http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/gulfstream/ The Art of WHAT IF en-us 2011-12-26T15:12:09+00:00 Publishers Marketplace Points of View by JAY LILLIE hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00:00+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/images/PM_rssimg.gif http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/ http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/gulfstream/index.html#20111226101206 An Open Letter to Barack Obama and/or his successor in office: It is not noble for you and persons like Al Gore to lead the world toward the elimination of carbon fuels if in the process you subvert the short and long term interests of your own people. Fact: Our nation is borrowing money from other countries to meet its current obligations, including interest on that same mushrooming debt, a circumstance that will debase the value of the Dollar and destroy our way of life if not reversed ... Points of View by JAY LILLIE 2011-12-26T15:12:06+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/gulfstream/index.html#20111218101707 Here is a copy of the author's note to the Book Editor of The Federal Lawyer Henry Cohen Book Review Editor The Federal Lawyer Subject: Review of Justice Dear Mr. Cohen, Imagine my surprise to have my beach book novel on Washington politics reviewed by the Federal Lawyer. "Justice" is just that - a political mystery in which I've taken full advantage of the fiction writers' literary license creating memorable characters causing and solving conflicts involving the White House, Congress, and ... Points of View by JAY LILLIE 2011-12-18T15:17:07+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/gulfstream/index.html#20111201153404 His nose twitched and he wickedly smiled and winked at me. “Come on Big Boy, give it up.” How much? “What you got?” Twenty Five cents. Will that do it? “What you think, Big Boy?” I don’t know. I’m from Missouri. “You not from Missouri. You from My District, Big Boy.” Okay, so how much? “All the Kings Horses, and all his woooo-men.” I don’t have any horses. “You got no woooo-men either, Big Boy.” So what do you want from me? “A license.” To do what? “Anything and everything . . . to spend ... Points of View by JAY LILLIE 2011-12-01T20:34:04+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/gulfstream/index.html#20070924143948 A friend of mine sent me an e-mail on the condition I not tell anyone. No one has heard from him now in almost two months, and I’m constrained to break my pledge of silence in the hope that someone may have seen him alive. A recent picture is attached. Here's what my friend wrote: “The corked bottle of Cuban rum that floated onto the Gulf Stream shore was empty. I had to break the bottle to retrieve the short letter from Fidel Castro that was inside. Roughly translated it reads as follows: ... Points of View by JAY LILLIE 2007-09-24T18:39:48+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/gulfstream/index.html#20070617060852 Sometimes the truth is hard to come by. In Cuba a couple of years ago in the company of a group of North American lawyers, I came across a 19 year old MAN who was complaining about the U.S. embargo against Americans doing business with Cubans in Cuba. I sympathized, but pointed to Fidel Castro’s repressive regime for the embargo’s rationale. “You’re a lawyer,” he said, “and you tell me that?” As I nodded a “yes,” I could see him getting up the nerve to make his point. “Would you like to ... Points of View by JAY LILLIE 2007-06-17T10:08:52+00:00