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Every president since Ronald Reagan has said the same thing about our border with Mexico: they want to secure it, and then deal with those who are here illegally. No president has successfully done either.

If you want to tax the “rich” and the oil companies, go ahead -- you get about $50 billion a year in revenue. Wasn’t this supposed to pay off the national debt?

Wrestling With the Truth: Let’s call this speech what it is -- a temporary jobs plan designed to get the unemployed working before the next election.

The U.S. Postal Service is looking more and more like our government: inefficient and mired in debt.

Since none of the current plans deal with the long-term deficit anyway, only the current account deficit, I want to put mine out there as a solution.

The U.S. economy is ok, as long as our planning for a perfect day happens as perfectly as we plan it.

We have the most futile Congress in history -- a national energy policy, if done correctly and adhered to, is something even they can’t mess up. 

I believe 2012 will be much more volatile than almost any year in recent history, so here is my list of predictions for 2012 and the odds of those predictions actually happening.

The government should get out of the car business.

We have floods costing billions in part of the country and drought costing billions in other parts-imagine a “shovel ready” job to address both issues.

The child molestation scandal at Penn State University allegedly involving former defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, and the people who may have covered it up, is a reputational issue that PSU will never get over. But aside from the stomach-turning details, an important question that remains unanswered is this: what’s going to happen to the school financially?..

If we are to be the world’s police can we at least ask the world to pay for it?

Whether it is a new Apple TV or another version of Internet enabled TV sets, TV and how we get content is destined to change, dramatically.

The U.S. economy and market depends on European politics as much as its own.

We have jobs that bring economic prosperity to regions paid for by private enterprise that are blocked by our government, but allowed by the only communist government in our region.

There has been another paradigm shift this week in technology and it means the tablet wars as we know them have changed.

Wine With Me: It's nice to relax with a nice glass of wine, but we often forget that it took a lot of manpower and business to make that bottle.

Wine With Me: Women are playing a more active role in the wine world and making this once-stuffy industry a little more fun. 

Wine With Me: We talk about diversification all the time when we discuss our investment portfolios, but it also plays a role in the wine industry.

Potential taxes could harm California's vineyards. After all, you can't really relocate a winery.