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Tea party discussing conducting voter fraud on Facebook. (via Wisconsin Tea Party Members Claim They’re Collecting Petitions For Walker Recall – So They Can Destroy Them | Crooks and Liars)

CBS News’ 60 Minutes aired a report last night alleging that several members of Congress have traded stock using information they received during private briefings or meetings, enabling them to profit from inside information. One Day After Attending Private Economic Crisis Briefing, GOP Financial Services Chairman Bet On Stocks Tanking | ThinkProgress Worth watching.

Youth Unemployment in United States in Line With Arab Spring Countries

Mike Konczal crunches the numbers on employment to see how it might relate to Arab Spring and OWS. Wonky but worth a read.

70% of Occupy Wall Streeters are Employed, Compared to 56% of Tea Partiers

That still means that they have an unemployment rate that is 3 times the current national rate.

Top 10 Worst Anti-Science Websites

I was happy to see Huffington Post listed. With luck, someone at HuffPo will take this as an opportunity to review what health and medical advice they publish.

War on Drugs or Welfare State?

If the War on Drugs didn’t directly precipitate the Welfare State and the destruction of the American black family, why did welfare aid to families spike in lockstep with our prison population right as that War started? Well, if you’re familiar American drug laws, it shouldn’t surprise you that some 90% of those arrested under the Rockefeller Drug Laws in the years after its passage were minorities. Sure, correlation doesn’t prove causation – but when you stop a moment and consider that marriage requires an eligible male, it’s not that hard to figure out why the modern Welfare State emerged in tandem with our War on Drugs, as it’s a little bit difficult to marry someone behind bars:

Groundhog Day Jobs Number Report

I feel like I’m in the movie Groundhog Day when it comes to the job numbers. I wake up on the first Friday each month to the same story — subpar job growth, no budging in key indicators, the insanity of the “anti-stimulus” of bleeding government jobs – and then wake up to it again next month. This month looks like the past dozen: 80,000 jobs wsere created, while the government sector shed 24,000 jobs.

If the elimination of public sector jobs causes growth in the private sector, then why isn’t that happening?

Can Science and Faith Exist Together?

Accepting the Bible as God’s literal truth doesn’t mean that we discount science. It does mean that we interpret scientific evidence from the biblical viewpoint. We evaluate the same evidence as evolutionists, but they interpret it from their viewpoint. Evidence isn’t labeled with dates and facts; we arrive at conclusions about the unobservable past based… Continue reading Can Science and Faith Exist Together?

Herman Cain

Why is anyone surprised that the same GOP base that doesn’t care if women die because they can’t get an abortion would be bothered by women being sexual harassed?

The Recovery The Fed Wants

the FOMC meekly “anticipates that the unemployment rate will decline only gradually toward levels that the Committee judges to be consistent with its dual mandate.” If the unemployment rate is not currently at a level consistent with the mandate and is also not converging rapidly toward a level consistent with the mandate, then in my view the FOMC ought to do something new and dramatic in order to fulfill its mandate. Instead, the FOMC is standing pat. They think 9.1 percent unemployment and moderate growth is fine and they don’t intend to do anything about it.