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.

Sometimes we're actually right when we go with our gut and stand on principle in supporting underdog candidates.

To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that's exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his.

We know the only fish that goes with the flow is a dead fish.

The Republican Party would be really smart to absorb as much of the Tea Party movement as possible.

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

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