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In a recent report on religious advocacy groups in the US, Pew lists the top 40 organizations by advocacy expenditures and policy makers and other government agencies and officials. Unsurprisingly, AIPAC comes in at number one.The top 40 groups account for 85% of all dollars spent by religious groups for the purpose of influence peddling. Because I tend to use the term "neocon" disparagingly, it

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The NFC North is arguably (in sports, what's inarguable, after all?) the best division in the NFL this year. There's a good chance both of the conference's wild card teams will come from it if Detroit is able to steal a big win against the Saints next week and Hanie is able to make things happen the way Cutler does. If the Packers are able to protect Rodgers against the Giant's front four in East

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To avoid privacy issues and still maintain an effortless archival system, I've created an Audacious Epigone facebook account. When I initially began using facebook for blog archiving, the social network still required a unique university email address to be tied to each account to keep it from becoming a myspace where spam accounts proliferated. That was sufficient (and effortless), but awhile

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In the previous post, we looked at the likelihood to have received treatment for a mental health problem by political orientation based on GSS data. It turns out that self-described political liberals are twice as likely to have been treated for mental health issues as conservatives are, with moderates falling in between*. This spurred several intriguing comments that I'll turn to the GSS again

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Ed Tom Kowalsky asks:I've often wondered if mental illness is more common among those who self identify as liberal than those who self identify as conservative. I suspect the answer is a resounding "yes," but I don't know if there is solid evidence justifying my suspicion.I'm not familiar with the relevant science, but a bit of googling turns up some survey results showing that Republicans are

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Over the last four years, I've tracked the results of Pew's "News IQ" quizzes that are periodically administered to a random sample of around 1,000 Americans. A couple of remarkably consistent results are how men are better informed than women are and that the average American is far less informed than readers of this and similar blogs are.Unfortunately, as honest as Pew is when it comes to the

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A couple of months ago, I experienced a personal first--a wart on the inside of my right pinky finger. Never having had to deal with such a hideous thing before, I just ignored it for several weeks. It was small and only noticeable at all when my fingers were spread out. I'd heard that the solution involved freezing it off, which isn't something I figured I'd be able to do on my own, and it

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When I was growing up, my family's moves around the country paralleled my dad's climb up the corporate ladder. Homesickness became an all-too-familiar status ailment of my childhood. I'd spend the first several months in a new state yearning to be back in the one from which we'd just come, and spend the last several months there dreading the next move to to yet another place. Deracinate, re-root,

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Recently, I created a boring graph tracing the federal tax burden over a 15 year period by income quintile. The story has been and will likely continue to be steady as she goes. There are no intended polemical points in that post or in this one--they're just outgrowths of my ignorance and curiosity.The following table shows the share of federal tax burden as a percentage of total money income (

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... now shows human biodiversity as the first definition at Urban Dictionary. Nice work again, everyone.

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DOUBLE CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE FOR READINGThe G.Y.M. (Guard Your Mind)the biological and anatomical basis of toxic thoughts and emotions and how to get rid of them practically. How we think affects our emotions and physical state. Bad thoughts deplete the brain of serotonin, a neurotransmitter that keeps depression at bay.Cornelius Browne and Dr. Christina Browne, psychiatrist, co-founders of

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In the comments of a previous post, I wondered to what extent intra-state birth rates correlated across racial groups. That is, in states where white fertility is high, are black and Hispanic fertility rates also high?I am unable to find birth rates broken down by race at the state level, but the Kaiser Family Foundation (which maintains a fantastic, data-rich website) does provide live births by

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As a frequent user of the GSS, I spend a lot of time looking at Wordsum scores. For those unfamiliar with the Wordsum test, it is a simple, 10 question definitional vocabulary test in which respondents earn one point for each word correctly identified from a multiple choice listing of potential synonyms (to see the actual test material, click here). I frequently employ it as a useful, though

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A few years ago, I became frustrated when unable to find a table of national governmental expenditures as a percentage of GDP by country. So, using data from the invaluable CIA World Factbook, I created one.It's gathered some dust, and an update is in line, especially since something or other having to do with the global economy occurred between then and 2010, from which the most recent data come

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Razib Khan recently posted a table showing racial self-identification among those of Mexican ancestry in the US as well as the racial self-identification of those of Mexican ancestry in a selection of states using data from the 2006-2008 American Community Survey. A couple of commenters, including Steve Sailer, noticed an apparent relationship between Republican-leaning states and the percentage

