http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/gulfstream/ The Art of WHAT IF en-us 2009-10-13T13:37:00+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#20091014092345 THIS ARTICLE WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN JULY 2008. I AGREED TO REPUBLISH, BECAUSE THE SUBJECT IS AS RELEVANT TO WHAT'S GOING ON TODAY AS IT WAS BACK THEN There was a well-written article posted by Ms. O’Grady in the Wall Street Journal on Monday July 27th pointing to the mistakes President Obama is making in Central America and the Caribbean. The jist of O'Grady's message was: Know your facts first . . . then act, and don’t confuse Populism with democratic supported freedom. She went on ... Points of View by JAY LILLIE 2009-10-14T13:23:45+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/gulfstream/index.html#20090908083505 THE CAT’S IN THE BAG Last week I attended a session presented by the business school at one of our best-known universities. The words floating around had a lot of letters and were erudite in style, but they painted the following picture. When is a stimulus not a stimulus? When it’s good old-fashioned pork. When is the list of projects that the stimulus law actually finances going to be released by Congress? Not soon. Why? It would let the cat out of the bag. Why is the job market not ... Points of View by JAY LILLIE 2009-09-08T12:35:05+00:00 http://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/gulfstream/index.html#20090619173113 My unabridged tells me that civilized means having an advanced or humane culture, and that to be humane you need to have compassion for the rights and ideas of others. Spend a few minutes coming up with names you see in the print and televised media every day, especially our politicians in Washington, and tell me who’s civilized. I won’t bore you with my own selections, but I found the process liberating, and at the same time a bit depressing. It’s a pretty short list. Isn’t civilization ... Points of View by JAY LILLIE 2009-06-19T21:31:13+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