Audie Murphy remains a shining example for anyone who believes in the importance of service, for generations now and into the future.

I come by my conservatism authentically, not by convenience. And I offer the American people a new direction.

There's places where a secure fence will work, and that strategic type fencing will work. But the idea that people can easily just stand up and say, oh, let's build a fence and be done with it, wipe our hands, it's going to secure the border, that's not reality.

Those jobs flee other states because of factors like excessive taxation, punitive regulation and frivolous lawsuits.

Debates are set up for nothing more than to tear down the candidates. It's pretty hard to be able to sit and lay out your ideas and your concepts with a one-minute response.

But of course, now we're told we're in recovery but this sure doesn't feel like a recovery to more than 9 percent of the Americans out there who are unemployed, or the 16 percent of the African-Americans, 11 percent of Hispanics in the same position, or the millions who can only find part-time work or those who have even stopped looking for a job.

I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.