"Hey Joe... where you going with that gun in your hand?"

-Jimi Hendrix

I wanted to avoid this unhappy topic, but the political tsunami under way cannot be ignored any longer. The shooting at Fort Hood reverberates through the imagination like a Clint Eastwood thriller with...

"Where is that moon, that leads to your soul?"

- Aromabar

Legend has it that Kaguya descended from a race of moon people. She was an extraordinary beauty with hair of gold, and Earthmen became obsessed with her. Alas, one day she was obliged by her moon...

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or...

A specter is haunting the United States: the specter of nuclear attack without nuclear war. Al-Qaeda, the Taliban and Iran, Pakistan and North Korea, capable state and shadowy non-state actors contemplate flattening an American city with a device smuggled into the United States at one hundred possible ports of entry....

We approach the future walking backwards, our gaze forever fixated on the past. Predicting the future is not a passive exercise; we invent it every day with our actions.

I began the sketches for what would ultimately become Obama 2012 in March 2007, a month after Barack Obama declared...

As a bored pre-teen with nothing to do in the hot summer months between school, I picked up a piston valve, brass BB-flat tuba one day and started to blow. The local youth orchestra loaned instruments and offered morning classes taught by classically trained volunteers, all at no charge. Before...

In the 1990s, Cuba sent its military officers, who had previously trained at prestigious Soviet military schools, to learn hotel management in Spain and accounting in Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Canada. Upwardly mobile officers burnt the midnight oil reading business books such as In Search of Excellence by Tom...

TO THE HONORABLE BARACK OBAMA, 44TH PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES

ON THE OCCASION OF HIS UPCOMING SPEECH AT THE FIFTH SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS, PORT-OF-SPAIN, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 17 APRIL 2009

Dear Mr. President,

During the unprecedented presidential campaign of 2008, in what is now considered the best campaign ever, Barack Obama pledged to create 3.5 million new jobs and cut taxes for 95% of the American population. Lofty goals indeed. Since his brief tenure in office, sobering, even alarming data continue to stream...

Former Democratic primary rival Gov. Bill Richardson, 61, has been chosen by the incoming Obama Administration to be the new Secretary of Commerce. The behemoth Department employs over 38,000 people and has a budget of nearly $7 billion, comparable to the GDP of a small state or country. It is...

The pundits and the press have been sounding off lately about Georgia and "Russian aggression."

French president Sarkhozy has just visited Georgia and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the supposed expert on Soviet and Russian affairs who accompanied President Reagan during h negotiations with Gorbachev, makes stern warnings to Moscow....

Perhaps the reader will think it presumptuous of me to proclaim Obama the winner before the first vote has been cast and arrogant of me to contradict our financial high priests Hank Paulson and Ben Bernanke, the successor to Alan Greenspan. They have declared that we are on the edge...