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It's commonly joked that within the first few moments of seeing a woman, men are envisioning what it'd be like to have sex with her.I have to confess that within the first few moments of seeing a man, I'm usually doing something similar. No, no, not that similar. I'm sizing him up, assessing whether or not I could take him. Is this normal? If not, what do guys think about first when they see

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It's no secret that fertility rates in the Western world outside of Israel and the United States are below replacement level, and the populations in some developed countries like Japan and Germany have already began contracting. The US, at 2.06 children per woman, would be treading water if not for the country's net immigration level.Sifting through new Census data, I came upon a file containing

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Half Sigma asks "What are you doing about HBD-denialism?"Creating definitions in the Urban Dictionary, that's what! Hey, it's something, at least. And voting these definitions to the top of their respective entries is something any reader is able to do right now, by going here and clicking on the thumbs-up for what is currently definition #7 [now at #2--keep pushing!], which reads as follows:An

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One of those fun troll roles to play involves telling secular leftists that irreligious Darwin lovers exhibit the least Darwinian fitness and telling pious creationists that they are winning the Darwinian race. While liberal atheists and agnostics aged 40+ average 1.78 kids, firmly theistic conservatives in the same age range average 2.69.I suspected when it came to worries about overpopulation,

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... now constitutes the first entry in the Urban Dictionary. Great work everybody!

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In taking a fresh look at how what Steve Sailer deems the marriage gap held up in the 2008 election, I came across an interesting US Census report on marriage rates and things related with data from 2009. The marriage gap still existed in '08, with McCain's share of a state's vote and the median duration of first marriages (age adjusted and for all races) in that state correlating at .85 (p = .00

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Alabama's new immigration law, deemed the toughest in the nation, has been in effect for a week after surviving legal challenges brought forward by the Department of Justice . In those first few days, some 2,000 Hispanic students--presumably the children of illegal immigrants if not illegal themselves--did not show up for school:Federal courts have struck down large parts of similar legislative

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Parenthetical to this post by OneSTDV comes results from the GSS showing that smokers have fewer friends than non-smokers do, (medians of 4 and 5, respectively; means of 6.9 and 7.7, respectively). These items are only able to be cross-referenced in 1986 (n = 1,463). Smoking wasn't cool then, and after a couple of decades of visceral crusading against it, it's now something mostly reserved for

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The Institute for Economics and Peace compiled a peace index ranking the 50 states (see the map here) earlier this year. The index uses five indicators in making the peace score calculations--homicide rates, violent crime rates, incarceration rates, per capita police officers, and the availability of small arms.At first blush, the last indicator seems to reveal an unsatisfying leftist outlook in

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While I've seen Steve Sailer point to then Texas Governor George W. Bush's complaints about racial profiling of and the use of "secret evidence" against Arab Americans on several occasions, I was a sophomore in high school at the time and so predictably not paying attention to US national politics. Consequently, I have no recollection of any of it. Fortunately, C-SPAN, the network that carried

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A post where OneSTDV asserted that women, credulous creatures that they be, are largely to blame for the medical industrial complex and social hypochondria (his phrases) made me wonder what the GSS has to tell us about sex differences on questions relating to the willingness to speak openly without regard to the sacred cows that may be impaled as a consequence, personal health, and what Half

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Welcome to the Reading List. Here are all the updates from any blogs you follow and sites you've joined using Google Friend Connect

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DOUBLE CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE FOR READINGTHE NEW ROLE OF YOUR GP. What Changes are ahead? Dr. Fiona Butler of the Redcliffe Surgery will be talking about:- 1) The White Paper - the vision and structures and timescale for this to be implemented.2) How the White Paper will translate locally - the development of clusters and sector commissioning, moving to GP consortia.3) What we hope the new

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DOUBLE CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE FOR READING"Ever wondered how you might stay positive, focused and optimistic in spite of the situation you find yourself in? Well, Andre Geel, a Chartred and Consultant Clinical Psychologist has some ideas that might be helpful. Over the last 10 years he has been working with carers in Brent, Harrow, Kensington and Chelsea, Islington and beyond - and has come up

