rosh Hashanah, remembering baseball’s winningest Jewish pitcher
- 08/31/2023 DOJ sues SpaceX for hiring U.S. citizens
- 08/21/2023 A red carpet for Afghanistan and Ukraine, but not for Maui
- 08/09/2023 Fitch’s downgrade of America’s credit rating was actually generous
- 08/03/2023 On Purple Heart Day, honoring Charles Durning
- 07/26/2023 Robots can now harvest ripe strawberries
- 07/20/2023 Cooperstown needs to restore excellence, tighten induction standards
- 07/12/2023 Baseball’s All-Star Game ‘Ain’t What She Used to Be’
- 06/30/2023 On Independence Day: George M. Cohan, the Yankee Doodle Boy
- 06/28/2023 Teachers quitting over COVID fallout, overcrowding
- 06/22/2023 Biden administration speaks in forked tongues about migration
- 06/08/2023 DHS invites in, then releases criminal aliens
- 05/31/2023 Pregnant moms at the border, thanks to Biden’s immigration policy
- 05/24/2023 On Memorial Day, parents mourn hero son killed in Vietnam
- 05/18/2023 World Economic Forum’s ‘Great Reset’ advances
- 05/11/2023 On Mother’s Day: Christina Gehrig, the Iron Horse’s Iron-Fisted Mom
- 05/04/2023 Child labor is back in vogue
- 04/26/2023 Mickey Mantle’s regrets
- 04/06/2023 Trump indictment must not distract from border crisis
- 03/23/2023 Schools struggle to accommodate migrant students
- 03/15/2023 For St. Patrick’s Day: From coal mines to Cooperstown
- 03/09/2023 Open borders foster increased identity theft
- 02/19/2023 On Presidents’ Day, Woodrow Wilson and his baseball love affair
- 02/10/2023 For baseball legend Don Zimmer, it was love at home plate
- 02/02/2023 Population pressures drying up Great Salt Lake
- 01/20/2023 Interior Department’s misguided ‘restoring America’ program
- 01/05/2023 Mid-term voters prefer status quo, which is bad news
- 12/15/2022 U.S. ecological footprint confronts the border crisis
- 12/05/2022 The MLB umpire who learned in a German POW camp
- 11/30/2022 Tech workers brace for possible job killer
- 11/09/2022 On Veterans Day, baseball’s forgotten hero
- 11/02/2022 Immigration restrictionists brace for looming lame-duck session
- 10/25/2022 Heritage Month: The all-brothers baseball team
- 10/12/2022 Clinton’s post-1994 midterm immigration awakening
- 10/06/2022 Hispanic voters trending red
- 09/28/2022 GOP pins hopes on ‘Commitment to America’
- 09/23/2022 On Rosh Hashanah, a WWII hero and Hall of Fame slugger
- 09/21/2022 What the law says about governors and migrants
- 09/15/2022 How the Yankees almost stole an NFL legend
- 09/08/2022 Before Serena Williams, there was Althea Gibson
- 08/31/2022 Labor Day victory for minor league ballplayers
- 08/28/2022 Biden agenda excludes ‘equity’ for Black workers
- 08/24/2022 Kenny Washington: Football’s forgotten Black pioneer
- 08/17/2022 Biden’s latest jobs report only tells half the tale
- 08/11/2022 Gavin Newsom? Dems better look before leaping
- 08/08/2022 With wife’s guiding hand, Jackie Robinson Museum set to open
- 08/02/2022 Proposed ICE ID card documents the ‘undocumented’
- 07/19/2022 Muddled Elon Musk wrong on population
- 07/14/2022 The All-Star game few saw, and fewer remember
- 07/06/2022 Amnesty is no laughing matter
- 06/30/2022 John Philip Sousa: Composer and baseball pitching ‘ace’
- 06/23/2022 40 million depend on nation’s most endangered river
- 06/15/2022 Remembering a perfect game on Father’s Day
- 06/14/2022 Facebook Needs a Makeover
- 06/10/2022 On Flag Day: Eisenhower’s Baseball ‘Secret’
- 06/08/2022 Census Bureau: Foreign-born population up 2 million under Biden
- 05/31/2022 Hispanic voters abandoning Democrats’ ship
- 05/24/2022 On Memorial Day, remembering Major League Baseball’s first WWI fatality
- 05/18/2022 Bone-dry western states can’t cope with population surges
- 05/12/2022 Border admissions staggering, a member of his cabinet admits
- 05/06/2022 White House deaf to New York Times’ immigration alarm bells
- 05/03/2022 DiMaggio brothers credit mom with their successes
- 04/27/2022 Pitcher Bert Shepard, a one-legged WWII hero
- 04/18/2022 Cheating and lying spawned border invasion
- 04/14/2022 During Passover, honoring ‘the Rabbi of Swat’
- 04/05/2022 Opening Day 1939: Bob Feller, Chief Wahoo and Judy Garland
- 03/31/2022 Amid shortages, immigration overages hurt all
- 03/24/2022 White House and the Media: Corrupt and dishonest
- 03/15/2022 On St. Patrick’s Day, the best Irish baseball players
- 03/11/2022 Can the U.S. handle a wave of Ukrainian refugees?
