Try not to be more spiritual than the Bible is. You might find you are following the wrong spirit.

Our nation faces a fiscal time bomb requiring drastic action, and the best Republicans can come up with to challenge President Obama is Mitt Romney? Something is wrong with “the process” if all the best candidates choose not to run and we are left with a rich, handsome moderate with name recognition whom no one (except fellow Mormons) really wants. And it appears that Romney, supposedly “the most electable,” trails the president in a head-to-head match-up. Well, I suppose that if the Mormon Church does really well this year at its proselytism, then perhaps the Mittster will have a chance.

Planned Parenthood threatened to put Susan G. Komen for the Cure out of business this week. And they say they are for women’s health? This ugly incident shows their real priorities. I think it’s time we put Planned Parenthood (so-called) out of business. Let’s start with all that juicy government funding.

Even Republicans seeking the ouster of Barack Obama can cheer that the economy apparently generated 243,000 jobs last month. Of course, it has only cost us $5 trillion to get here, we should be getting a lot more at this point in a “recovery,” economists are nonetheless predicting a rise in the jobless rate later this year, and the actual number of people working is 2 million fewer than it was the month before.

So I know you’ll forgive me if I don’t get too excited about the reported drop in the unemployment rate. Before you get carried away by the hype, keep asking yourself, “Am I better off now than I was four years ago?”