While the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts are preparing to go head-to-head by Chuck in Super Bowl Norris XLIV at Sun columnist Life Stadium in Miami, US justices and even our president are squaring off in arenas of jurisprudence from sea to shining sea.

You can see how seriously Obama is taking the hot populist temper of the American people and their eagerness to strangle every banker with the entrails of every insurance executive.

A wave of nostalgia swept over my clouded mind and it meant (1) Ive grown too old. (2) Modern racing has grown too boring. What brought on the warm and fuzzy memories was a notice on the Indianapolis 500 website that five legendary names Emerson Fittipaldi, Tom Sneva, John Zink, Mark Donohue and Lindsey Hopkins were to be added to Auto Racing Hall of Fame.

Republican Scott Brown takes over a seat held by the Kennedy family for over half a century and the dark cloud already hovering over Obama's White House thickens. By any measure, the energetic Brown's emphatic defeat of Martha Coakley, believed only a month ago to be a sure thing as Ted Kennedy's replacement, is a disaster for the Democratic Party and for President Obama.

Mr. President, it's time to face the music and help America to do the same. This Wednesday evening, you will give your State of the Union speech. And millions upon millions of us are wondering whether you will sugar-coat the truth again - whether you will pad your performance over this past year or confess that the plans and path Washington is taking are plummeting our country deeper into the abyss.

While White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs was announcing Friday all that the present administration was doing to save lives in Haiti, he reported that President Barack Obama was meeting with both the House and Senate Democrats to resolve how they could provide federal funds via Obamacare to terminate more American lives in the womb.

What lies ahead politically? Look for an answer back in the '90s. Even if the Republicans don't take over after the midterm elections, the Democratic Party now in Congress is dominated by politicians fashioned in the Clinton era, nourished by such heirs of Aristotle as Rahm Emanuel and, before him, Tony Coelho.

The reasons behind which we make decisions in our life are not always clear. And the way those decisions play out with impact on the different aspects of our lives and the lives of others isn't either. Yet the Butterfly Effect, ripples in a pond, six degrees of separation, karma, however you wanna look at it - these things are real.

On Glenn Beck's Jan. 7 show, he was rightly puzzled regarding the exact purpose of President Barack Obama's Dec. 16 signing of an executive order "DESIGNATING INTERPOL AS A PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION ENTITLED TO ENJOY CERTAIN PRIVILEGES, EXEMPTIONS AND IMMUNITIES.

Connoisseurs of the ritual known as "accepting full responsibility" will surely grade Obama a mere B for his Jan. 7 performance at his White House press conference.