CONUNDRUM

It already IS illegal to enter our country improperly. Can you "square" illegal? Do you get llegal-er?

Everyone agrees that immigration is not a good situation. So then why isn't something done? President Bush kept us safe but did nothing about the border. Why? What motives by elected officials keep the border open? And how can there be so many varied camps in this immigration issue?

There is one Latino in the Senate, New Jersey's Senator Menendez. Last week he called for a Major League baseball players boycott of AZ. He also said "IF there is a greater border presence necessary, it should be in the form of additional border patrol agents." IF, Senator? IF? New Jersey must be a "fer piece" from the border. Or perhaps the Senator lacks the ability to see this issue as it affects the country as a whole.

Then there is President Obama making a joke about the issue. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLgZ1LWLlko His Attorney General and his Homeland Security Secretary (and others in the administration) spoke vociferously against what AZ passed. Well, they spoke vociferously until someone asked them if they had read the bill. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rH1FEcbi4A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIwI1ICYCFE&feature=PlayList&p=EAD4BE57D39D9938&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=4

On another side there are the compassionates. They are good-willed people plus some Open Border people who must think that everyone has a right to live here and the country can accommodate everyone. I wonder if the compassionates' back yards looked like this if they would protect their property?

We've all heard of the AZ rancher who tried to protect his property. He and his dog were killed on March 27, 2010. The fifty-eight year old Rob Krentz (below) was a husband and father and granddad. His land had been in his family for 100 years. What would you do if your land became a drug corridor?

Armed burglaries are commonplace there as the drug smugglers deliver their goods and then rob on their way back through to Mexico. You wouldn't want to leave home for fear they would take it all. You certainly would be afraid to leave your wife at home alone. Rob Krentz had multiple burglaries and he had complained to law enforcement for years. The killer is at large, but the sheriff followed footprints back to Mexico.

Mike hunted back in the 60's with a college friend who had a ranch out in west Texas. Even back then, Mike can remember that they would come up on one of the unoccupied houses on the ranch and it was always unlocked. The policy was to leave it unlocked so transients wouldn't tear up the house getting in...and they left cans of frijoles prominently out on the kitchen table. Mike's rancher friend did the best he could to protect his family back then by basically bribing them to come and go peacefully.

There is another group in the immigration issue, the guilt crowd. Life is good for them and they feel bad that everyone does not share prosperity. Most people DO appreciate the life we have in this country. But if faux remorse swells the number of people and sinks the ship, our opportunity to do good for others goes down, too. America has an immigration plan that has worked in the past. Visit Ellis Island and look at what those immigrants wanted. They longed to come here and share the American experience. They demonstrated good faith by learning our language and fighting in our army and demonstrating their productivity. They wanted to become Americans. Ellis Island also teaches that people were admitted because of what they had to add as citizens. Criminals and people with communicable diseases need not apply. That's a far cry from today.

Our country is generous with her resources. We have always reached out to the poor and the oppressed. If our immigration policy needs to be tweaked, then let's TWEAK IT. But secure the border! We cannot continue to fling wide the door by enticing people to come here with offers of free healthcare and anchor babies and free schooling and sanctuary cities and free housing and free food. It was well intentioned in the beginning. It might have started out with a can of frijoles in the 60's, but you and I live in today's results.

And today the screen door opens, and a duke's mixture comes in. True, some are just people desperate to improve life for themselves and their family they left behind. They may not have any idea of becoming Americans (so they are not "immigrating")...and they endure abominable treatment in the process. Even so, are they the greatest danger? No. Borders must be regulated to protect us from the deadly undesirables - terrorists and drug runners and gangs who kidnap and kill. They hardly fit the inscription on the Statue of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." NONE of these undesirables yearn to breathe free; they yearn to enslave and kill.

Have we taken leave of our senses? Truly, the enemy is at our gate. Yes, Senator Menendez, we DO need a greater border presence and it will take more than just border patrol. And President Obama, it will take more than that token 1,200 Guardsmen you just sent.

We need to protect our land so America may continue to be the shining city on a hill.

TEXAS ON MY MIND

Mike and I headed west on I40 toward Texas longhorn country for two reasons: we needed some margin in our lives, and Mike wanted to kill a turkey.

