Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.

Many Americans are unaware that we still have a large population of working families, elderly, and children who rely on emergency food pantries, shelters, and other resources to meet their nutritional needs.

Now, I do come from a part of the country where the people say that the only thing in the middle of the road is a yellow line or roadkill.

Improving our national intelligence capabilities should remain a top priority and a continual process.

Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.

In rural areas of America, there is a growing increase in poverty, homelessness and hunger. You cannot separate these factors from domestic violence ?- a mother with three kids and no financial security is going to stiffen her lip and take the abuse, because not only does she have nowhere else to go, she has three children depending on her for survival.

It certainly makes no sense to enact more laws if we cannot, or do not, enforce the ones we have.