A New Trend Shaping Up for U.S. Housing Prices?

Political Calculations / Townhall Columnist

As a general rule of thumb, when you're working with relatively good quality data, it takes a minimum of six to ten data points before you can reasonably identify if a statistically significant trend exists within the data you might be following.

Looking at the most recent data for the developing trend of median new home sale prices with respect to median household incomes in the U.S., we're about one month shy of the minimum threshold we need to tell if a new linear trend has become established in the U.S. real estate market following the end of 2013.

Although technically, we could probably make that determination with the data we have today, where it initially appears that the data from January 2014 through May 2014 is close to parallel with the stable trend that existed from December 2010 through July 2012, prior to the inflation of the second U.S. housing bubble. If a new stable trend develops, it would be a very positive development for the U.S. housing market, as another major collapse in home prices would be unlikely.

Provided of course that Americans can earn the kind of income it takes to pay the monthly mortgage payment for the median new home being constructed in the U.S. these days. Like the housing bubble in London, it takes much much more than the average income earned by individual Americans to be able to really afford the typical new home being built in America today.

References

Sentier Research. Household Income Trends: May 2014. [PDF Document]. Accessed 2 July 2014. [Note: We have converted all the older inflation-adjusted values presented in this source to be in terms of their original, nominal values (a.k.a. "current U.S. dollars") for use in our charts, which means that we have a true apples-to-apples basis for pairing this data with the median new home sale price data reported by the U.S. Census Bureau.]

U.S. Census Bureau. Median and Average Sales Prices of New Homes Sold in the United States. [Excel Spreadsheet]. Accessed 2 July 2014.

Obama Could End the Border Crisis Tomorrow if He Wanted

Conn Carroll / Townhall Columnist

 

President Obama may have described the waves of tens of thousands of migrant families flooding the southern border as a "humanitarian crisis," but it is a humanitarian crisis entirely of his own creation and one which he could end tomorrow if he wanted to.

The Los Angeles Times reports:

President Obama and his aides have repeatedly sought to dispel the rumors driving thousands of children and teens from Central America to cross the U.S. border each month with the expectation they will be given a permiso and allowed to stay.

But under the Obama administration, those reports have proved increasingly true.

The number of immigrants under 18 who were deported or turned away at ports of entry fell from 8,143 in 2008, the last year of the George W. Bush administration, to 1,669 last year, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement data released under a Freedom of Information Act request.

Similarly, about 600 minors were ordered deported each year from nonborder states a decade ago. Ninety-five were deported last year, records show, even as a flood of unaccompanied minors from Central America — five times more than two years earlier — began pouring across the Southwest border.

This drop in deportations is driven entirely by policy decisions made by Obama. From 2010 through today, the Obama administration has released a series of memos directing Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials not to enforce our nation's immigration laws.

Obama's June 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (which also gave certain illegal immigrants the ability to obtain a work permit, get a Social Security number, and apply for a driver’s license) is just the most public and promoted of these efforts.

In each of these cases, Obama has said his inherent enforcement powers as president, coupled with a lack of resources, allows him to pick and choose which immigration laws will actually be enforced.

Enter the 2008 William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act which requires border officials to send child migrants to the Department of Health and Human Services for processing. These migrants are also allowed to seek an asylum hearing before an immigration judge which takes time. Till then, most of the migrants are simply released in the United States and never sent home.

But not all migrants are taken in for processing. Again, from The Los Angeles Times:

Most of the minors are being held in Border Patrol stations in Texas and Arizona, and in emergency facilities set up by the Department of Health and Human Services on military bases and other sites. About 11,000, however, were from Mexico and were swiftly bused back across the border, as the law allows.

So Obama does have the capability to bus migrants back across the border. His administration is currently doing exactly that for Mexican migrants who illegally cross the border. But Obama is choosing not to bus back migrants form countries other than Mexico.

Why?