- 03/08/2022 Lockout gives fans chance to enjoy real baseball
- 03/01/2022 Five million Ukrainian refugees possible
- 02/21/2022 The Jackie Robinson you probably didn’t know
- 02/15/2022 Schumer and AOC in a possible primary showdown?
- 02/09/2022 Congress launches new assault on U.S. workers
- 02/01/2022 Fact or Fiction? Teenage girl struck out Ruth, Gehrig
- 01/30/2022 White House Sees Border Policy Failure as Success
- 01/20/2022 Congressional Black Caucus ignores wage gap solutions
- 01/18/2022 MLB Lockout: Billionaires versus multimillionaires
- 01/11/2022 Harry Reid once championed pro-American immigration reform
- 01/04/2022 Forecasting 2022 at the Border
- 12/16/2021 The Mounting Cost of Afghan Resettlement
- 12/10/2021 Elon Musk’s Uninformed Plea for More Babies
- 12/08/2021 GOP Searches for a Lone Democrat ‘Nay’
- 12/06/2021 Pearl Harbor Day and the Pineapple World Series
- 12/01/2021 Enemies Among Us
- 11/24/2021 Noise Pollution, an Overpopulation-Related Health Crisis
- 11/16/2021 Troubling Details of Biden’s Build Back Better Bill Being Hidden
- 11/10/2021 In Right Field for the Yankees, a Storied Marine Veteran
- 10/29/2021 Facebook Aiding and Abetting Southern Border Invasion
- 10/25/2021 Braves Return to World Series with Memories of 1957
- 10/21/2021 Krysten Sinema’s Missed Opportunity
- 10/15/2021 Amid the Playoffs, a Look Into Baseball’s Future
- 10/12/2021 Looking Ahead Following Dismal Jobs Report
- 10/05/2021 Obama’s Immigration Warning to Biden
- 09/22/2021 Biden to Deport Haitians: Too Little, Too Late
- 09/16/2021 The Terrible Towel’s Tender Back Story
- 09/09/2021 White House Dismisses Sovereign America’s Future
- 09/01/2021 Remembering Hank Aaron and a Forgotten Labor Day
- 08/27/2021 ‘Woke’ Goal: Cancel Democracy
- 08/19/2021 Can We Trust Biden To Vet Afghan Refugees?
- 08/16/2021 Border Fiasco Ensures Tight Mid-Term Races
- 08/10/2021 Drought, Border Surge Incompatible
- 08/03/2021 RIP Richard Lamm, An Ally For Stable Population and Sensible Immigration
- 07/27/2021 The Woke Cleveland Guardians
- 07/15/2021 Biden Keeps Walking Back Trump’s Border Policies
- 07/09/2021 Babe Ruth Shined Brightest at Baseball’s First All-Star Game
- 07/01/2021 On Independence Day, Remembering a Yankees Star and American Hero
- 06/30/2021 On Independence Day, Cautionary Thoughts
- 06/21/2021 Interned Japanese Americans Turned to Baseball
- 06/15/2021 For Human Smugglers, Income Opportunities Abound
- 06/10/2021 Migration’s Root Causes Identified: Biden and Harris
- 06/01/2021 Birth Tourism Thrives in New York City
- 05/25/2021 On Memorial Day, Remembering an Ace Pitcher and War Hero
- 05/21/2021 New Biden Move Hurts Tech Workers, Recent College Grads
- 05/13/2021 After Crossing the Border, Then What?
- 05/05/2021 Biden’s Not-So-Humane Immigration Policies
- 04/27/2021 Biden Was Right on Refugees. Then He Caved.
- 04/20/2021 Border Crisis Also An Environmental Crisis
- 04/15/2021 The Brown Derby, Hollywood Stars and a Long-Ago Era
- 04/08/2021 San Diego Teachers Betray Local Students
- 04/01/2021 Texas Lawsuit Seeks to End Open Borders
- 03/24/2021 Who’s in Charge: Harris, Rice or Biden?
