It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.

If you've got a brand new administration coming into office you want to have, at the very least, a national security team in place on day one.

The minimum wage is mostly an entry-level wage for young people.

It's a shame that the president doesn't embrace the effort to reduce spending. None of us like using situations like the sequester or the debt ceiling or the operation of government to try to engage the president to deal with this.

Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?

America is about to turn the page on Barack Obama's four-year experiment in big government.

We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy.