Just go to the ballot and vote for your local team (in my case Placido Polanco , Carlos Ruiz, and Raul Ibañez of the Phillies), future Hall of Famers (like Vladimir Guerrero, David Ortiz, Albert Pujols, or Alex Rodriguez), perennial stars (Carlos Beltran, Bobby Abreu, Alfonso Soriano, Melky Cabrera, Aramis Ramirez, Adrian Beltre, Miguel Tejada, Jorge Posada) or this year’s standouts (Placido Polanco again, José Bautista, Adrian Gonzalez, José Reyes, Miguel… [read post]

(Pix CiberCuba Jan 3, 2018)For the last six years I have written of the annual letter of the Cuban Council of the High Priests of Ifá (Consejo Cubano De Sacerdotes Mayores De Ifá), the practitioners of traditional religion brought over from West Africa with the slave trade and now naturalized as a powerful indigenous religion throughout the Caribbean and growing in the United States. [read post]

Gilmar Mendes Bonifacio Jose Tamm de Andrada x Juiz Eleitoral da 23ª Zona Eleitoral de Barbacena-MG Reclamação, com pedido de liminar, em face de decisão do Juiz Eleitoral da 23ª Zona Eleitoral de Barbacena-MG, que requisitou a abertura de inquérito policial pela Polícia Federal para investigar suposta prática do crime previsto no art. 299 do Código Eleitoral, em função do fornecimento de combustível a diversos… [read post]