Yes, current immigration law as written does require ICE to process OTM migrants. But current immigration law also requires ICE to deport illegal immigrants found inside the United States. If Obama can ignore current immigration law on deportations, he can also ignore the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act. In other words, if Obama's DACA program and other lax immigration enforcement policies are legal, then it is also legal for him to turn away those migraines flooding the border today.

But Obama does not want to solve the current border crisis. He wants the crisis to get bigger so he can use it to force the Republican Congress to negotiate on immigration. That is why he is asking for a change to the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act. Obama believes that if he can get House Republicans to change that law, then Democrats can tack on their much larger amnesty to the bill when it goes through the Senate.

Republicans can not play Obama's selective enforcement game. Obama unilaterally rewrote immigration law into this crisis, he can unilaterally rewrite himself out of it.

Obama Could End the Border Crisis Tomorrow if He Wanted

Conn Carroll / Townhall Columnist

 

President Obama may have described the waves of tens of thousands of migrant families flooding the southern border as a "humanitarian crisis," but it is a humanitarian crisis entirely of his own creation and one which he could end tomorrow if he wanted to.

The Los Angeles Times reports:

President Obama and his aides have repeatedly sought to dispel the rumors driving thousands of children and teens from Central America to cross the U.S. border each month with the expectation they will be given a permiso and allowed to stay.

But under the Obama administration, those reports have proved increasingly true.

The number of immigrants under 18 who were deported or turned away at ports of entry fell from 8,143 in 2008, the last year of the George W. Bush administration, to 1,669 last year, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement data released under a Freedom of Information Act request.

Similarly, about 600 minors were ordered deported each year from nonborder states a decade ago. Ninety-five were deported last year, records show, even as a flood of unaccompanied minors from Central America — five times more than two years earlier — began pouring across the Southwest border.

This drop in deportations is driven entirely by policy decisions made by Obama. From 2010 through today, the Obama administration has released a series of memos directing Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials not to enforce our nation's immigration laws.

Obama's June 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (which also gave certain illegal immigrants the ability to obtain a work permit, get a Social Security number, and apply for a driver’s license) is just the most public and promoted of these efforts.

In each of these cases, Obama has said his inherent enforcement powers as president, coupled with a lack of resources, allows him to pick and choose which immigration laws will actually be enforced.

Enter the 2008 William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act which requires border officials to send child migrants to the Department of Health and Human Services for processing. These migrants are also allowed to seek an asylum hearing before an immigration judge which takes time. Till then, most of the migrants are simply released in the United States and never sent home.

But not all migrants are taken in for processing. Again, from The Los Angeles Times:

Most of the minors are being held in Border Patrol stations in Texas and Arizona, and in emergency facilities set up by the Department of Health and Human Services on military bases and other sites. About 11,000, however, were from Mexico and were swiftly bused back across the border, as the law allows.

So Obama does have the capability to bus migrants back across the border. His administration is currently doing exactly that for Mexican migrants who illegally cross the border. But Obama is choosing not to bus back migrants form countries other than Mexico.

Why?

Yes, current immigration law as written does require ICE to process OTM migrants. But current immigration law also requires ICE to deport illegal immigrants found inside the United States. If Obama can ignore current immigration law on deportations, he can also ignore the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act. In other words, if Obama's DACA program and other lax immigration enforcement policies are legal, then it is also legal for him to turn away those migraines flooding the border today.

But Obama does not want to solve the current border crisis. He wants the crisis to get bigger so he can use it to force the Republican Congress to negotiate on immigration. That is why he is asking for a change to the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act. Obama believes that if he can get House Republicans to change that law, then Democrats can tack on their much larger amnesty to the bill when it goes through the Senate.

Republicans can not play Obama's selective enforcement game. Obama unilaterally rewrote immigration law into this crisis, he can unilaterally rewrite himself out of it.

All 294 US diplomatic outposts on high alert over threats from Islamic State
Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs

The Obama Doctrine: Operation Fetal Position.

