Climate & Climate Politics

Anthony Fox Watts and FoxWattsUpWithThat.com chicken out hiding from Peter Hadfield aka Potholer54.

• Correcting misinformation about a face-to-face debate.wmv – YouTube
• TC and DW | Open Mind
• Jerk | Open Mind
• Rabett Run: A New Blog on the Blogspot
• First Post | ClimateChangeFork On “Deniers” entitled Climate Change and the Holocaust
• Hansen: It’s time for the politics to follow the science on global warming | Climate Science Watch

Religion

• An Accurate Genesis – YouTube 
  What if there really was an omnipotent, omniscient god responsible not only for the creation of the universe, our solar system, our planet and the life upon it, but also for the narrative of Genesis 1? Certainly there are those who already think this is the case. But, in The Bible Skeptic series, “What Genesis Got Wrong,” we know that the biblical tale of creation in Genesis 1 got virtually every detail of origins wrong. So what would a scientifically and historically accurate version of Genesis look like if it really had been inspired by a deity which truly was responsible for the creation of all we see as such origins have been discovered by the methods of modern science?Want to discuss this video’s topic? Feel free to visit the Bible Skeptic Forum at http://bibleskeptic.iftopic.com/ and invite other viewers to join you there!
• God is not good – Part 3 – with Josef Fritzl and William Lane Craig – YouTube

The Culture Wars

• Bill Donohue: “Nature Has Ordained” That Only Men And Women “Can Have A Family. Gay People Have Been Disqualified From Nature” | Media Matters for America
  

Politics

• The National Memo » How Ralph Nader’s Sins Set Trayvon Martin’s Killer Free.
  • Lewis F. Powell, Jr. – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  • American Legislative Exchange Council – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  • ALEC Exposed – Alec Exposed
  • ALEC Exposed: The Koch Connection | The Nation
• The conservative grip on power – Republican Party – Salon.com
  

  A ruthless GOP power grab, centered around the Supreme Court, has cemented conservative control in Washington

  BY LINDA HIRSHMAN

  

  Clarence Thomas, George W. Bush and Antonin Scalia  (Credit: AP)

  TOPICS:REPUBLICAN PARTY, SUPREME COURT, EDITOR’S PICKS

  Writing in Salon, Natasha Lennard proposes that with the warm weather we can again expect the Occupy movement to shoot up. Arab Spring, American Spring. She’s right about one thing: Like in the decades before the Arab Spring, it has been a long, cold, American winter. In the 30 years since coming to power here, Republicans have used their initial ascent to power to seal themselves into office as tightly as the pharaohs. Smart commentators have noted how lawless the conservatives are in making substantive decisions, but that’s not the worst of it. The worst of it is how they use their tenure to make it increasingly impossible to oust them.

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• Obama Calls On Congress To Pass ‘Buffett Rule’ Tax

The Health Care Debate

• The Promise and Peril of A Single-Payer Comeback
• Those Who Believe In Limited Government Had Better Hope ObamaCare Is Ruled Constitutional – Investors.com
• Kucinich: Single-payer healthcare on its way regardless of how Supreme Court rules – The Hill’s Healthwatch
• Single-Payer or Bust
• If Obamacare is overturned, will that lead to single payer? And would that be a good thing? – The Washington Post
• We have universal healthcare — by default – Other Views – MiamiHerald.com
  

  America, the richest country in the world, is the only advanced country without some form of universal healthcare for all its citizens. While countries such as Great Britain have a government-run, single-payer (or “socialized medicine”) system; others, such as business-friendly Switzerland, have a totally private system.

  Switzerland utilizes private health insurance companies and requires all of its residents to purchase health insurance through an individual mandate. It reformed its system several decades ago to a fashion similar to what is included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

  So, how has the Swiss form of the Affordable Care Act fared? According to the World Health Organization, quality of care is high, everyone has access to care and Switzerland spends only 11 percent of its GDP on healthcare. (The United States now spends around 18 percent of its GDP on healthcare — the highest in the world.

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• The Move to Single-Payer Health Care « Commentary Magazine

Climate & Climate Politics

• Monckton and Watts cut and run from debate with Potholer54 | Lousy Canuck

The Culture Wars (Health, Fitness, Diet, Beauty)

• Naked models offer a body image reality check – Body Image – Salon.com
• Eating Disorders and Media Influence – Body Image from Anorexia Celebrities to Athletes – Rader Programs
• PLUS Model Magazine’s Katya Zharkova cover highlights body image in the fashion industry | Mail Online

Politics

• Obama Backs Super PAC : Roll Call News
  

  In a switch, President Barack Obama is backing a super PAC — and directing senior government officials to appear at its fundraisers — over fears his re-election campaign could be derailed by an “avalanche” of money flowing into Republican super PACs.

  Obama Campaign Manager Jim Messina announced the decision in a Monday night email titled: “We will not play by two sets of rules.”

  “We decided to do this because we can’t afford for the work you’re doing in your communities, and the grass-roots donations you give to support it, to be destroyed by hundreds of millions of dollars in negative ads. It’s a real risk,” Messina wrote. [read on…]

• Obama super PAC decision: President blesses fundraising for Priorities USA Action – Glenn Thrush – POLITICO.com
• The Immoral Minority: Tea Party coordinator says “The Tea Party movement is dead, it’s gone!” How’s that for some good Tuesday morning news?
• Bruce Bartlett On The GOP Attempt To Make Sure Tax Cuts Don’t Count | Stan Collender’s Capital Gains and Games
• Chinese Fascism’s Global Consequences | Truthout
• The Maddow Blog – Optimism has a well known liberal bias
• The Non Sequitur » Too timid too object
  • Bright Minds and Dark Attitudes
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Politics — Mitt Romney

Climate & Climate Politics

• Monckton responds to Peter Hadfield aka “potholer54″ – plus Hadfield’s response | Watts Up With That?
• Santorum: I never believed global warming ‘hoax’ – POLITICO.com

Science

• Lawrence Krauss: Kicking God out of Physics.
  

  My latest hosted episode of Point of Inquiry, with Lawrence Krauss, is now up.

  Krauss is always a great guest, and this was no exception. To me, the most memorable part of the interview came when I tried to get at what kind of meaning audiences were were deriving from his new book, which is clearly striking a chord.

  And what became clear (at least to me) is that the book is flying off shelves because it finally “kicks God out of physics”–or at least, gives a fully plausible account of a universe coming to exist, and something coming from “nothing,” without anything supernatural about it…[read on…] 

• Epic creationist fails of our time — Population and magnetic fields proves young Earth — YouTube
  

The Culture Wars

• ‘Rob,’ ‘Parks and Recreation,’ and the Future of Latino Characters on Television | ThinkProgress

Business

• Mark Zuckerberg’s Real Genius: Building The Walmart Of Social Networks
• Mark Zuckerberg, the Hacker Way and the Art of the Founder’s Letter | Epicenter | Wired.com

Health

• Abigail E. Disney: A Commitment to Alzheimer’s