Contributor Joel is a native New Yorker, now settled in Tennessee. His published novel, "Dance with the Shadow Machine," is a dystopian story of a society controlled by a computerized banking system. He is completing two non-fiction works, "Solutions for a Naked Country," a rambling perspective on America with solutions for America's problems; "Guns: Guardian of Liberty," a study of the ignored militia in the Second Amendment. Joel hosts a talk show, live streamed at wetb790.com.