To put a twist on the infamous Michelle Obama quote, let me say, “for the first time in my adult life I am ashamed of my country.”

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” All 294 US diplomatic outposts on high alert over threats from Islamic State,”  Jihadwatch

“If America attacks Iraq every American embassy in the world will be exposed and attacked with car bombs.” “If the United States bomb Iraq, every American citizen is a legitimate target.” Jihad Watch posted these threats on June 27. The U.S. government appears to have caught up nine days later.

“Isis threaten to plant bombs at ‘every American embassy,’” by Scott Campbell, Sunday Express, July 6, 2014 (thanks to Twostellas):

All 294 US diplomatic outposts are on high alert after the terror threats were posted online by rebels.

One ISIS post said: “If America attacks Iraq every American embassy in the world will be exposed and attacked with car bombs.”

Another vowed: “If the United States bomb Iraq, every American citizen is a legitimate target.”

The terrorists said that companies in Arab countries employing US citizens would also be targeted, after threatening to “slaughter” US doctors around the world. The messages came amid a US government fightback on Twitter against ISIS militants who urged followers to tweet threats.

The @ansaar999 account,...

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Global Jihad 2014 Obama's 2nd Term

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The Obama Doctrine: Operation Fetal Position.
To put a twist on the infamous Michelle Obama quote, let me say, “for the first time in my adult life I am ashamed of my country.”

Stay on top of what’s really happening. Follow me on Twitter here. Like me on Facebook here.

” All 294 US diplomatic outposts on high alert over threats from Islamic State,”  Jihadwatch
“If America attacks Iraq every American embassy in the world will be exposed and attacked with car bombs.” “If the United States bomb Iraq, every American citizen is a legitimate target.” Jihad Watch posted these threats on June 27. The U.S. government appears to have caught up nine days later.
“Isis threaten to plant bombs at ‘every American embassy,’” by Scott Campbell, Sunday Express, July 6, 2014 (thanks to Twostellas):

All 294 US diplomatic outposts are on high alert after the terror threats were posted online by rebels.
One ISIS post said: “If America attacks Iraq every American embassy in the world will be exposed and attacked with car bombs.”
Another vowed: “If the United States bomb Iraq, every American citizen is a legitimate target.”
The terrorists said that companies in Arab countries employing US citizens would also be targeted, after threatening to “slaughter” US doctors around the world. The messages came amid a US government fightback on Twitter against ISIS militants who urged followers to tweet threats.
The @ansaar999 account, which appears to have links with the rebel group, tweeted its 23,400 followers, telling them to post anti-US messages in English.
The messages, sent to politicians and celebrities including Oprah Winfrey, contained images of dead US soldiers, the 9/11 attacks and masked ISIS fighters.
The US joined the war of words on the Think Again Turn Away account, which is used to respond to critics in the Middle East.

- See more at: http://pamelageller.com/2014/07/294-us-diplomatic-outposts-high-alert-threats-islamic-state.html/#sthash.jfwMvtgE.dpuf

‘The More Power The Government Has…’

by Bob Livingston  / Personal Liberty Digest

THINKSTOCK

 “The more power the government has, the greater the risk to the people and the more dangerous the abuse.”–Edmund Burke, 1771.

Big government is organized crime in all but name, and the man in the street is numb to the universal risk in today’s world.

Politicians and bureaucrats are spending the world into oblivion while secretly hoping and expecting to escape debt with depreciated dollars: yours. The public is unaware.

Note that your “elected” politicians never talk about the ongoing depreciation (inflation) of paper money (U.S. dollars). They don’t want you to think about this. They would rather you think about Donald Sterling and his frivolous racial comments.

But you should be on high alert. Liquidity is not only negative; it is at its most negative level in history. Are we facing the second Great Depression or worse?

For the third time in 14 years, U.S. stocks are in a bubble and far more leveraged than ever before.

