POLITICS: Congressional Database -- WAPO

U.S. Congress Votes Database - The Washington Post

PSYCHOLOGY: Book Review of the Social Animal

David Brooks receives a largely negative book review

EMPLOYMENT: Selected Tables

These are selected unemployment rates by demographic Years 2006-2011

SCOTUS: Scalia at odds with rest of Court

Justice Scalia Objects - NYTimes.com: "Boumediene v. Bush"

POLITICS:WI Senate dies End Run to control unions

Wis. GOP bypasses Dems, cuts collective bargaining

ECONOMY: Danger of another dip, seen

Flirting With a Repeat of an Economic Reversal - NYTimes.com

POLITICS: Finding Gates Successor

A successor to Gates is a quandary for Obama

POLITICS: Classifications

Beyond Red vs. Blue: Profiles of the Typology Groups - Pew Research Center for the People & the Press

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CONGRESS Unable to separate trivial or self-serving from important

WAPO -- Congress brushes aside urgent DOD requests for self-serving or inane matters

EDUCATION Teaching of high school biology

Less then 30% of high school biology teachers explicitly teach evolution, while almost 15% directly teach "intelligent Design," in their classrooms.

EDUCATION Creationists trying again

The Scopes strategy: creationists try new tactics to promote anti-evolutionary teaching in public schools. Under the guise of "academic freedom" creationists are co-opting some old heroes of the fight to teach evolution in the classroom for their anti-science campaign

POLITICS Candidate Gingrich Emerges

On the 2012 campaign trail with Newt Gingrich, with religion a major component

MILITARY Illegal use of Psy-Ops teams on Congress

Rolling Stone -Army uses Psy-Ops teams on visiting Senators to get funding

LEGAL SCOTUS hears 10th Amendment case

SCOTUS weighs Congressional power

EDUCATION Academic freedom vs. responsibility

Politicizing the Classroom: Part One

ECONOMY Market Crah Predicted around Christmas 2011

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Politicians lie. Bankers lie. Yes, they’re liars. But they’re not bad, it’s in their genes, inherited. Their brains are wired that way, warn scientists. Like addicts, they can’t help themselves. They want to sell stuff, get rich.

MILITARY Political Correctness Kills -- The Fort Hood Case

Words you can’t say at the Pentagon

PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY -- A Must Read

A Wakeup call for Self Sufficiency and the taking of personal reresponsibility

POLITICS Republicans at risj with Budget cuts

Republicans at serious risk by pursuing Draconian cuts in social as welo as other programs