Let's do more than say the 'Pledge of Allegiance.' Let us live it!

There are people walking around the streets of Kansas City who are unemployed, while one of our largest employers is not only sending jobs aboard, but then turning around and making a statement about preserving jobs.

We can be fervent in our disagreements without being factitious with our beliefs.

We may be a nation of Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, but first and foremost we are all human beings and Americans.

I have family in Tanzania. I can't even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running.

Hope fills the holes of my frustration in my heart.

Community colleges need to be upgraded. We got to have training for real jobs. We've got a lot of jobs that are going unfilled because we don't have the technology in the heads of graduating college students to deal with them.