There are now more corporate bonds outstanding in the U.S. than there are mortgage-backed securities. This is significant, and the heart of the next crisis and the debt bubble will be non-financial corporate debt.

Investors beware! Stockholders beware!

Thanks to the Fed, it now seems that we have a bubble in all asset classes much larger than 2007. The Fed and other central banks with their expansionary monetary policies, all designed to boost asset prices, are similar to a juggler who is trying to keep all his balls in the air. The Big One is coming and there will be no place to hide except in very depressed gold stocks.

For the past four years, we have seen hard financial times and deteriorating business; but let me remind you of history. We don’t get the classic ice age depression until the New York stock market tanks. I expect this in 2014, this year. Its setup is now! No matter the fundamentals, every stock market that is booming seems to paralyze the mass mind.

Keep your gold stocks, your silver and gold and, yes, your stash of cash close to your heart.

These things will be scarce!

The coming second Great Depression will be very high-risk to your assets and to you personally. Get a good dog and bond with him and keep him in your home at night along with your loaded gun. Don’t be scared; just be ready.

The more ready you are, the safer you will be. This will all make sense to you in time.

The Two-Party System

The American people keep losing because they keep believing that there are two political parties.

This belief that there are two political parties is a great deception that covers over systemic rot.

The first road out of serfdom is to begin to see that the so-called two-party system is a one-party system, a government-party system. It is perfectly amazing how we hold to the two-party illusion.

Most people just can’t shake the deception. It borders on dementia. The politicians love it!

I realized many years ago that no matter who got elected, things always kept going in the same direction. There were obvious political and economic solutions, but the one party with two names made certain that the established order did not change. The people love deception, and they cling to it.

The unofficial U.S. monetary policy is currency devaluation. This has been true since the changing of the monetary system into the private Federal Reserve System in 1913. It was all in the plan to slowly take trillions of dollars away from the American people without general public awareness.

The act of currency devaluation can be understood simply as printing new currency. This is not an innocent game, but is theft from every person in the world who holds or uses dollars.

Each time new money is added, either as paper money or computer entries, all money already in the system — whether in circulation or under the mattress — is worth less. It is an unannounced and insidious process that covers theft on a grand scale.

This is, in fact, a scheme of the ongoing theft and transfer of the savings and assets of Americans to the banker elite. No Representative or Senator ever warned of this massive silent transfer of wealth.

As currency is diluted and gets weaker, it buys less and prices go up at the grocery store. The result is that people confuse cause and effect. They naively think that rising prices is simple price inflation, but it is actually the result of currency devaluation, meaning the banking system stole your purchasing power by and through new money printing.

What do the banking elite call money printing? They use words and terms that disguise their money printing so the general public doesn’t understand. Their buzzword is “quantitative easing.” This stealth money printing has a very serious effect, namely the ultimate and total debasement of the currency and the general destruction of savings and impoverishment of the people.

There are numerous instances in history where the population was made poor and hungry because greedy monetary authorities printed paper money into worthlessness. It is now happening in America.
American dollars have been loosed on the world as pure fiat currency since President Richard Nixon closed all gold transfers to foreign countries in 1971. Now the chickens are coming home to roost.

We are at the end of our system of debt. And of course the crowd is oblivious to their slow impoverishment.

An impoverished people is easy to control. Especially one that has no guns — hence the ongoing effort to disarm us.

Statue of Liberty

For some reason, people have difficulty structuring their arguments when arguing against supporting the currently proposed immigration revisions. This lady made the argument pretty simple. NOT printed in the Orange County Paper ...

Newspapers simply won't publish letters to the editor which they either deem politically incorrect (read below)or which does not agree with the philosophy they're pushing on the public. This woman wrote a great letter to the editor that should have been published; but,with your help, it will get published via cyberspace!

