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These days it seems like everybody is running for president. Guys you’ve heard, guys you haven’t, and guys you don’t even want to hear about. There are governors, senators, formers and current CEOs of large companies and even a retired neurosurgeon getting into the act. There are so many candidates that soon we might be hearing Bugs Bunny has finally decided to try for the GOP Nomination. (That is one candidacy I might find myself backing, by the way.)   But back in January, Paul Ryan, the running mate on Mitt Romney’s ultimately doomed ticket in 2012, announced he is not running. Of course, that didn’t make the national news in a big way; nobody started around the clock coverage of his decision not to run. But now that announcing a bid for the Republican nomination seems to have become the Grand Old Party’s pastime, it seems like Ryan’s decision not to run should have received more attention, for the reasons he gave were not only good ones, but they showed a level of maturity many...

Rick Santorum Today, near Pittsburgh, Rick Santorum, former Senator from Pennsylvania, two time candidate for president, and hard-liner right wing conservative announced that he trying a second time to become the President of the United States. Iowa radio talk show host Steve Deace, a controversial man widely credited with being kingmaker in Iowa in the 2008 election, costing Romney the nomination then, told me this morning “I don't see a path, but Rick's entire political career has been overcoming the odds from his very first race.” Santorum is not in the top tier of candidates at this moment in the polls, but that does not, by any stretch of the imagination mean he is out of the race. Far from it. History is speckled with long shot contestants coming from nowhere to win, and Santorum has what quite a few politicians in the race for the Republican Nomination do not: strong backing not only for his agenda, but for him personally. Santorum’s route to nomination will not be easy....

Im1 America considers itself the greatest country in the world. Rightly so. No other nation in world history has been as successful in defending freedom, opportunity, and openness for all as we have. We are the nation that invented the airplane, developed the automobile, put a man on the moon, won both World Wars against authoritarian governments seeking domination of innocent people, and we are the nation that has made so many advances in so many areas that it is impossible to name them all. We are a country whose leader is considered the leader of the free world, and indeed, is the most powerful person on the planet. But every four years Americans can go to the polls, and vote him or her out, and they do. And our president, with enough fire power at his fingertips to blow the entire planet out of existence simply steps down meekly. It is a part of the miracle of America, where you can believe what you want, and say what you want, and not strung up on a light pole, or beaten to de...