Promoted by Steven- It's really not the the money in politics that really irritates but the use to which it is put. An email leak has California GOP Candidate Steve Poizner in an uproar. Quote: An e-mail in which an adviser to candidate Meg Whitman threatened to spend $40 million or more to ruin her fellow Republican Steve Poizner's reputation provided a rare glimpse this week at the tough tactics in the high-stakes race for California governor.

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40 Million to Destroy Someone.

Just about everybody realizes that the Stimulus did did not stimulate our economy. In fact, it was probably quite counter-productive, since the borrowed debt and newly printed Dollar Bills have severely weakened the Dollar in comparison to other currencies like the Euro, Yen and Pound Sterling

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Fix The Balance Sheet, Fix Our Economy

Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse From the Ruth Institute podcast page . An update on the federal trial on California’s Proposition 8 The MP3 file is here

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Jennifer Roback Morse podcasts on same-sex marriage and prop 8

Part one has been posted here at Apologetics 315. Excerpt: The Problem: Good books are imperative for learning and growing.

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Brian Auten begins a series on lifelong learning for Christian apologists

The lovely Betsy of Ruthblog linked to this old 2009 article from BioEdge. Excerpt: The record for Britain’s oldest women to give birth will be broken next month by 66 year old Elizabeth Munro, from Cambridge. It is thought that Ms Munro, who is single and a successful business woman, travelled to the Ukraine to become pregnant using donor eggs and IVF treatment.

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Are elderly women who have babies through IVF being selfish?

February 3, 2010 Unions substantially raise wages and benefits for workers For Immediate Release: February 3, 2010 Contact: Alan Barber, (202) 293-5380 x115 Washington, DC – A new report released today by the Center for Economic and Policy Research examines unionization rates, the size and composition of the unionized workforce and the wages and benefits for union workers in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. “The union presence varies across states, but unions substantially raise wages and benefits for workers in every state,” said John Schmitt , the author of the report.

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The Union Advantage Across the States

February 3, 2010 Recovery Hampered by Peg to Euro For Immediate Release: February 3, 2010 Contact : Dan Beeton, 202-256-6116; 202-239-1460 WASHINGTON, DC – The Latvian economy has suffered the worst two-year decline in output on record and will have trouble recovering with its currency tied to the euro, according to a new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research.

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Fixed Exchange Rate Has Produced World’s Worst Recession In Latvia, Says New CEPR Report

February 2010, John Schmitt This report reviews unionization rates, the size and composition of the unionized workforce, and the wage and benefit advantage for union workers in each of the fifty states and the District of Columbia, using the most recent data available and focusing on the period 2003-2009. Pooling data from the monthly Current Population Survey (CPS) over that period yields a sample size large enough to look at the experience of even the smallest states.

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The Unions of the States

Political Map of Canada Canada has a single-payer health care system. Everyone pays the government based on their total earned income, and then the government decides who will be treated, based on special interest groups “need”.

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Canadian provincial leader rejects single-payer care to get heart surgery in USA

February 2010, Mark Weisbrot and Rebecca Ray The Latvian recession, which is now more than two years old, has seen a world-historical drop in GDP of more than 25 percent. The IMF projects another 4 percent drop this year, and predicts that the total loss of output from peak to bottom will reach 30 percent.

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Latvia’s Recession: The Cost of Adjustment With An “Internal Devaluation”

The Romeike Family, formerly of Germany Story here from the UK Telegraph . (H/T ECM) Excerpt: The case of the homeschooling couple from Germany who were granted political asylum in the United States, about which Ed West blogged recently, becomes even more interesting if one reads the remarks of the man who granted the Romeikes asylum, Immigration Judge Lawrence O. Burman, of Memphis, Tennessee.

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Federal judge awards German homeschooling family political asylum

Promoted by Steven Foley Erick Erickson has a good take on a Washington Post article by Sally Jenkins . Quote: The groups that run full page ads of women with duct tape on their mouths every time a Republican President nominates a judge want to put duct tape on Pam Tebow’s mouth

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What Is It Worth To Scrap the Tebow Ad?

David Axelrod’s appearance on Meet the Press , this past Sunday, where he said that he hopes health care reform isn’t dying in Congress is prompting Eric Cantor’s office and many of us on the right to ask – Who’s In Charge? Who’s steering the ship? DAVID GREGORY : Mary Landrieu, conservative Democrat from Louisiana, said it’s on life support — health care.

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Axelrod "Hopes" Health Reform Isn’t on Life Support; Who’s In Charge?

