How many of you know someone who is alive today who was in World War II?  The number is diminishing all the time.  I feel very fortunate to still have my dad around.

Out of the 16 million World War II veterans, there are only around 1/2 a million still living.  Soon it will be impossible for us to talk first hand with someone who was actually there.  Our understanding will be restricted to whatever we can remember someone else saying or whatever we can find in history books.

This week we share our interview with Jim Downing, the oldest living survivor of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.  He’s 103 now!

It’s easy to be happy during the holidays, but it’s not the happiest time of the year for everyone.  Some people have a hard time around the holidays because of the instability in the relationships surrounding them.  Broken relationships and broken marriages affect many more people than just the two parties involved.

There is no governmental solution to make people stay together.  However, the government offers perverse incentives for single parenthood.  Additionally, the government has the power to put additional harm on people who are already in difficult situations.  We are at the point where the government has its tentacles in every part of our lives.

With Thanksgiving right around the corner it’s important for us to reflect on what we want the thank the Lord for this year.

Here’s my list:

1.)  I thank God we are still the most free and prosperous Nation in the world.  Because our prosperity is coupled with our love for one another, we share not only with our neighbors, but we are still the most generous benefactor to the world.

A little while ago, Dana Loesch and I were both getting ready to speak at a rally.  It always helps to process politics with others to broaden our perspective.

After 15 hours of working at the polls, I was pleasantly awakened late Tuesday night by a friend, Marie Lasater, who called to tell me she just beat a 20 year incumbent to win her election as County Coroner.  What a week of surprises!  Here are a few takeaways:

1.)  Don’t believe polls.  The only poll that counts is the one taken on election day when the ballots are counted.

2.)  Although both Hillary and her VP running mate blamed a part of her loss on her being a woman, don’t believe that for one minute.  Plenty of women, myself included, have run and won as women.  It’s not her gender that cost her the election.  It was her policies, e-mail and Benghazi scandals and condemnation of those who are on the middle to right end of the political spectrum.

Every election is an opportunity to exert our influence, yet one thing is sure…regardless of the outcome, the earth will continue to spin, most people will wake up and will go to school and work, the banks and the stock market will still be open and we will be able to listen to the TV and radio once again without having to hear all those annoying and adversarial political ads.

If you voted for a candidate whose number 1 priority is to protect and defend the Constitution, and can honestly say, “so help me, God”, you did your part to make a difference.  If you voted against giving more of your neighbor’s hard earned dollars to governmental bureaucracies, you made a difference.  If you voted for more personal responsibility and less socialism, you made a difference.  We may not be able to control the outcome, but we can have some satisfaction from knowing we engaged in the battle.