We drove 333 miles across the middle of Oklahoma and into the panhandle of the great state of Texas.

They do everything big in Texas, with the exception of the first TX town on I40 big enough for a McDonalds...a town called Shamrock, Texas.

Population in Shamrock hit it's peak in the 30's with 4,000 folks, but they have half that today. Because the town is also on old Route 66, there are some really neat old restored gas stations in town.

State Hwy 83 runs north and south through Shamrock. Mike has hunted for ten years in that area. A rancher friend has property close to two nearby towns on Hwy 83. Wheeler is 17 miles north of Shamrock...and Wellington is 26 miles south of Shamrock.

Those two small towns each are county seats and both have nice courthouses.

You may remember Wheeler, Texas. That is where George Bush announced his candidacy for the presidency. He was having lunch at Maxie's when he made the announcement.

We ate at Maxie's and it was chocked full of people with straw cowboy hats and shiny buckles and iPhones...and the parking lot was full of pickups and Escalades.

Wheeler is oil country.

The town to the south, Wellington, has to work harder for their identity. When Mike and I pulled into the RV campground outside of Wellington, we parked under huge cottonwood trees beside the fork of a river. The helpful camp hosts (Austin and Patsy) had lots of information to help us settle in.

They told us that we were in an area without TV/cell phone coverage. They told us about the places in town to eat. Wellington has less than a half-dozen restaurants and they all close at 2pm, so you have to be purposeful.

Patsy and I talked a long time about their community and she explained that they were important because of Bonnie and Clyde...

In 1933 Clyde Barrow was barreling north on Hwy 83 (then a dirt road) going 70 mph (at night) in a stolen v8 Ford that could outrun every one of the "laws" that tried to catch them.

But that night, Clyde didn't see a detour sign and he plowed through a barricade, went airborne, and landed upside down in the Salt Fork of the Red River where Mike is wading.

If you would like to read more about Bonnie and Clyde, I would recommend the book ("Go Down Together") that the camp host shared with me. It came out in 2009 and was diligently researched. Because it had history about the founding of Dallas...plus history of the 30's...it was interesting. Bonnie and Clyde's lives were not the lives portrayed in Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway's 1967 movie.

https://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-9781416557067-0

After lunch in town at the Taco Shack, we headed back to the motor home. Mike was going hunting and I was going to read my borrowed book.

Mike left and I began reading and enjoying having the windows open and the breeze blowing. Then the wind picked up and the coach began rocking. After about an hour, I realized I was hot (think beaker frogs) and checked to find it was 91 degrees inside. Boy, I WAS into my book. I turned on the air conditioner and looked out at a brown sky. It was dark and there was a dust storm. We had noticed as we drove from town that farmers were disking to plant their cotton. My book was talking about the Dust Bowl in the 30's, and I could EASILY understand how that happened. I wondered how the farmer down the road could plant when most of his dirt seemed to be on my teeth...

Now my mind was multi-tasking (reading and watching the sky). Plus I was remembering the camp host's admonition about the increased rattlesnakes this year. My husband had worn his high snake boots, but he was out crawling around in shin oak underbrush. And also in this 35-40 mph wind, how was he even going to get a shot off that hit the mark?

I didn't stew for long...in 90 minutes Mike was back. When I first saw him, I figured he had given up hunting because he wasn't able to see 20 yards in front of his face. But no, he quit because he had a turkey. My husband is quite the hunter/gatherer.

Later, when Texas was in our rear-view mirror, Mike and I missed the longhorns and the big country. But we had claimed our "space" and our turkey. And now we know a little about Texas history. Someone said that travel broadens one's horizons and reminds us that there are other worlds out there. Texas did seem to be another world. A big one.

But an even bigger world is coming when we hear the trumpet sound...

"Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven saying: “The kingdom of the world HAS BECOME the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and He will reign for ever and ever.” Revelation 11.15 NET

Didn't someone named Handel write a song about that moment in time?

FROM GORISM TO MOTHER'S DAY

Are you familiar with the word "Gorism"? I read a piece by Victor Davis Hanson @ http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/thoughts-on-gorism/ that explained the term. Here's how Mr. Hanson began...

