My last article may have sounded like I was giving up. Not so…I had planned on taking more time away from writing to spend with my family. But my wife told me today to go write something if I wanted, she had something she wanted to do, and I would have been in her way if I tried to help. So, this is the end result… Ought to certainly make me some enemies…especially at work.

In recent days the idea of using the Article V convention option in the Constitution received support in an article by Texas US Senator John Cornyn published on the Fox News website. He noted “Recent polling suggests that a plurality of Americans support a convention to propose a Balanced Budget Amendment to the Constitution if Congress will not do so.” He made a good case for using the convention option by saying it “would be part of a national conversation that could last well beyond one or two election cycles. The very length of the convention and ratification process would allow the American people ample opportunity to judge proposed reforms, and ensure that they would strengthen the checks and balances that have served our nation well.”