It was widely stated, initially by the Obama administration, that this campaign was not about race. -It wasn’t? Really? This reminds me of the old joke about how us guys like saying that we like Playboy magazine because we like reading the articles.

Moving at the speed of light as opposed to moving cautiously and methodically has its advantages for this new president. First, he aims to score early victories, and keep his critics on their toes. And secondly, as any experience entrepreneur knows…..it allows his to “fail forward” so that he can, in a short time, play the numbers game until he hits upon the winners we all seek.

Packaged goods giant Kellogg announced today that it would not renew its sponsorship contract with Olympic swimmer Michael as consequence of his being photographed smoking marijuana. I say we boycott Kellogg!

If you don’t believe that playing the Stock Market or other Institutional Investing is not gambling, just ask any one of the millions of people that saw their lives turned upside down and inside out in the past few months. Now that the Arizona Cardinals are on the verge of a 50-1 Super Bowl payoff, IBM and Microsoft are looking more and more llike a second rate bet

The Internet, at least up until now, has been the last refuge of commerce untouched by the “Tax Man.” It all seemed so appropriate that the digital world, created by free-spirited nerds, flourished primarily because the government kept their grubby little hands to themselves. That is….until now!

It appears that the Russian people do not have much of a list when choosing who their most popular historical figures are nationwide poll shows. I mean, what does it mean when the third place winner is the warm and loving is Soviet dictator Josef Stalin despite the fact that millions of Soviet citizens perished from famine during forced collectivization, were executed as “enemies of the people” and died in Gulag hard labor camps during his rule.

With his ABC interview (Video enclosed) Vice President Dick Cheney put a smoking gun on the table. He admitted that he, along with other top administration officials, personally approved the CIA’s waterboarding of prisoners. That he said it unapologetically is merely his low-keyed way of declaring open war. IS HE PREPARING HIS DEFENSE FOR THE INEVITABLE?

I came of age in the 1960s and had an older brother who introduced me to marijuana in my early teens. My views concerning pot were formed at that time and evolved as a result of experience with the drug and life. Here is an expose’ done by journalist, Lisa Ling for National Geographic’s Explorer program being aired this month. Check it out. (VIDEO ENCLOSED)

President-elect Barack Obama faces an economic crisis that is similar, but not yet as dire, as the one that confronted Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who took office in 1932 in the midst of the Great Depression. Still, he can take a lesson from FDR who knew that the immensity of the problems required the taking of bold steps.

Have you ever wondered why George Bush gave up on finding Osama bin Laden and in some cases, pulled the plug on overt and covert military operations when they had intelligence reports on his whereabouts? It is only now, that president-elect Barack Obama is slated to take office on January 20th that we are seeing a resurgence of news reporting on Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. Why is that?