All trends start with small sets of data points. But if you flesh in the picture for the year, that's not the case at all.

Every worker who doesn't join a union is another worker who doesn't pay $500 a year to organized labor's political machine.

A lot of young people just starting out unskilled, as all Americans do when they're born here, come to this country, and so the business community is for immigration. Big businesses, small businesses, high-tech, low-tech, the communities of faith, and the Republican leadership.

Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun.

Climate researchers had known for some time that various trends were emerging in the long-term data sets for things like temperature, precipitation, days with snow on the ground, length of growing season, as well as bloom dates.

We have to have a conversation about whether Obama's plan to increase spending to occupy Afghanistan helps make America a safer country, or not. I think at some point, we may decide that we don't have to have that size military and cost footprint in the country. You look at what you want to accomplish, how many soldiers you need.