I've been told that once the media starts recognizing a recession, the economy is already coming back to normal. However, I don't think the trouble with the economy today is a normal recession cycle. Why? Because I believe that the economy is in the midst of a power struggle for control over the American people and the American way.

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Looking back at the inauguration of President Obama, history was made because a man of no unique personal attributes, no exceptional qualifications, promising nothing other than change took the oath of office as the most powerful political officer in the world. We saw a media claiming to be unbiased go "Ga ga" over an event strictly because the new president is black. An opinion they have demonstrated through their lack commentary over his plans because he never enumerated them. In fact, from the perspective of a medical student who has been unable to keep tabs on much anything over the last two years, the most I knew and of Obama's policy was change with little specifics. Change ranging from increasing taxes and socializing our government to making a college football playoff.

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Not too long ago, there was a young man named Kile. Kile was a normal guy who loved sports, enjoyed getting together with friends, and had a job at the local super-market bagging groceries. One day, his father came up to him and gave him two things. The first thing was a bucket full of gasoline. The second thing was an instruction. The instruction was this, to take his bucket full of gasoline and walk down a certain road for many miles. That was it. A bit odd sounding? Kile thought so. When Kile asked why he was supposed to do this task, his father told him there was car waiting for him at the end of the road. "A car for me?" Kile asked. "Yup, it will be all yours. That's what the bucket of gas is for," replied his father.

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Barack Hussein Obama has swept triumphantly into office with the winds of change in his wake. According to reports in the mainstream media, Americans suddenly feel that everything is going to be fine, despite the impending economic disaster, because Obama will not allow his people to suffer. He will somehow pay all our mortgages, make valedictorians of all our children, and cure cancer before his first one hundred days are finished. All of this has been encapsulated in a short video showing the elation Obama's election has created . . .
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Dadhood. Not Fatherhood...Dadhood. It's hard to think of myself as a father just yet. Fathers are..."old." At least I hope I'm not a father yet by that definition. At 27, I shouldn't be. When my wife Heidi gave birth to our first son two years ago, I experienced a new paradigm in my life. No longer did I see myself as a young married guy just out of college. Now I had to face up to the reality that I was "Husband" and "Dad."

Father seems to be a term more suited to being used in the 1950's. We can all picture the 11-year-old boy entering the living room wearing some not quite long enough slacks and sweater vest carrying a baseball bat over his shoulder with a glove on the end. In the easy chair sits "Father." He's always dressed to the nines with wing tips and necktie. Usually he's reading the paper; perhaps smoking a pipe. Son addresses "Father."

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