Founding fathers warned us of accumulated debt and of consequences which follow when undisciplined debt restricts sound policy decisions.

Currently, our federal government owes $16 trillion with no plan of debt reduction.  In fact, plans are underway to borrow and spend more of your tax dollars.

Oklahoma has a balanced budget amendment, but is $19 billion in debt using smoke and mirror appropriations and bond indebtedness.  There are no plans to reduce the magnitude of government and pay down the debt. Continue reading →

Wow…..What a day!  The President had been announcing that he would make a statement on energy today, but before I tell you the new technology that will save America from its dependency on foreign oil, it might be best to recap his previous efforts to save the planet during his first three years of office.

Keep in mind, he did say the oceans would recede as a result of his green energy policies and programs.

Our President has always loathed fossil fuels and those who produce them.  I’m sure you remember his pledge to regulate coal fired energy out of existence.  Before you say, “But he failed”, remember, he has another 300 days to accomplish this goal. Continue reading →

Here I sit – watching the 20^th Presidential debate – and each candidate is challenging the other with nit picking punches – with just a smidgen of deception – which only reinforces our perception that we have a dysfunctional government that cannot be fixed. Continue reading →

It was encouraging to see that not everyone in the police department joined the union considering that public employee unions nearly always are nothing more than a tool to ensure job security, salary protection, decreased hours and benefits at taxpayer largesse.  Continue reading →

Mothers don’t always know what nutritional needs are best for their children with respect to packing a school lunch for the child’s school day.

This week a North Carolina mother – believing she had packed a nutritious and palatable lunch – sent her four year old to school with a turkey and cheese sandwich, apple juice, banana and chips lunch which failed to meet United States Department of Agriculture requirements of one meat, milk, grains and two servings of fruit or vegetables.

The four year old was forced to eat a government approved chicken nugget lunch. Continue reading →

Tim Tebow has taught us much this past football season about ourselves and why we are prone to accept ridicule of faith as normal behavior and expression of faith in public as abnormal.

Coffee shop and cafeteria talk has me believing that too many of you think the Tebow phenomena was about a football player who made it to the “bigs”, but did not quite meet muster to play quarterback  in the NFL.

It is nothing of the sort.  Continue reading →