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San Bernardino, once a blue-collar town with a solid middle class, has become the poorest and most dangerous city in California. I see a lot of the comments from people who say - you spend a lot of time driving around, showing everyone rundown America. Where are you from? Why don’t you pick on YOUR home town.

In the seventies Richard Nixon decided by executive order, to remove the requirement to have gold reserves for every dollar minted. Over the years since his administration, we have slowly increased the printing of money, at rates that out weighed the reasonable amount of what existed as reserves. Not until President Obama’s administration have we seen such a total disregard for our financial system. The reasoning for my claim works this way. Printing money 24/7 does NOT mean we have more money. Increased spending on government programs while spacing out the time line in which to pay it back does...

TOPEKA | A bill requiring Kansas voters to show photo identification in 2010 elections was vetoed today by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius. The measure — HB 2019 — was similar to a measure she threatened to veto during last year’s legislative session. Last year’s measure failed, but this year’s version passed through the efforts of the Republican majorities in the House and Senate. Sebelius is a Democrat. In her veto message, the governor said the bill created a roadblock that prevents citizens from voting. “Additionally, no elected official should support enacting new laws discouraging or disenfranchising any American who has been...