The country has moved off track. The people in Washington don't have the hard-nosed business experience needed to get the economy up and running.

I mean people up here aren't stupid, I'm lower gene pool and I kind of sit in amazement at watching some of them because they are pretty damn smart.

Clearly, high energy prices will have a large negative effect on the California economy and could possibly drag the rest of the nation into a recession.

The Washington economy is a job engine, growing in employment and drawing people from the sidelines into the job market.

I sit on the Drug Policy Subcommittee of the United States Congress. I'm on the speaker's task force. This is something people would rather turn away from and not face, but in fact it is possibly the greatest threat we face.

Running a school is like running a business. To do it well, you have to have experience with special situations like Red Bank's, and second, you have to be a people person who can talk to people and motivate people.