The "trial balloon" must have been run up by the Democratic Party. With our current crop of viable candidates, there's no way in hell he would be put forward. We don't even refer to him as "Governor" anymore.

Atheism is the belief there was once absolutely nothing. And nothing happened to the nothing until the nothing magically exploded for no reason, creating everything and everywhere. Then a bunch of the exploded everything magically rearranged itself for no reason whatsoever into self-replicating bits which then turned into dinosaurs. And they mock my beliefs?

I'm going to send your column to my ex-wife. She says the world is ending because Dec. 21 is my birthday! The least we can do is share the blame.

My brother and I don't agree on nearly everything, but he's still my brother and I would give my life to defend him. What's so hard to understand about political polar opposites getting along outside of that arena?

DeMint was last elected in 2010, not last month.

Now we've got to find two new senators for South Carolina; one to attempt to fill Jim DeMint's shoes and another to replace that big government RINO.

Then collapse it should.

You're a true American. God bless you.

The flip side of the coin is people who are legitimately disabled, yet turned down for benefits. I talked to a random guy on the beach this summer. He lost his left leg in a motorcycle accident when someone pulled out in front of him (claimed sun in the eyes and didn't see him). He can no longer work as a roofer, yet was denied disability. His attorney encouraged him to claim depression; he refused. What's wrong with this system?

The problem with that is it is the federal government that is gaming the disability system, the food stamp system and every other system you can name.

They renamed the back row to the "forward" row, thereby solving the problem with government oversight at the cost of roughly the GDP of Mauritania, a bargain by today's standards.