The homeownership rate in American has fallen to 66.9%, which is the lowest since 1999. I realize that times are tough and there are some people who can no longer afford a home simply because they have lost their job and are unable to find a new one. But there is a large segment of the population that had no business owning a house in the first place. There are people who need to be and remain renters. The only reason they owned a home in the first place is because the government forced mortgage companies to lend to people that couldn’t get a cup of water at a “We’ll tote ...

Here are two back-to-back headlines from Reuters: White House: Obama backs letting tax cuts on rich expire Obama pushes Congress to pass small business plan Don’t you see the obvious disconnect here? I cannot, for the life of me, understand why these people in Washington, and why Americans around this country, don’t get it. I’ve ranted endlessly that the people providing from 7 to 8 out of ten new and existing private sector jobs in this country are the very people that Barack Obama wants to hit with tax increases. What about this is so difficult to understand? I know that go...

I believe that all of you know my views on the two candidates that were vying for the job as the President of the United States of America. Arguably the most important job and person in the world. Well, obviously things didn’t go the way I had hoped and I do have reservations as to where our great nation is headed. However, all of my concerns aside, I cannot deny the amazing significance of what has just happened. It’s very easy to forget – especially for those of us who are on the younger side – that it was only a little over 40 years ago that there were Jim Crow laws ...

My friends, we have come to the end of a long journey. The American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly. A little while ago, I had the honor of calling Senator Barack Obama to congratulate him. To congratulate him on being elected the next president of the country that we both love. In a contest as long and difficult as this campaign has been, his success alone commands my respect for his ability and perseverance. But that he managed to do so by inspiring the hopes of so many millions of Americans who had once wrongly believed that they had little at stake or little influence in...

Come on! Put the celebrity worship aside for a moment. Put skin color aside. Just think about Obama and his “spread the wealth around” tax policy. Let’s talk heartbeats. Sounds weird, but I’m going somewhere here. A bit of Internet research led me to the fact that the average number of heartbeats in a life time for a human being is about one billion. To make this more understandable, the average human heart beats around 70 times a minute. In one eight-hour work day your heart beats around 33,600 times. This is your heart beating – every beat subtracted from...