"We all know that Al Gore has become a near billionaire through tirelessly warning the Western world that our daily habits have ruined the planet and nearly doomed us. Gore argues that what we take for granted - the too large homes in which we live, the carbon-spewing cars that we drive, the superfluous vacations and energy-hogging appurtenances that we enjoy - are all pernicious to the environment, and unsustainable."

So, what's a Gorism?

First you have to set aside the fact that the ex-Vice President has become almost a BILLIONAIRE from the global warming business. And forget that he thinks OUR homes are too large. Forget that to commute between HIS four luxury homes, the jet he rides might give off more CO2 than our rides combined. Now...we can enjoy the absurdity of Mr. Gore throwing caution to the wind and buying a California ocean-view 8.8 million dollar "villa" (see pictures @

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/05/exclusive-estimate-carbon-footprint-of.html )...

while warning US of the rising sea levels.

A Gorism, then, is saying one thing and doing another. Mr. Hanson gave some other examples of this hypocrisy:

...the kazillionaire George Soros decries capitalism while making his moolah in currency

speculation

...John Edwards talking constantly about how America was two nations, yet he built what Mr. Hanson called "a Neroian Golden House" (note from Susan: that ain't all of the great divide between what Mr. Edwards was saying/doing)

...Jeremiah Wright spewing sermons on "white man's greed runs a world in need" while living in

a mostly white, very expensive golf course community

...and, of course, our President who earns $5 million (expenses picked up by us) lamenting out loud about why rich people seem to want even more money that they don't need

These examples are left-leaning, but duplicity has no political party homepage. Think Senator Mark Sanford in South America; think Senator Larry Craig in the bathroom stall. Let's face it. Hypocrites are some hard folks to love. Abraham Lincoln said a hypocrite was like a man who murdered both his parents and then pleaded for mercy because he was an orphan. They really have the chutzpah.

What do Al Gore or Mark Sanford or John Edwards have in common? They put self first while sanctimoniously denying others the same privileges. Isn't that self-exaltation...to assume the rules apply to everyone but them? What does God think of folks who self-exalt?

"My hands have made both heaven and earth, and they are mine. I, the Lord, have spoken! I will bless those who have humble and contrite hearts, who tremble at my word." Isaiah 66.2

Yet He LOVES them. He says ALL have availability to His love. Then walking His talk, Christ volunteered for the ultimate self-abandonment. His choice to love others more than His own life set the bar high. Wouldn't "selfless" be the opposite of a person full of himself?

Who do you know that is selfless?

Would it be a missionary? A soldier? A dad who dies to self and works more than one job for his family?

A mother?

On Mother's Day and every day, we should thank the Lord for the selfless ones. They are a rare breed.

Here are two wonderful mothers that Mike and I are giving thanks for:

TAKING THE WRONG EXIT

Nate was telling me not too long ago about a friend of his from preschool. Their friendship was on and off and Nate described it by saying "I want to be his friend, Mimi, but it's tricky".

Gotcha, Nate. That describes my last few days; they have not been my best.

I took the wrong exit off the relational highway by reacting to some misunderstandings and mischaracterizations. Well, they looked like that from my side.

The feeling of defensiveness and the need to explain myself swelled up inside me. I was overwhelmed with the need to set someone straight. It has been a long time since I've been that angry and it surprised me that it couldn't be put aside. For the better part of two days I simmered. In the middle of the night I woke up thinking about the situation and couldn't go back to sleep. Anger was controlling me. I am not so much of a hollerer like old Jack and Adam in the picture. My anger is more internal.

Not wanting to consult the Lord (because I knew His anger verses)...I brooded. I didn't want to hear the Ephesians 4.26 stuff about the sun not going down on my anger because I wasn't quite through being miserable yet. I didn't want to hear that love was not touchy or resentful (1 Corinthians 13.5) because I MIGHT have been a bit touchy, but I had every right to be offended. Then there's that meddler James (from 1.20) who says my anger can never make things right in God's sight. Hush, James.

Of course, the truth is that anger is an emotion and not a sin. The sin comes as anger is cherished (as I did) and a person refuses to address it (forgive) and move on.

When I got up the next morning, my body and spirit were WAAAY miserable from lack of sleep. In self-defense, my spirit began to relent. The "want" to eat dirt/apologize was not there yet, but I found myself starting to put my words down in a letter to own what I could. Beginning to feel a release in my spirit, I realized that the thing that had caused me to bow up was now losing it's power over my disposition.