- 03/15/2021 Willfully Blind White House Ignores Border Chaos
- 03/10/2021 Honoring Baseball’s Hearing-Impaired Players
- 03/03/2021 Border Failures Grow U.S. Population
- 02/22/2021 Spring Training and the True Story of the Grapefruit Nickname
- 02/16/2021 Biden’s Problematic Polling
- 02/11/2021 Congress Dismisses U.S. Working Class Americans
- 02/04/2021 $15 Wage Hurts Vulnerable Workers
- 01/28/2021 Put Pete Rose in Hall of Fame Now!
- 01/25/2021 Biden Amnesty Expands U.S. Labor Market
- 01/15/2021 Once Again, Soulless MLB is Robbing its Fans
- 01/05/2021 Tight Asylum Rules Protect the Homeland
- 12/30/2020 A Rose Bowl Memory
- 12/22/2020 Born on Christmas: Three Baseball Hall of Famers
- 12/15/2020 Chinese Spies Subvert Clueless Congress
- 12/08/2020 That Time Baseball Barnstormed the World
- 12/03/2020 Georgia: From Red to Purple to Blue
- 11/24/2020 Trump Goes Down Swinging
- 11/18/2020 ‘Scranton’ Joe and Immigration
- 11/13/2020 Pelosi: Dem Heroine or Albatross?
- 11/10/2020 On Veteran’s Day, Remembering War Hero and Hall of Fame Pitcher ‘Old Pete’
- 10/28/2020 COVID-19 Ruins Another Tradition Involving Baseball and the White House
- 10/21/2020 U.S. Immigration is Big News in Central America
- 10/12/2020 A Beloved Cowboy and His Baseball Team’s Long Drought
- 10/09/2020 Pence’s Missed Opportunities
- 10/01/2020 One Important Issue Overlooked During the First Debate
- 09/29/2020 Deep State Subverts American Workers Again
- 09/25/2020 Play Ball: When the Mt. Rushmore Nine Took the Field
- 09/18/2020 More Americans = Less Wilderness
- 09/16/2020 Juan Williams: Black Jobs Don’t Matter
- 09/09/2020 Tom Seaver and Baseball’s Altered Game
- 09/03/2020 On Labor Day, Protect U.S. Workers
- 09/01/2020 Minor League Baseball, a Vanishing American Tradition
- 08/26/2020 Overpopulation Sparks California Wildfires
- 08/20/2020 Purple Heart Winner Overcame Long Odds to Pitch in MLB
- 08/18/2020 Pompeo Subverts Trump’s Immigration Order
- 08/12/2020 Meanwhile, Down on the Border…
- 08/04/2020 Congress Abandons 30 Million Unemployed Americans
- 07/27/2020 California, In Ruins, Mounts Recall Against Its Governor
- 07/22/2020 On Opening Day, Three Cheers For A Baseball Obsessed Former First Lady
- 07/20/2020 Ted Williams And Tales of Great All-Star Game Performances
- 07/13/2020 Despite ICE Order, Students Unlikely To Be Deported
- 07/08/2020 With No Baseball, A Look Back at President Nixon’s All-Stars
- 07/02/2020 Taxpayer-Subsidized Program Displaces U.S. Tech Workers
- 06/30/2020 On Independence Day, Lou Gehrig Said Good-Bye
- 06/24/2020 Trump Acts To Defend American Workers
- 06/22/2020 Trump Administration Announces Overdue Asylum Guidelines
- 06/15/2020 GOP Joins Big Companies In Push For More Immigrants
- 06/09/2020 Congress Still Trying To Sell Out America’s Most Vulnerable Workers
- 06/04/2020 Like NAFTA, Trump Trade Deal Lacks U.S. Worker Protections
- 05/26/2020 Panic As Expiration Date on Trump’s Immigration Order Approaches
- 05/19/2020 Mickey Mantle’s Mammoth Memorial Day Blasts
- 05/14/2020 As Unemployment and Bankruptcies Grow, Trump Still Listening To Kushner
- 05/11/2020 On Armed Forces Day, Remembering Baseball’s First World War I Volunteer
- 05/07/2020 Congress Wants More Green Cards, Economy be Damned
- 05/04/2020 Long Ago, Cubs Trained on California’s Catalina Island
- 04/28/2020 Explained: Why Trump Backpedaled on His Immigration Order
- 04/24/2020 U.S. Physicians Sidelined For International Doctors
- 04/16/2020 A Baseball Redemption Story For Our Troubled Times
- 04/14/2020 Hawaii’s Earth Day Challenge
- 04/09/2020 Trump’s Golden Opportunity to Defend American Workers
- 04/06/2020 Baseball Great Babe Ruth Beat Spanish Flu… Twice
