Obama sees America as another country on the UN role call. Somewhere between Albania and Zimbabwe.

It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim Jong Il.

The solution to North Korea is the reunification of the Korean Peninsula. China could influence the North; it supplies 80 to 90 percent of North Korea's energy. The United States have to put pressure on China in order for China to pressure North Korea.

Texas is a big state. It's a major force in the Republican Party.

Maybe it's my libertarian philosophy: but being in government is hard.

There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuing interests that are fundamentally antithetical to your values. That's not the call of patriotism.

I am not a professional politician.