Then something pretty cool happened. God showed up.

God is so faithful. Well, that's His name. El HaNe'eman (from Deuteronomy 7.9) means Faithful God. I couldn't call that name or spell it, but THAT MORNING I knew the truth of the character trait. It came from a tweet from Dennis Rainey that caused me to perk up. I recognized that voice! Dennis wrote the tweet, but he was speaking for Someone else. And the tweet that day said we should pray that our heart would not be eager to be angry, but that being "slow to anger" would be more our speed. Dennis listed Ecclesiastes 7.9 as his reference: "Do not be eager in your heart to be angry, for anger resides in the bosom of fools".

Hmmm. Fools? That must be because anger eats up the angry person's insides. Then I turned to The Message and got a better understanding:

"Don't be quick to fly off the handle. Anger boomerangs. You can spot a fool by the lumps on his head."

BINGO. Lumpy knew that the One who spoke heaven and earth into existence...had kindly bent to whisper into her ear that morning. Now I was getting the "want to". I asked Him to forgive my churlishness and hurried to finish the letter.

It feels good to please your Father. It feels good to be set free from that chokechain. Father does know best.

GOT COMPASSION?

If a person is suffering and I feel for them, I am said to be empathetic. But if I am moved to help alleviate the person's pain, I take it to the next level and show compassion.

That's what the Good Samaritan did. Wiki says compassion is considered to be one of the greatest virtues. Yet regarding compassion toward the poor, not everyone can agree on just what that looks like.

There are many good-willed people that feel empathy for the poor. Some perhaps feel giving to the poor is best accomplished by government. They would not be against higher taxes because they feel giving to the poor is an appropriate use of their tax money.

I wonder what they think as they look across at people in another party with opposing views. Maybe it looks like compassion-deficit over here.

It is a timely question to answer: what does it mean to show true compassion toward the poor?

Back in the early 90's, Mike and I volunteered at a housing project called Eastgate Terrace. There were 178 units there, and our church had an outreach called the STEP program (Serving to Equip People). STEP was a neighborhood outreach that began with a ministry to children.

They added a mentor program in the schools to be able to keep up with the children's academic needs. There were summer clubs (like Vacation Bible School) and throughout the school year, STEP maintained clubs that had components of mentoring, homework, Bible study, and fun.

The program was always evolving in order to meet needs, but there were certain fixed guidelines. The guardrails were based on biblical principles. I learned a lot while serving with STEP, and it challenged all my preconceived ideas about what compassion was...or was not.

*Because Christ loves us as we are (and not because of what we do for Him), the STEP worker was to come alongside the children and give of themselves in a relationship...just as the Lord does. One-on-one time communicates huge concepts.

*Because Christ values people over things, the STEP worker was not to buy for the children. STEP had limited funding for family emergencies so that help could come from the organization, but not from individuals. Money can corrupt relationships.

*Because Christ said that His Word was to be a light to our path, the STEP worker helps a child learn to study Scripture and recognize God's direction as they pray to ask the Lord to meet their needs. Money pales alongside the opportunity to

be a part of connecting a soul to God.

*Because Christ spoke about the value of work and accountability and dependability...the STEP worker lets the kids know that coming to their club meetings (on time and regularly) is their "work" and their faithfulness will

result in a field trip at the end of the month.

But this felt so foreign. I'm used to meeting my own needs. It would be the most natural thing for me to whip out plastic when a child needed tennis shoes. It was actually excruciating to not provide. Greater lessons were being learned on both sides of the relationship.

There is no way that money can fill the hole in these people's lives. They need dignity, respect, a sense of accomplishment, friendship, and importantly, hope....along with their need of economic opportunity.

Now perhaps you are thinking that this is a nice little program and it is possible because someone else is actually providing the chunk of change. I agree that there is a place for SOME government financial help. But government help has whopperjawed to the point that it harms more than it helps. Throwing money over a fence at people may SEEM compassionate. Americans are glad something is being done to alleviate suffering. They know suffering is present and they want to help. But from our years at Eastgate, we had a unique perspective of the harm done.

