I have to agree but for different reasons. I don't have a problem with friendly Muslims and they do exist in America. However, ones coming with lots of money to pay cash for a house could very well be financed with terrorist money. Drug dealers from around the world also happen to have lots of cash on hand. So do human traffickers. So do gun runners. Any legitimate person with lots of money would probably be able to get a house over here anyway, either as a vacation home or for permanent citizenship. Not well thought out Ms. Chavez.....please don't give Obama any other horrible ideas. He has too many of his own already.

I wish everyone I know could read this post. Very well said! Now why is there NO ONE fighting for school choice amongst our candidates for office? I desperately think the conversation nationally should be centered on school choice and reforming our failing education system and yet is seems very low on the totem pole.

I would really like for a Republican to own up to repealing the Glass Steagal Act which allowed companies like Goldman Sachs to make bad loans pushed by the Democrats and then make money on a short when they went bad. Not one Republican had the sense to think out how the banks could easily compromise their ethics to make money when they did that. It was the combination of bad Republican and bad Democrat policies that brought about this current horrid economic state and I am a grudging Republican at this point. I like Bachman, would definitely vote for her and campaign for her over Obama but I just wish ONE Republican would take a little ownership of the problem as well.

Unions are going to the wayside because they have served the majority of their purpose....to prevent sweatshop conditions in the U.S. Most of our generally nice labor laws come from the historical efforts of the unions. Sick time, family medical leave, mandatory overtime, child labor laws. I am not anti-union at all. I think the unions have done great things for America BUT I should also not be forced to join one or pay for one if I think the benefits/pay I receive are adequate without a union. That is all that right to work laws are really. They don't ban unions but they don't force people to join one either. There is MORE choice in right to work states, not less. Isn't freedom of choice an American standpoint? let me guess,...

some are like Paul Ryan my new personal hero but the elitist old party Repubs (McCain, Graham, etc) don't want to sign on to such a drastic overhaul of the U.S. Too scared they may have to use their brains to debate the actual issues instead of just talking points and patriotic buzz words. *sigh* I'd give anything to have Ryan run in 2012 and a million more like him. At least he's real, unlike Romney or Palin who might as well be talking bobbleheads.

Why do even most authors on townhall shy away from radically overhauling the education system in America? Moving to vouchers and allowing school choice would radically reign in education spending while vastly raising the learning curve for students of all backgrounds. Education right now is a one size fits all situation. Vouchers and school choice would allow parents the power to personalize their child's education to their child's intellectual as well as spiritual and emotional needs. I would put my child in a Christian private school if I could. Atheists could still put their children in non-religious competitive schools. Parents with discipline problem children could send their kids to schools that specialize in emotional...

Tracee, it sounds like you did everything you could. Although I firmly believe in making divorce a very difficult process and attaching an at fault status in every case (in yours, your spouse should be 100% at fault and should pay alimony and child support accordingly for stepping out on you) one can only try so hard to keep a marriage together if your partner is not in step. I'm not judging anyone's personal situation. Marriage is one of life's greatest challenges. I just think more people might stay engaged longer or not get married in the first place to the wrong person if we brought back the premise that marriage is for life. My strategy is carrot and stick. Incentivize couples financially to make things work. Severely punish...

My divorce response back to Tracee was someone citing other reasons besides abuse as a reason for getting a divorce. Obviously, no person should have to stay with an abusive spouse and for this occasion an immediate, at fault divorce would be issued. No need to call names.

However, the vast majority of divorces are not people leaving abusive relationships. Most divorces involve spouses who married too young, didn't marry the "dream prince or princess" they thought they were getting (i.e. married too fast) and people who are too lazy to take their committment to heart and actually work on their relationship. Some Hollywood examples might include Tom Cruise and his first two wives, Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, Jon and Kate...

NO marriage penalty in taxes. Married couples should get better tax benefits than single parents. Sorry to single parents out there but people need the incentive to try to make things work. Get RID of no fault divorce. Put a 2 year waiting limit and mandatory counseling and mandatory cohabitation during the 2 year time frame before granting a divorce. Whoever walks out first is "at fault" and should pay a severe financial burden for that. Sorry, Tracee, taking your family for granted is not a reason to dissolve a relationship. Marriage is for life, good and bad. Too many people now think, if it doesn't feel good, get out of it. That's bad for the country and really bad for children. We need school choice! A voucher system...

I remember having conversations exactly like this with my father when I was young. Thank God I grew up and started using my brain instead of all those youthful emotions to evaluate the government and the economy. The real solution to this whole mess would have been to let all the bad businesses fail. Then the liberals would have felt good at punishing the big bad wealthy executives and the conservatives would have felt good to punish the big, stupid corporations that got greedy at the expense of many people's homes and retirement funds.