World leaders pay closer attention than our own population to the leadership and decisive qualities of our president. He has already “gone wobbly” on Syria’s use of chemical weapons.

We will know this country has gotten serious when it starts proposing logical solutions to straightforward problems.

If you choose to criticize the only thing that makes an economy work – business – why do you then turn a blind eye when it comes to collegiate sports whose workers are paid nothing and who are controlled by rules intolerable and illegal elsewhere?

In 1881, Otto von Bismarck introduced the retirement age of 65 years old in Germany. He set a retirement age to counter the winds of socialism spreading through Europe. He set it at 65 because almost no one lived that long. Throw the people a bone on which they can never chew — a pretty clever political move, wouldn’t you say?

What happens to the attitudes and narrative when whites are no longer a majority in this country, a condition on the threshold as we speak? In the case of the plurality cited by the NYT article, it is obvious that several future voting blocs will exist: Blacks and Whites; Blacks and Hispanic; Hispanics and Whites. I can see situations where it is to the interest of these coalitions to all exist simultaneously.

Trust is the cornerstone of the modern banking system. When you or I or a company puts money in a bank, we trust it will be there when we want it. If an entity – out of the blue – puts forth loan conditions that require a country to take our money out of our savings accounts, we will put it in a mattress. And economic activity will come to a halt.

With Bob Woodward leading, it looks like the Washington Post has some questions these days. So does NBC News. Forbes Magazine is wondering why Homeland Security is buying a stockpile of ammunition that could last them 50 years. It is no longer just Fox News and fringe right-wing blogs asking the questions.

Remember when Nancy Pelosi said Congress would have to pass the bill (Obamacare) in order for us to understand what was in it? That day has come. A number of news sources have reported recently that companies are dropping spousal coverage in their insurance plans. Why? They can save considerable costs and, interestingly, Obamacare does not require spousal coverage.

For a conservative, this is encouraging on another level. For instead of assuming a majority of the voting population has lost their minds and is now in favor of an ever-expansive federal government, we can now extrapolate that the national election was deciding by a minority (about 8.6 percent) stretched to a perceived majority via replicative illegal voting (6 x 8.6 percent for those of you struggling with math).

Middle class jobs, with a few exceptions, exist in a given locale at the pleasure of investors. No one wants to hire a workforce that causes problems, either by themselves or with the aid of the government. Middle class jobs are the ends, not the means. It is time we all faced up to this.

Preparation, even the old "duck and cover," could save many lives. More importantly, it could help us all deal with the day after, for it would be something for which we are then mentally prepared.

I am particularly revolted when politicians talk about being a servant of the people. Who are they trying to kid? The politician who truly is the servant of the people is rare and never uses those words. Who do I trust? I'll take business people any day.

One of the privileges of the "good old days" was that one did not leave home often, so one did not have to spend time having their freedom encroached by others who thought they knew better than yours truly. Today, one follows trucks on the highway that tell you they are going to make a wide right turn and you better not get in their way.

The GAO report is quite dismal as it looks at financial controls and the financial path forward for the country. On page five of the cover letter of the report, it states (last full paragraph on that page): "Over the long term, the structural imbalance between spending and revenue will lead to continued growth of debt held by the public as a share of GDP; this means the current structure of the federal budget is unsustainable."

One of the strengths of the United States has been that when radicalized by one side or the other, as it now has been by the liberals, we collectively find a way to bring it back to the center. Just maybe, once again, the states hold the key and sanity can return.