Remember this debate ? Atheism vs. Theism and The Scientific Evidence of Intelligent Design Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 4pm PST, Stanford University Christopher Hitchens — Contributing editor to Vanity Fair; visiting professor, New School in New York; author of God is Not Great

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Junk Science Update: Yesterday, I shared some links with you , links I had sitting on my desk for a while, today, we get word that more climate science shenanigans have been unearthed. First it was hide the decline, bad tree ring data, and suppression of dissenting views… now it’s bad science based on a short telephone call about Himalayan glacier melt , sloppy science about the rain-forests , mountain top ice disappearance based on student dissertation and magazine article , and now — moving weather posts! The Guardian reports: Strange case of moving weather posts and a scientist under siege In the first part of a major investigation of the so-called ‘climategate’ emails, one of Britain’s top science writers reveals how researchers tried to hide flaws in a key study -Snip- The Guardian has learned that crucial data obtained by American scientists from Chinese collaborators cannot be verified because documents containing them no longer exist.

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Return of ClimateGate™: Moving Weather Posts!

Dean Baker Century Weekly (China), February 1, 2010 See article on original website (Chinese, subscription required) Ever since Keynes wrote The General Theory in the 30s economists have understood the mechanism for escaping the sort of slump the economy faced in the Great Depression. The key point was to generate demand.

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No Way Out: The Political Constraints Obstructing a U.S. Recovery

Story from the Heritage Foundation . (H/T The Washington Post via Neil Simpson ) Excerpt: A new study concludes that abstinence-only education had a significant and long-term effect in reducing teen sexual activity

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New study finds focus on abstinence in sex-ed classes can delay sexual activity

Berlusconi Calls For Israel In EU | Obama Spoiling Relations With China Illinois voters: Governor: Adam Andrzejewski Twitter: @AdamForIllinois US Senate: Patrick Hughes Twitter: @HughesForSenate

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Morning Coffee Update 2 February 2010

Rep. Paul Ryan Conservative Republican Paul Ryan’s response to Obama’s new 2010 budget

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Paul Ryan declares war on Obama’s record 1.56 trillion dollar budget deficit

Have you all heard of Phillip E. Johnson, the UC Berkeley professor who is the father of the intelligent design movement?

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Phillip E. Johnson lectures on science and the pre-supposition of materialism

Dean Baker TPM Café, February 1, 2010 Truthout, February 1, 2010 See article on original website Our political leaders continually assert that we should be thanking them that we are not in a second Great Depression rather than complaining about how bad things are. The second Great Depression theme came up repeatedly in the debate over the reappointment of Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke. It also featured prominently in Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s defense of his handling of the AIG bailout.

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The Second Great Depression Bogeyman

Consider this article from the Washington Post. (H/T Belmont Club via ECM) How Democrats prevent job creation Most of the article talks about how Obama’s temporary hand-outs will not create any lasting jobs – they’ll simply go away as soon as the government stops taking money from the private sector to pay for these public works projects. But then the article talks about free trade and how free trade creates jobs

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How Democrat policies cause unemployment to increase

Dean Baker The Guardian Unlimited , February 1, 2010 See article on original website It is probably best to leave the gods out of discussions of economic policy, but this barrier was breached last month when Goldman Sachs CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, told an interviewer that Goldman Sachs was doing God’s work. Most people will never have the opportunity to join Goldman Sachs’ gang of multi-millionaire bankers. However, by Mr.

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Brian Auten has a new book review posted up at Apologetics 315. The book is “If There’s A God, Why Are There Atheists?”, by theologian R.C. Sproul

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MUST-READ: Book review of “If there’s a God, why are there atheists?”

A source for the United Nations IPCC report on global warming Story here in the UK Telegraph .

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UN IPCC global warming alarmism based on student essay and magazine article

Obama reads “My Pet Goat” to a class of 6th graders, as the real unemployment rate hits 17% These are all from Gateway Pundit. First, ANGER : Then, MORE ANGER : And in this video , he claims that the health care negotiations really did take place on C-SPAN. Who are you going to believe

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Latest videos of Obama show increasing anger, confusion and irrationality

Great post by Matt at MandM on an often misunderstood verse. Here’s the passage in question, Matthew 7:1-5 : 1 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged.

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Did Jesus really teach that it is wrong to judge others?

Why, self-refutation is the most wonderful thing in the world, next to irony.

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What is self-refutation and what are some examples of self-refutation?

ECM sent me this amazing video from Andrew Klavan. The video contains three examples of how the leftists in the entertainment industry lie to their gullible audience about the way the world really is

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MUST-SEE: Does the entertainment industry tell us the truth about reality?

Dean Baker Sacramento Bee , January 30, 2010 See article on original website Deceptive mortgages helped feed the housing bubble whose collapse wrecked the economy. Ten percent unemployment and 20 million homeowners underwater might seem a good reason to impose tighter standards on mortgages and other loans

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Consumer Protection Agency Would Stop Economy-Gutting ‘Bubbles’