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?”

I have no doubt that Mitt Romney does “care about the poor” (his generous charitable giving is one indication). But you couldn’t tell by his announced intention to have the minimum wage automatically increase based on the inflation rate. Doesn’t this self-proclaimed “job-creator” know that the minimum wage keeps poor people poor by preventing them from getting a job and a chance to move up the economic ladder? As I’ve been saying, Romney is a hard sell as a conservative.

Thousands of Facebook employees are poised to become millionaires when the social-networking giant goes public. I wonder how long it will take them to figure out that the president’s demagoguery against the rich is targeting them?

Newt Gingrich tried to overcome his spectacular but oft-checkered past and reinvent himself for a long-odds presidential run. At first, he kept to the high road and gained a considerable audience, people eager for someone who could take on the disastrous Barack Obama. But facing a brass-knuckle response from a Republican establishment that had parted ways with him years before (and from the usual suspects in the media), Gingrich decided that revenge is the better part of valor.

Gingrich gave it a good run, but it is clear that he has peaked and has no chance of defeating Mitt Romney. It is time for him to do the classy thing and drop out now. He needn’t endorse Romney, though. Rick Santorum has a more consistent record than does the mercurial Gingrich and deserves a chance to face Romney head to head; perhaps Newt should consider endorsing the former senator from Pennsylvania. This would give Republican voters a final chance to decide whether they want a conservative or a Romney.

Despite the shellacking he will take in Florida today, I can think of two reasons why Rick Santorum should stay in the race: Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney.

Jesse Jackson, for whom every issue can be an excuse to race-bait, is comparing Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer to Alabama’s formerly racist governor, George Wallace. Brewer’s crime? She pointed a finger (not the middle one) at Barack Obama last week on the tarmac. This, the Rev. Jackson says, is the ultimate insult. Really?

Whatever words were exchanged between Obama and Brewer, the heated exchange is evidence–for anyone willing to open his eyes–of racial progress in this country, that two politicians, a woman and a black man, can go toe to toe as representatives of the people. Race and gender have nothing to do with it.

Someone needs to tell Jesse Jackson that it’s not the 1960s any more. But whatever the date, it’s long past time for him to retire, gracefully or otherwise.

If someone tells you that you will “save money” by spending, don’t believe it. You only save by not spending.