Leadership is about being a servant first.

Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America's red states.

I spent 22 years in the United States military, so I'm a pretty strategic level thinker.

We must never forget why we have, and why we need our military. Our armed forces exist solely to ensure our nation is safe, so that each and every one of us can sleep soundly at night, knowing we have 'guardians at the gate.'

As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.

Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else.

There's nothing on this green earth that a liberal progressive fears more than a black American who wants a better life and a smaller government.