As America celebrates Memorial Day we pay tribute to those who have given their lives in our nation's wars.

Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

More and more political analysts and weak-kneed politicians are advising the historically pro-life Republican Party to abandon its pro-life stance for political gain. My first response is that if you cannot trust a party on the value of defending human life how can you trust it on issues like marginal tax rates?

We all know we have a problem a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem.

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.

Investing in industries and technology for the 21st century generates high-skilled high-wage jobs for industries of the future.

Interest does not tie nations together it sometimes separates them. But sympathy and understanding does unite them.

One is never ready for success. It consecrates and looses you at the same time.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

Anyone could be in the orchestra or sports team or arts club at my school. It was precisely the kind of inclusivity that now meets with a sort of scorn and derision as a prizes-for-all culture that generates only mediocrity. There's something so insulting about the idea that including lots of people means mediocrity.