When President Johnson began his Great Society, it seemed like a good idea. But the Great Society decimated the black family. It brought a generation of single mothers (which of itself aggravates poverty). It brought population density which wrought crime and violence onto neighborhoods. It made the black male a phantom propagator. It brought victimhood and poverty and anger and slothfulness and addictions. On "check day" you can add fighting and stealing.

One party in national politics claims high ground on this issue. By shoveling money at the problem, they are supposedly "compassionate". But as you look at Detroit or New Orleans or Chicago (cities with the same party leadership for thirty years or more), you cannot tout "better lives" for all that money dropped in. Instead, it created a permanent underclass. And then the residents vote the party line and perpetuate their refugee camp status, while thinking someone is helping them.

So why doesn't the system work? Much of poverty legislation contradicts biblical principles. Can something be virtuous, yet not God-honoring? What does God have to say about work? Would He pay someone not to work? In His economy, work is the way a person provides (gives up his life) for his family. Work provides a place of influence to share Christ...and provides money to support God's work.

Work builds self-worth and satisfaction and perseverance and a sense of contribution and identity. We are all familiar with 1Thess. 3.10 "If anyone is not willing to work, neither should he eat." Work is part of God's design for our lives.

What about paying a woman's expenses if she has children? That has negated a man's place of family headship. Would God go for that one? What has paying single women to have kids led to? If you are black, you are more likely to be in a single parent home than a home with two parents. You therefore automatically will have a harder chance to "make it". Again, not compassionate.

OK, so if I'm so smart...what is the answer? Well, I like what Rick Warren has said. He points out that America has sent piles of money to Africa for relief. Has it helped? No. Why? It doesn't get there. Corrupt dictatorships siphon it off. It gets clear across the ocean, and then within a few miles from the target, it is diverted. So, let's think. Our money mostly gets to the target in America, but it doesn't help. Our money does not get to the Africans, so that isn't working, either. WHAT IS THE ANSWER?

Well, Warren suggests something that would work in America or Africa. But woohoo! It will make some folks who have excused God from the public equation REALLY uncomfortable. Warren points out that structure is already in place all over the world for meeting needs. It's the church. They are local, therefore they know the people. They know who is shucking the system and who is really needy. They are already set up so the wheel does not have to be reinvented. They have a heart and can come alongside the money with people to build relationships. And that is the "one-to-one" that is KEY to making it work...just like the Good Samaritan.

Now do I really think in this day and time of "separation of church and state" that such a model will ever be tried? Probably not. This side of heaven things are not ideal. Our home now is a broken system that we work within...in order to have influence for Him. But let's face it. Heaven is our real home. That is where things will be set right.

America is sitting on the precipice of viewing government as our provider/caretaker...then master. Government was NEVER to be our Savior or Deliverer or Master. That role is taken. Looking to anything other than God has always had serious repercussions.

"The Lord alone is God - there is no other besides Him." Deuteronomy 4.35 NET

DISSENT or DESCENT

Well, hallelujah...a reason that old age is our friend. We remember things (usually).

I can recall Bill and Hillary in the old days. They were in the streets as hippie activists.

And how about our current President? Barack Obama's resume was full of words like "community activist" and "million man march". So perhaps hitting the streets to express participation in our republic is not such a frightening thing. That's what the Tea Party Movement is doing...

Yet the ex-President outrageously uses "tea party movement" and "Timothy McVeigh" in the same talk he gave yesterday down in Florida. Comparing peaceful dissent to McVeigh? Think back to what motivated McVeigh. Was it words or actions? Wiki records:

"McVeigh instructed his lawyers to use a necessity defense, but they ended up not doing so,[52] because they would have had to prove that McVeigh was in "imminent danger" from the government. (McVeigh himself argued that "imminent" did not necessarily mean "immediate.") They would have argued that his bombing of the Murrah building was a justifiable response to what McVeigh believed were the crimes of the U.S. government at Waco, Texas. The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian complex resulted in the deaths of 76 Branch Davidian members."

Please do not misunderstand. McVeigh's actions were indefensible. But to insinuate a link between tea parties/talk radio and a deranged act, ex-President Clinton steps over the fact that McVeigh was responding to Janet Reno (HIS Atty General) sending tanks into a compound that resulted in many deaths.