From: "David LaBonte"

My wife, Rosemary, wrote a wonderful letter to the editor of the O C Register which, of course, was not printed. So, I decided to "print" it myself by sending it out on the Internet. Pass it along if you feel so inclined. Written in response to a series of letters to the editor in the Orange County Register:

Dear Editor:
So many letter writers have based their arguments on how this land is made up of immigrants. Ernie Lujan for one, suggests we should tear down the Statue of Liberty because the people now in question aren't being treated the same as those who passed through Ellis Island and other ports of entry.

Maybe we should turn to our history books and point out to people like Mr. Lujan why today's American is not willing to accept this new kind of immigrant any longer. Back in 1900 when there was a rush from all areas of Europe to come to the United States, people had to get off a ship and stand in a long line in New York and be documented.Some would even get
down on their hands and knees and kiss the ground. They made a pledge to uphold the laws and support their new country in good and bad times. They made learning English a primary rule in their new American households and some even changed their names to blend in with their new home.

They had waved good-bye to their birth place to give their children a new life and did everything in their power to help their children assimilate into one culture. Nothing was handed to them. No free lunches, no welfare, no labor laws to protect them. All they had were the skills and craftsmanship they had brought with them to trade for a future of prosperity.

Most of their children came of age when World War II broke out. My father fought alongside men whose parents had come straight over from Germany,Italy, France and Japan. None of these 1st generation Americans ever gave any thought about what country their parents had come from.They were Americans fighting Hitler, Mussolini and the Emperor of Japan.They were defending the United States of America as one people.

When we liberated France,no one in those villages were looking for the French-American or the German-American or the Irish-American. The people of France saw only Americans. And we carried one flag that represented one country. Not one of those immigrant sons would have thought about picking up another country's flag and waving it to represent who they were. It would have been a disgrace to their parents who had sacrificed so much to be here. These immigrants truly knew what it meant to bean American. They stirred the melting pot into one red, white and blue bowl.

And here we are with a new kind of immigrant who wants the same rights and privileges. Only they want to achieve it by playing with a different set of rules, one that includes the entitlement card and a guarantee of being faithful to their mother country. I'm sorry, that's not what being an American is all about. I believe that the immigrants who landed on Ellis Island in the early 1900's deserve better than that for all the toil, hard work and sacrifice in raising future generations to create a land that has become a beacon for those legally searching for a better life. I think they would be appalled that they are being used as an example by those waving foreign country flags.

And for that suggestion about taking down the Statue of Liberty, it happens to mean a lot to the citizens who are voting on the immigration bill. I wouldn't start talking about dismantling the United States just yet.

(signed)
Rosemary LaBonte

KEEP THIS LETTER MOVING. FOR THE WRONG THINGS TO PREVAIL THE RIGHTFUL MAJORITY NEEDS TO REMAIN COMPLACENT AND QUIET!! LET THIS NEVER HAPPEN!!

I sincerely hope this letter gets read by millions of people all across the nation!!

Beware of Liberal Wolves Dressed as Shepherds By Craig Andresen /The National Patriot / RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS radio partner

When it comes to the next two elections, November 2014 and November 2016, we…as Conservatives, MUST get our priorities in line or we will not only lose those elections…we’ll lose this country.

When I say ‘priorities’ I mean our platform.

Simply put, we win on policy and we WILL lose on social issues.
I know there are some Conservatives out there reading this who will say I’m off base and that’s okay…they’re dead wrong.  They are entitled to their opinions but if they want to take this country back…back from liberals and their warped ideology of socialism leading to communism and back from the abyss of big government control of our lives and businesses and back from the brink of global disaster…They need to understand exactly what the real problems this nation faces ARE.

Right now, our southern border is wide open. Illegal aliens are flooding in by the hundreds of thousands and tens of thousands of those illegal aliens are children. Tens of thousands of them are infested with contagious diseases and Obama has our military acting as baby sitters while our agencies, originally put in place to protect our border are being tasked with being the taxi service that disperses these illegal aliens throughout OUR country rather than sending them back to THEIR countries.

