Last week, the Tea Party-backed candidate Christine O'Donnell came out ahead over nine-term Rep. Mike Castle in Delaware's Republican Senate primary. Likewise, Tea Party-backed Buffalo businessman Carl Palladino stunned the pundits by winning the GOP gubernatorial primary over the party leaders' pick Rick Lazio.

Many people consider Albert Einstein the smartest man the world has ever known. He revolutionized the way we view space, time, and gravity. Although Einstein was three years old before he began to talk, he was far from being a backward child. By the age of eleven, Einstein was reading about science and philosophy.

Almost two years have passed since President-elect Obama categorized our country’s economic problems as “the worst financial crisis in a century.” During this time, there have been herculean attempts to jump start the economy.