Ours was a family torn apart by divorce when I was only 6-years-old. So, I know too well the destructive effects that the dissolution of the family brings. When the familial relationship which God intended is broken, everyone involved suffers. Things are not as they should be and what is desperately needed is God’s restorative grace and mercy upon all involved. My mother was the instrument of this grace in my life and our family as a whole.

I would have thought that a so-called educated bunch that allegedly knows what is best for the rest of us could have come up with something more ingenious than suggesting there is a “War on Women.” But then, I guess their points weren’t holding up, so they had to revert to childhood methods of trying to stop the intended from listening to the opposition by making the person (people) mad at them. I can just hear the conversation of two little kids.

In the last several columns, I have described the investment science that supports dynamic asset allocation. Think of static asset allocation as where to set your sails and dynamic asset allocation as a way to keep your balance as your boat glides and sometimes bounces through the waves.

When will enough be enough? When will citizens rise in their righteous anger and demand not a New Deal, not a Great Society, a New Frontier or a Fundamentally Transformed America but instead their original deal. The one we wrested from the hands of the tyrant King George. The one we’ve fought to establish and defend from Yorktown to Kandahar and the right of a people to be free to live as they desire, to work for their own benefit and choose their own destiny.

Two new political parties have been formed and are now official in South Dakota. One could ask wasn’t the Republican or Democratic parties good enough for them? Obviously not. Why? Is all the haggling in Washington at least part of the cause? I believe it is. Forming new political parties is certainly a symptom of that disease in our nation’s capitol.

World War II ended in Europe on MAY 7, 1945, when German emissaries met at General Dwight Eisenhower’s Headquarters, a schoolhouse in Reims, France, and signed an unconditional surrender. The War in Europe lasted five and half years, costing millions of lives. After the war, Eisenhower was elected the 34th President by the largest number of votes in history.