The RNC got $100 from me when Paul Ryan was chosen as VP running mate. They muzzled him during the campaign and I never gave another dime. In seeing how they finished the 2012 campaign and their post mortem acts since the election, they will not receive another contribution from me. It is time for a conservative party. Color, race, sex, wealth or religious classes is irrelevant. Only Americans who believe in preserving the principles of our Declaration and Constitution.

Beautifully done, Mr. Barber. I've made my choice, too and regardless of how our secular progressive world will persecute and demagogue me, I will call sin, sin. I will continue to recognize my sins, repent and ask for forgiveness. I will also remember that Jesus loves homosexuals just as much as he loves me. I will pray that they repent from their sinful behavior and I will grant them the grace that God commands I grant.

The fallacy in the article is that the author fails to recognize that cash and investments are also part of one's net worth. You don't build or increase your net worth when you pay down your mortgage, because you are spending an asset "cash" to do so. Sure, it would be great to pay less mortgage interest for your home purchase. The idea behind 30 year mortgages is that the buyer can live in a home he may not currently have the cash for, while financing it with someone else's money. Most people don't have $500K+ cash to pay for a house and are in perilous job and cash reserve positions. Therefore, use borrowed money to finance your home and pay down the mortgage over a reasonable time while you continue to earn, save and invest.

The real risk is putting your head in the sand, doing nothing and allowing your government to become tyrannical. See American Revolution.

Overall good advice regarding teaching financial life lessons to our kids. It is sorely needed. One clarfication: You need to file the tax reurn due to the modeling income, not because you contributed to a Roth IRA.

Thank you Mr. Brown and God Bless you. As Christians, we must also understand our greatest gift from God, His grace. All humans fall, but it is a defining requirement of Christians to forgive, as God forgave us.

This and many other flaws in Social Security prove that the only true "reform" is to privatize the system or totally scrap it.

It's not just you, Ron. I see it and other "glorifying" propaganda constantly.

"Flip flop" is far too kind. Obama is a liar and a dishonest person.

The minimum wage debate is just another way the left enables its supporters to avoid personal responsibility. Should we aspire to "minimum wage" or should we gain an education and skills that will pay us far above it? Conservatives believe in the latter. The left tells its band of nanny statists that a low wage causes their poverty, not their lack of education or employable skills.

Thanks Jack, always good to hear from a "hate America" loon. By the way, Jack, if the history doesn't exist, why are we not sipping the King's tea, or better yet, goose stepping in our Nazi uniforms? Why is slavery no more in the USA, but it exists in other parts of the world, including black on black slavery? Men are not God. Therefore, ALL men (and ALL countries) have made errors and have had dark times, and will again. The USA, however, is the one country that thrives because its founding allows it to learn and heal from its mistakes and continually push towards freedom. Yes, people like Obama set us back from time to time, but we shall overcome. C'mon Jack, time for some understanding and grace.