On the same day another man also attacked students at another elementary school. This knife wielding man left 22 children and one adult injured in central China. There is a difference in the lethality between a knife and a gun. But, in both cases, the assailants were allowed to roam the school hallways far too long. Harris and Klebold caused all the carnage at Columbine High School in just 16 minutes before they killed themselves. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-20723910

The same day another man also attacked students at another elementary school. This knife wielding man left 22 children and one adult injured in the Henan Province of China. There is a difference in the lethality between a knife and a gun. But, in both cases, the assailants were allowed to roam the school hallways far too long. Harris and Klebold caused all the carnage at Columbine High School in just 16 minutes before they killed themselves. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-20723910

I must disagree with the GOP candidates on Leadership. Obama is an excellent leader. Only a great leader can convince this nation to move in the wrong direction. At issue is the fact that he is still trying to lead us to socialism after "We the People" keep rejecting it. It is not an issue of leadership. If Obama wanted to lead this nation to prosperity and keep us at the head of the global table of nations we would be there. The issue is the direction he is leading us. I for one don't want to go there.

It is an old joke that the reason we are in Korea is to keep the South Koreans from going North.

"High taxes on the rich do not take burdens off the poor. They put burdens on the poor. As far as our company is concerned, we can go on about as we now are, whether the surtax be 25% or 50%. We can make some improvements, but we cannot do the great things we should do had we more money. We cannot make such progress in the next fifteen years as we have in the last fifteen, and all other forward-looking companies will be in exactly the same boat." Henry Ford, From Taxation: The People's Business by Andrew Mellon, 1924 http://ia700508.us.archive.org/2/items/taxationthepeopl033026mbp/taxationthepeopl033026mbp.pdf

have never viewed taxation as a means of rewarding one class of taxpayers or punishing another. If such a point of view ever controls our public policy, the traditions of freedom, justice and equality of opportunity, which are the distinguishing characteristics of our American civilization, will have disappeared and in their place we shall have class legislation with all its attendant evils. TAXATION: THE PEOPLE'S BUSINESS pp11-12 Andrew Mellon, 1924 http://www.archive.org/stream/taxationthepeopl033026mbp/taxationthepeopl033026mbp_djvu.txt