Additionally, it's just a big bite to swallow when ex-President Clinton points that finger in our faces to caution Americans about domestic terrorists when he was president when we were bombed at the first World Trade Center, the Cole, the Khobar Towers, the African Embassy, and the Saudi Arabian Embassy. How did HE respond to REAL al Qaeda terrorism?

But we can cut the former President slack when he calls for measured words. Everyone should be held accountable for the tone of their words. Back when Hillary was running against President Obama, Clinton called Barack Obama a "Chicago thug". Well, that was just jive campaign talk. But as Bill Clinton said, words are provocative and do incite. Some examples that come to mind are BHO's friends...Bill Ayers (re the Pentagon bombing..."sorry we didn't do more"), and Jeremiah Wright ("gdamn American"). Those ARE pretty provocative words.

Tea party demonstrators are peacefully meeting to speak for less government. If the tea party movement seems angry, it is because they are either totally ignored or mocked by our leader. The President has control over that response. In the last Pew Research Center's poll, it recorded that 80% of Americans do not trust Washington and have little faith that it can solve America's ills.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jd_jiGbsExSJ0dfp1Na1YjnRJsfgD9F608UG0

I heard a man today say some powerful words. He cited the movie "Braveheart", when William Wallace stood at the table to plead with the lords. Wallace said "if you will just LEAD us, we will follow".

I believe that the reason Bill Clinton and President Obama have such a terror about the tea parties...is that they know the tea parties capture the country's longing to follow a leader who would know the way back to our founding.

PARTYING on the SQUARE

What a gorgeous day in NW Arkansas for a tea party. It's 75 degrees with a nice breeze.

Mike and I approached the square and it looked like a normal Thursday with the Farmers Market going on.

But as we headed around to the Town Center...

Actually the Town Center was not this active when we arrived because we were an hour early. This picture was made as we left.

One paper put the crowd at 1,000; another put the number at 400. Quite a disparity, eh? Mike said it could have been a thousand. He set up our sharechair on the front row and we were unable to see behind us accurately.

My sign won the contest for Best Sign on the Front Row.

I wondered if there were any troublemakers in the crowd, so we swapped chairtime and I went wandering through the participants earlyon.

I didn't know this lady, but she epitomized the enthusiastic spirit of the crowd. Plus she won for Best Headdress.

Another lady went by with a button that said "Bitter Clinger".

Now this guy had the real talent. He won for Best Signage Coming and Going.

This is what he said on one side...

This is what he said on the other.

Remember you can click on the picture if you'd like to make it larger.

This lady went through the crowd offering buttercreme mints wrapped in red/white/blue. Look at that cute little bow in her hair.

The pregnant anchorlady in purple waited to catch the special speaker.

Someone started singing "God Bless America" as we waited. And the introduction contained a real

prayer.

Dick Morris did a great job speaking. I wondered if they might bring him in through the building behind him. Nope. He came straight through the crowd to the front.

The man in the straw hat is the organizer of the Washington County Tea Party. The young lady on the right introduced Dick Morris. She was DYNOMITE. I wish everyone could have heard her speak. She was a Fayettevillian mom/wife and works with Americans for Prosperity. Seriously, Morris should put her on TV.

One of my take-aways from the talk was about socialism. Dick Morris says that the word is not a title, but a statistic. He said when President Obama took office, the percentage of money under government's control was 28%. In just a year and four months, it is now 36%...and when the full effects of healthcare kick in it will be 41%. That would put us in a tie with England, two less than France at 43%, and on and on until Sweden has the highest percentage at 54%.

And so I'm thinking...hmmm...each of my dimes they spend...are dimes I don't get to spend or to say how they are spent. I can be assured by history that they won't be spent as a good steward or even effectively (as I look back at how the War on Poverty came out). One part of my liberty is to be able to give according to my heart's direction.

These are the candidates for Congress running in the Republican primary. This morning they all promised not to raise taxes if elected.

Mr. Morris finishes and walks past us to make his way through the crowd. I left my finger in the picture so it was obvious I hadn't cropped him to make him look close.

Allison, do you see your Daddy in the picture?

Leaving...

Is this a real car?

One last lady sticks her head in for a book signing, and...

Dick Morris is off to Fort Smith, and then late this afternoon, to the Capitol steps in Little Rock.