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.

Sunday, Jan. 6 was Epiphany for Christians around the world and I had one on this subject. The EPA can, without further legislation, take on the gun control "problem." After all, it is settled law over four decades old that the EPA is charged with controlling lead in the atmosphere and soil.

When one looks back in history, public education was established, not to train people for employment, but to train voters to be intelligent in a democratic society. Education has lost this purpose and today's voters' knowledge of critical issues is often nearly as ignorant as the fine citizens of old Salem, Massachusetts.

When I talk to groups about the coming threats of RPAs, I point out that most defenses we see routinely deal with threats under 10 feet in altitude. Even most of the TSA checkpoints in airports are wide open above eight or nine feet. Our thinking must change when we think of threats. Threats now come from any altitude, from any direction and at nearly any speed.

So, I will agree with you climate-change folks, for once. We must do something about climate change (as well as 2%-ers). Stop subsidizing and encouraging the building of homes and businesses in flood-prone areas.

There is no place left in America for conservatives. And if there is no place in America for conservatives, there is no place in the rest of the world, either. It is as if being a conservative is some sort of a disease — you are shouted down as being the radical right or worse for simply having a limited government, conservative viewpoint.

The president is certainly comfortable doing things like the rich do – endless golf, fantastic vacations, running around in the most fabulous passenger plane on earth. So, he can't despise what the rich and wealthy do with their money, otherwise he wouldn't do those things himself – they would be abhorrent to him and his wife.

Among the many things the federal government has taken from us, the joy of giving may just be the most serious.

As a global warming skeptic who will never be in a car pool van or AFV unless forced to do so by the government, it hit me that I now know a little of what discrimination feels like. Today, if you do not bow to the Global Warming/Climate Change/Carbon Footprint gods, you are deemed stupid, ignorant, lazy and unenlightened.

Lobbying should be stopped or severely reduced on all sides. Not just business, but environmentalists, the NRA, Planned Parenthood, unions and on and on. To my knowledge, no other republic on earth has the lobbying machine that exists in Washington. Why is that? Why can't we get rid of it?

If you think your relatively high station in life is solely due to your own exertions, I suggest you contemplate randomness, and then, have the resolve to spend a week or more in a place like Panajachel. You will get more out of it than you put in and you will come back a different person with a different perspective on life.

If you think your relatively high station in life is solely due to your own exertions, I suggest you contemplate randomness, and then, have the resolve to spend a week or more in a place like Panajachel. You will get more out of it than you put in and you will come back a different person with a different perspective on life.