Many factors drag blacks down economically. But making one very straightforward policy change would have immediate wealth-creation benefits for blacks and all low-income Americans. It involves something I’ve written about many times: personal retirement accounts.

September 11 looms large this year. Not only is it the twelfth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon resulting in the murder of 2,996 people, but it has been one impossibly long year since the U.S. consulate was attacked in Benghazi, Libya.

Can you imagine our forefathers, while suffering the abuses of King George, stating, “This is it. It is all over with. Jesus is coming to get us out of here”? While America is enduring an onslaught of abuses greater than those of our forefathers, could it be a self-fulfilling prophecy due to the church’s lack of moral responsibility?

Obama’s war in Libya, and now the imminent action to take place in Syria, fly in the face of not just the separation of powers, but the words of then-candidate Obama in 2008, who told voters on the campaign trail, “The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.”

Rush Limbaugh recently interviewed Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) on defunding ObamaCare, how it can be done, and how Republicans (if they have the guts) can take control of the narrative and show it for what it is: it would be DEMOCRATS who would shut down the government over ObamaCare, not Republicans.

This is the modern world under secular humanism: “tolerance” for everything-including violent people (can you say Bill Ayers) and violent ideologies (can you say radical Islam) and every sexual perversion imaginable and for politically correct intolerance-except the Christian worldview that spawned the greatest nation in human history.

“If he allows Obamacare to be funded, he’ll own it — and so will every House Republican that votes with him. Now is the time for choosing.” That was how Americans for Limited Government President Nathan Mehrens described how political blame will be assigned when Obamacare goes into effect in January 2014. Today Republican leaders like Boehner face a very similar choice on Obamacare. About whether to fight — or to surrender.

This is the story of Western civilization—the world touched by the church in every area of life—where humanity has experienced unprecedented flourishing. Despite our checkered past, Christians have throughout history risen up against countless evils bringing real reform to a broken world defaced by sin.

Few people doubt that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie hopes to become president in 2016. Unfortunately for him, he may have just signed away any chance of that. Last week, Christie signed A3371, a draconian piece of legislation that bars licensed therapists from helping children overcome unwanted same-sex attractions, behavior or identity even when – as is so often the case – those same-sex attractions arise from childhood sexual abuse by the likes of a Jerry Sandusky.

Today there are absolutely no shortages of godless women in our post Judeo/Christian American culture. We as American Christians use to send missionaries to the jungles to point out to the lewd and godless savages their dire need for salvation. Today the jungle is mainstream here in America.