America's Founding Fathers did not create a democracy. Rather, they created a "polity," a hybrid of oligarchy and democracy based on a large middle class.

The Founding Fathers had to finesse the problem of naming the type of government they were building. To call a polity a polity would have alienated both oligarchic and popular constituencies. That avoidance still exists; it is now a taboo.

In refusing to be categorized, President Obama categorically categorized himself.

Momentum has musical properties that enable it to overrule reason and logic. That formidable power is neurological in origin.

Momentum is ultimately neurological in origin, i.e., a product of how our brains work. Momentum has musical properties. Music may be the last residue in consciousness of the original state of sensory unity all human fetuses experience. Music also involves the cerebellum, the most primitive part of the brain, which measures and guides movement.

From Colorado to Cairo, Peru to Bali, terrorists are notably of middle class origin. Why? Is there something in the middle class milieu -- doctors and lawyers, teachers and accountants -- that creates terrorists?