It’s illegal. It’s human trafficking being carried out by our own government and it is a gross violation of our Constitution.

This is not a social issue…

http://www.thenationalpatriot.com/2014/07/07/beware-of-liberal-wolves-dressed-as-shepherds/

Op-ed: 
Religion and politics...one in His name and one of winning an election 
By: Diane Sori

The hate mongers are out in force...full force...as they try to make the 2014 mid-terms a rallying cry around the social issues...around religious issues...and know that if they succeed all will be lost again.

The most important goal for the November mid-term election is to retake the Senate and increase our numbers in the House... NOTHING...I repeat NOTHING...is more important than that...NO local race...NO state race...NO social issue...NOTHING... because if we don't retake the Senate it's over...period.

And to that end to win we need numbers...BIG numbers. And to get those numbers we need to pull in any and all who want to see our country return to the rule of law known as the Constitution, and herein enters the oh-so dirty word that the ubber religious far right fear the most...inclusion.

Inclusion...a word we Conservatives can NO longer turn our backs on for where once some in our party pushed away specific groups of people if they did NOT meet their set-in-stone standard of 'norm' and if they did NOT meet and practice their specific view of religious dogma...all they need to do is hark back to November 2102 when 'certain' pastors of name bought into the Chislam nonsense and told their congregations to stay home and NOT vote for Mitt Romney simply because he was a Mormon.  

"Better a muslim that we know than a Mormon we don't know" they said, and three million blind followers heeded their call and did NOT vote or worse...voted third party out of protest or wrote down the name Jesus Christ on the ballot... making themselves a laughing stock because if memory serves me correctly neither God the Father nor His Son ever wanted to hold political office.

I sure hope they're happy with what they helped get us because the rest of us sure the hell are NOT.

And these are the very same people who now want to force a repeat of our 2012 defeat. And why...because of focusing on the 'social issues' instead of focusing on the dangers perpetrated by the traitorous muslim in the White House and his infamous 'pen and phone'...instead of focusing on an American economy in the toilet...instead of focusing on a misguided foreign policy spinning dangerously out of control...instead of focusing on our borders being overrun by an ILLEGAL invasion...instead of focusing on jobs creation to put Americans back to work...instead of focusing on the rising price of gas, oil, and foodstuffs...instead of focusing on the growing nightmare that is ObamaCare...instead of focusing on the loss of our personal freedoms or on the defamation done to our vets...instead of focusing on all that and so much more they instead willingly and knowingly choose to focus on the social issues of someone's personal religious beliefs and/or someone's personal lifestyle choice.

Yet these very same social issue oriented people want government out of their religion yet want their personal views of religion in government...but guess what folks...you cannot have it both ways.

These are the same people who quiver in fear over a mere two percent of the population simply because a Biblical passage or two has been taken out of context in the translating from the ancient Hebrew to Aramaic to Greek to Latin to English. Yet these same people blindly worship at the alter of religious whores...for lack of a better word...who use religion and God for their own personal monetary gain.

These are the same people who ignore science...proven medical science...because they're afraid to use common sense and logic as they insert themselves into the privacy of someone's bedroom yet I can guarantee that they would NOT like it known that perhaps what some of them do in their bedrooms would be considered sinful to others...as well as to God.

Yet these people that I speak of are NOT bad people by any means, they are just people who are NOT tolerant of any who do NOT believe as they do...who do NOT live as they do...who do NOT worship as they do...who do NOT hold the same Biblical beliefs as they do...the same people who will smile sweetly to your face and then defame and slander you the minute you turn your back on them. And that is so sad as this very group of people are in and of themselves a minority within the larger group of followers of Christianity yet they are as vocal...as in your face...as the very groups of people they find so damnful.

