Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.

We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers.

Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people.

America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.

Oh, the naive Obama State Department. They say we can't kill our way out of war. Really? Tell that to the Nazis. Oh wait, you can't. They're dead. We killed 'em.

What can we do to nurture and support a people capable of living in freedom?

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.