1) "V. A. BAILEY1 has urged that a variety of geophysical and astrophysical phenomena can be explained by a net charge on the Sun of -1.5 1028 e.s.u., admitting that this proposal is at variance with some of the "most cherished notions"2 of theoretical astrophysicists. Attention may therefore be directed to certain deductions from Bailey's hypothesis that are in conflict with unambiguous evidence from observation as well as with what is generally regarded as sound theory." Source and further information: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v189/n4758/abs/189043a0.html 2) "It was at Harvard that astronomer Donald Menzel ridiculed Velikovsky, claiming his theories would require an impossible solar charge of 1019 volts. The sun, he said, couldn’t have more than 1800 positive volts (or, it follows, one negative volt)—this before physicist V. A. Bailey calculated that the sun has a negative charge of 1019 volts." Source and further information: http://www.varchive.org/lec/harv.htm 3) "Bailey was widely recognized as a leading authority who achieved results in what has come to be known as 'plasma physics'. He was elected a fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1955. After retiring from the university in 1960, he enthusiastically advocated the counter-intuitive idea that the Sun carries a net electric charge. This idea led him to make predictions about the interplanetary magnetic field, but the notion has never been widely accepted." Source and further information: http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130108b.htm

im lucky to figure out which side of the street the sun comes up on...wow...what great question and great minds

Great question and I, too, wonder as much. The main reaction in the nucleosynthesis process is the conversion of a proton into a neutron. A product of this reaction is a positron, or anti-electron, which (almost) immediately annihilates with an electron to release energy in the form of gamma radiation. This being the case, shouldn't stars have a positive, and gradually increasing, charge as these electrons are 'used up'?