These are the same group of people who don't care for Jews or truly care about Israel being a Jewish state...who don't care for Roman Catholics or the Holy Roman Catholic Church...who don't care for Mormons...who don't care for those in the Orthodox Churches nor for the many Protestant denominations who are NOT 'born again' as they deem one must be to enter the Kingdom of God... and they especially don't care for gays in any of these denominations even if those gays are fellows in Christ.

And here's a shocker for those social issue...religious issues only people... 23% of Americans while calling themselves of a certain religion do NOT consider themselves religious at all...do NOT practice their faith at all. And a new survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life shows the shifts taking place in America's religious landscape, most notably in the fact that 28% of American adults have left the faith in which they were raised in favor of another religion or NO...yes NO...religion at all.

Note it is said they are NOT of religion but nowhere did it say they are without God in their hearts...as in a personal relationship with God...for they are simply without ties to any particular religious dogma. And what is religious dogma and tenets but words set down by men who claim to have heard the voice of God. And like it or NOT religion in and of itself is indeed a fabrication of man NOT a must-have demanded by God for God knows one can believe and honor Him without all the trappings put upon Him by mere mortal men.

Also shown in the survey is that America is on the verge of becoming a minority Protestant nation as the number of Americans who report themselves members of Protestant denominations now stands at barely 51%. And the Protestant population as a whole is fragmented and divided as it's comprised of hundreds of different denominations loosely grouped around three distinct religious traditions...Evangelical Protestant churches (26.3% of the overall adult population), mainline Protestant churches (18.1%), and historically black Protestant churches (6.9%). And the Midwest most closely resembles the religious makeup of the overall American population. The South, by a wide margin, has the heaviest concentration of Evangelical Protestant churches. The Northeast has the greatest concentration of Catholics, and the West has the largest proportion of unaffiliated people, including the largest proportion of atheists and agnostics.

So as religion per se and its dogma loses favor in America that in NO way means Americans are losing favor with or faith in God as religion and God are NOT one and the same, and I think God would frown upon all the damage religious dogma and its hate have done in His name.

And don't you think God would want a strong America united under Him based on faith of the heart NOT a nation based on any one particular religious dogma...on the dogma of one-fourth of one quarter of the population. And don't you think God would include in his ranks...would welcome with open arms...any and everyone who wants to join in the fight for our country's very survival...everyone from the staunches ultra right conservatives, to the new breed of socially moderate Republicans, to those in the TEA Party, to once frowned upon minorities, because even God knows that November is about numbers and NOTHING else.

And don't you think God knows that elections are NOT won by imploding ourselves from within by trying to exclude those, amongst others, who might be different than ourselves and for NO other reason than lifestyle or in how they choose to pray to the one true living God of the Christians and Jews.

And don't you think God knows there's a huge difference between federal issues and state's issues and that the social issues are state's issues and have NO business being part of this November's election for if we make them so even God knows we will lose. And don't you think God knows our Constitution creates a government based on 'federalism,' as in the sharing of power between the national, state, and local governments. And don't you think God knows that while each of the 50 states has its own constitution, all provisions of state constitutions must comply with the U.S. Constitution... with the U.S. Constitution NOT with the words of the Bible...and those who set themselves up as judge and jury over others need to understand and accept that as fact.

And lastly, don't you think God knows true people of faith...of any faith and any orientation...who believe in the Constitution and all it stands for want to see our country survive these disastrous Obama years intact and whole as much as we can. And to that affect we need to welcome all those of any religion...of any lifestyle choice...into the Conservative fold for we need their numbers to pull those 'R' levers this November as the issue of our country's survival is bigger than some of us being offended by what two consenting adults do in the privacy of their bedroom or by some having their noses up in the air to those who do NOT believe as they do.

So while NO one is trying to take away anyone's personal religious beliefs or even say that the social issues are NOT important...they are but in their proper place...what is being said is that this November...and again in 2016...it's about inclusion folks but above all else it's numbers and numbers alone that will turn the tide of this nation.

And to that I say...amen.