Surprise! America is being berated as a ticking time bomb. Economist Larry Kotlikoff recently wrote a piece for the Financial Times declaring America to be in worse fiscal shape than Greece, which had its financial system taken over. According to Kotlikoff, “The U.S. is bankrupt. Neither spending more nor taxing less will help the country pay its bills.”

Immigration alert! The face of immigration is about to change rapidly, and not because President Obama is pushing forward bold policy to protect Americans inhabiting our nation’s back door from Mexican drug cartels. Felipe Calderon, Mexico’s president, is aggressively moving forward legalized access to drugs on the streets of Mexico.

It’s a holistic pride within human nature that desires to shamelessly document all of our greatest victories with a sign of success for the world to see. The American flag on the moon is one of these glorious achievements that will be enshrined in history forever. This sentiment, which has been used to cultivate pride among nations, is being used against America with the building of the Ground Zero mosque. 

The nastiness of Washington is an excellent example of how civility and respect have lost their way in our nation.  With that truism in mind, I believe it’s time for a little self-examination.

If we fast-forward a couple of millennia or so to the birth of the American nation, we once again see the influence of Christ as a central tenet in the political equation. Many of the early European settlers in this land were willing to uproot themselves from their homes in hope of finding a place in which they could practice their religion without interference from the government.

The ascendancy of lawyers, bankers and political professions is as sure a sign of any that our society is becoming less free and more tyrannical.