Did you know that 18% of Americans are functionally brain dead? Yes, it is now documented. Some 18% of Americans are going through their lives, walking and talking on a daily basis, while being completely brain-dead, with no intelligent thought occurring inside their brain pans. What other explanation could there be, when 18% of Americans believe Barack Obama is Jewish?

The American Family Association has released its 2012 election scorecard, found on their action website www.afaaction.net. Conservatives and Christians face tough choices in 2012, but hopefully this and other resources can help you make the best of a challenging decision.

Coal miners have made it clear that they don’t like where their industry is headed. Both presidential candidates are busy trying to win over this class of voters given the importance of the states where they reside, especially Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. It’s been a hard sell for President Obama; his brashness against the coal industry in 2008 by predicting their bankruptcy hasn’t aided him in this endeavor. And though Romney has proved somewhat more popular in the coal industry, it’s still anyone’s game.

In 2008 Obama captured 66% of the youth vote. But unlike the liberal ideological baby boom generation, millennials are more pragmatic. Having experienced liberal policies in action, some have realized that well-intentioned policies can have disastrous consequences. Support for Obama among the 18- to 29-year-old age group has dropped to 48%. Others simply won’t vote.

We can choose to follow the path of redistribution, class warfare, and collectivist dependency or we can choose to at least attempt a return to limited government, personal liberty, and economic freedom. Don’t be fooled by the progressive media and their obvious bias. To be free is God’s design. For us to be a slave to dependency is man’s.

OCTOBER 29, 1929, the New York Stock Exchange crashed. Panic ensued as Wall Street sold 16,410,030 shares in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost and America plunged into the Great Depression. In a drive to aid private relief agencies, October 18, 1931, President Herbert Hoover stated: “Time and again the American people have demonstrated a spiritual quality of generosity…This is the occasion when we must arouse that idealism, that spirit, from which there can be no failure in this primary obligation of every man to his neighbor.”