I have to admit, high school felt awkward. Years later, I found out that just about everyone felt awkward, but it would have made things easier knowing that back then. I always found the high school cliques interesting. Probably the best time to see the cliques on display was in the lunch [...]

As I write this there are less than 3 months until the primary election and I’ve been at this campaign for nearly 6 months now. It seems like a good time to renew my focus on the central principles of the platform on which I’m running.
That focus is, simply, the dignity of and respect [...]

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” – Samuel Johnson, 1775 (To be fair, others through history have said similar things but I thought it was interesting that it was something spoken in 1775.)
As I make my way around the district, I often speak of defending the Constitution. The [...]

“Credibility. Every person is challenged to maintain their personal credibility, and public figures should be no exception. The surest way to build this quality is to walk your talk. That is, a person’s actions speak louder than their words, and any mismatch between the two looks like hypocrisy.
Recently I read this message, “…the proposed freeze [...]

The President recently invited Republicans to talk with him about health care so I thought this might be a great opportunity to put some real solutions based on good fiscally conservative values into play. Although I know the vast majority of Americans are satisfied with their health care, and do not consider this another [...]

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Those words spoken by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, which captured the President’s irrepressibly positive attitude, were spoken not about WWII, but the economic upheaval of the 1930’s.
Today we’re told by Dr. Frank Luntz that what Americans really want is “freedom from fear”, and again America is [...]

Admiral Mullen, the current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and those in the military under him live in a world where your personal opinions and concerns must only be voiced in a certain way and absolutely never in a way that undermines leadership. I know because I lived it for 24 years [...]