3/18-"MILLIONS FOR DEFENSE, BUT NOT ONE CENT FOR BRIBERY" MAY BE AN APT SLOGAN FOR FEDEX WHEN THE FEDS ACT LIKE BARBARY PIRATES!

You don't have to be a person to have -- or to lack -- character.  Corporations can do it, too!  Consider the contrasting styles of standing up to government bullying right bow between FEDEX and UPS.  The Justice Department is, in effect, complaining that both companies are "aiding and abetting drug traffickers."  FEDEX says, "What rot!  It's YOUR job, not ours, to identify the drug dealers.  Tell us who they are and we won't ship for them any more."  Meanwhile UPS takes a position more like,"Ooooh, Dear Me, what can we do?  If we do everything you say and pay a fine -- just tell us how much -- will that bring 'peace' to the 'valley'?"  PATRICK FITZGERALD, spokesman of FEDEX, visits Sara and Barry this evening.  Barry is so energized with FEDEX's stance, he wants to take a short leave and run their entire resistance campaign for them!

3/14- HOPES FOR HIS HOLINESS FRANCIS THE FIRST ARE HIGH, BUT CAN WHITE SMOKE CONCEAL A RED AGENDA

Congratulations to Pope Francis the First on his elevation to the papacy, and no disrespect intended, but let's find out immediately who it is who's telling us that the combination of the exiting of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and the arrival of the new pope is terrible news for the Castro brothers and their other Latin-American Communism clones and a great blow for freedom.  It sounds hopeful, but remember; they said Fidel Castro swore he'd hold free elections within one year.  Before that they told us Mao Tse Tung was just an "agrarian reformer".  And before that they told us Josef Stalin merely wanted to "preserve the gains of the working class."  Former Roman Catholic priest TOM KANE, author of "Good Church, Bad Church" visits Sara and Barry this evening to pick up the theme.

3/13-THE AGING COLUMNIST TOLD HIS NEW YOUNG BOSS WHY HE NEVER TOOK VACATIONS. "NUMBER ONE," HE EXPLAINED, "IT MIGHT HURT THE PAPER. NUMBER TWO, IT MIGHT NOT HURT THE PAPER."

Barry believes some interview shows would be better without the interviewer.  He points out that once upon a time NBC-TV lost its audio link to a Wimbleton tennis championship in England and all it could show was the video.  And so they did; and thousands of tennis fans wrote and called the network to CONGRATULATE them on their new style of broadcasting tennis.  Putting that theory into action, Sara has the evening off and Barry has chosen professor-writer-scientist-inventor ADRIAN VANCE to demonstrate how rewarding it can be when the right guest is free to choose his own flight path and soar.  Barry will be on hand to introduce segments, ask a follow-up question now and then and get Adrian a glass of water if he needs it.

3/15- IF CARDINAL BERGOGLIO CAN GO FROM UNKNOWN TO POPE IN TWO DAYS, REPUBLICANS, TOO, HAVE A RIGHT TO DREAM!

With the president all of a sudden not much more popular than the Republican House, not all Republicans are gloomy.  Even cynical columnist Charles Krauthammer observes there's a "deep Republican bench" and lots of hope for oncoming elections.  Former GOP Representative from New York JOHN LeBOUTILLIER takes the measurements of those Republican front-runners to see if there's any sign of a Reagan -- or at least a winner in those ranks.  Cong. LeBoutillier visits with Sara and Barry this evening.

3/12-HOW COULD A LITTLE COUNTRY LIKE FINLAND THROW BACK THE POWERFUL SOVIET RED ARMY OF THE SOVIET UNION?

STINA KATCHEDOURIAN was a little girl caught up in Finland's THREE WARS between 1939 and 1945.  Her father at the front and her mother were cut off from each other and at one moment in 1944 she and her mother found themselves surrounded by 200,000 German troops who overnight became enemies.  They fortunately escaped to Sweden and later to America where Stina put her adventures inside a book entitled The Lapp King's Daughter.  Stina visits with Sara and Barry this evening.

3/11-GOOD LORD, MAN, ARE YOU ALLOWED TO SAY THAT ON THE RADIO

Remember the movie about the man who simply could not tell a lie, and the drama, danger and hilarity that quirk caused?  The closest we have to such a person in real life is NEAL BOORTZ, talk radio icon and super-star, who either refused to use the emergency brake on his own tongue, or didn't have one.  Little upscuddles became huge controversies thanks to Neal's delicious refusal to keep it calm.  Boortz has put his more than four decades of radio stardom between covers of a book, "Maybe I Should Just Shut Up And Go Away," in which he looks back and shares the fun and the fury of what happens behind the scenes when you're a talk radio icon with a deliberately loose tongue.  Boortz visits with Sara and Barry this evening.