Since unemployment numbers haven’t always told the true story of what’s happened to the U.S. economy, a more diligent survey of other, broader indicators is necessary to gauge the President’s economic stewardship. When defined by gross domestic product (GDP) growth, for example, it’s the worst economy in 83 years.

Bad politicians, like bad people in general, are a product of our debased culture — a culture we created. They are a reflection of our deteriorating American ethos. Complaining solves nothing.

On December 1, the Fox Sports columnist penned a column about what happened earlier that morning when Jovan Belcher — the starting linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs — murdered his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins (the mother of his three-month-old daughter), and then drove to Arrowhead Stadium and killed himself.

It was recently revealed that over 11 million Americans will likely face a “no insurance” tax penalty if ObamaCare is fully implemented (with an estimated average penalty of $1,200). This directly contradicts Obama’s promise to not raise taxes on families making less than $250,000 per year — which includes the middle class.

August was the 43rd straight month in which the overall unemployment rate remained above eight percent. While officially reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as 8.1 percent, the U-6 unemployment rate — totaling all potential workers (including those who stopped looking for work) — was a much more sobering 14.7 percent.

It’s said Lyndon Baines Johnson used voter fraud to win his 1948 Senate primary campaign. In 1954, then-Senator Johnson orchestrated a law prohibiting church involvement in electoral politics. Yet it was LBJ’s presidential library where Attorney General Eric Holder chose to demonize ballot protection laws last year.

On May 8, North Carolinians overwhelmingly voted in favor of Amendment 1. The ballot measure changed the state’s constitution to define marriage as a union existing solely between a man and a woman. The approximately 61 percent to 39 percent vote in favor of the Amendment 1 makes North Carolina the 30th state to vote against homosexual marriage.

While campaigning for the U.S. Senate in 2004, Barack Obama was asked about his views on gay marriage.  At that time, he stated: “What I believe, in my [Christian] faith, is that a man and a woman, when they get married, are performing something before God, and it's not simply the two persons who are meeting.”

Attorney General Eric Holder and his band of merry litigators at the U.S. Department of Justice have sued Jacksonville, Florida over its fire department’s promotion testing process. The Obama Administration contends that it discriminates against blacks.

How can I say this? The gradual escalation of racial rhetoric revolving around Trayvon Martin’s death in Sanford, Florida has reached a level from which there may be no return.