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DOUBLE CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE FOR READINGNOT TO BE MISSED. This month's presentation will be facilitated by our special guest Siri Nirankar, a master in Yoga. CREATING SELF-LOVE is developing an unshakeable relationship with ourselves, an intense oneness, because the Self is the source of love. It is in our actions and not so much what we do, it is how we do what we do. Love is strength. Love

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DOUBLE CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE FOR READINGAt this month's meeting we have the opportunity to be the first to enlist the innovative NEURO-ADVOCACY Service. Please come and find out from Chartered Psychologist Roland Ackord, how carers and advocates can benefit from this support in their caring role. The meeting will be held at Committee Room 2, Kensington Town Hall, Hornton Street, London W8 7NX

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DOUBLE CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE FOR READINGTake Control of Your Life! Experts Patients Programme "Looking After Me" Course for Carers comes to Kensington and Chelsea.The course is about you making time to look after your own health needs, as well as those of the person you care for.The course is free to attend and is run over six weekly sessions, with each session lasting two-and- a-half-hours.

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DOUBLE CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE FOR READINGYou are cordially invited to The Kensington & Chelsea Mental Health Carers Garden Party on Saturday 19th June 2010 from 15:00-19:00 in the heart of historic Chelsea in the 18th century grounds of the Moravian Church, 381 Kings Road, Chelsea, London SW10 OLP. Buses: 11, 22, 328 end stop Worlds End.CELEBRATING DIVERSITY - BRING AND SHARE A DISH OF YOUR

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DOUBLE CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE FOR READINGThis month's meeting is not to be missed. ALL CHANGE? A legal perspective on the new CPA and Personalisation Agenda. Zoe Whittington of Campbell Taylor Solicitors speaks about the two recent changes in adult social care policy and how the changes impact on your legal rights. There will be practical focus to the session, looking particularly at how these

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DOUBLE CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE(from left to right) Monique Klang-Voves, Chair of the K&C Mental Health Carers Association, David Wood, CEO of Attend, Leonora Mansell, Trustee and Award Winner. The Kensington and Chelsea Mental Health Carers Association is proud for Leonora Mansell, our ex-Treasurer and Trustee to be chosen with 71 volunteers from the London Region from amongst 27,000

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DOUBLE CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE FOR READINGThis month's meeting will introduce Jobcentre Plus' new initiative for carers. The new Work Focussed Support for Carers (WFSC) Programme will fund replacement care whilst you are in work based training. Find out about this new opportunity on Tuesday 16th March 2010 at Committee Room 2, Kensington Town Hall, Civic Entrance, London W8 7NX. Nearest tube:

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DOUBLE CLICK ON IMAGES FOR ENLARGEMENTTrustees of the Kensington and Chelsea Mental Health Carers Association, Mayoress and Mayor of RBKC. From left to right: Ms Janet Forbes, Committee Member, Ms Monique Klang-Voves, Chair, The Mayoress of RBKC Mrs Timothy Coleridge, The Mayor of the Royal Borough Cllr. Timothy Coleridge, Ms Linda Eaton, Secretary.Representatives of the K&C Mental Health Carers

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Glitter Text MakerThe Kensington and Chelsea Mental Health Carers Association was chosed by the Waitrose flagship store at Westfield's new glam shopping centre at Shepherds Bush as a charity of the month in November 2008. We greatfully received the monthly donation of the Community Matters programme and a donation of food vouchers for our AGM.

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The Mayor of the Royal Borough, Councillor the Hon. Joanna Gardner and host Cllr. Pat Mason opened the launch of the Carer Advocacy Service of the Kensington and Chelsea Mental Health Carers Association at the beginning of Carers Week 2008 in Committee Room 1, Kensington Town Hall. Photography by Darren Bell.DOUBLE CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE Host, Cllr. Pat Mason and some of the Carer Advocates

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The K&C Mental Health Carers Association was represented by Kitty Larkin and on the panel of speakers by Monique Klang-Voves, who were campaigning for carers rights, addressing Benefits Minister Ann Maguire.

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Councillor Fiona Buxton (Cabinet Member for Housing Services, Adult Social Care, Public Health and Environmental Health, RBKC) congratulates committee members of the Kensington & Chelsea Mental Health Carers Association on their achievement of PQASSO.More than 40 representatives of local organisations came to Kensington Town Hall to find out about various quality systems, and also to celebrate

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CLICK ON HEADLINE FOR LINK ON PETITION KCMHCA supported a briefing of BMH UK on the impact the 2006 Mental Health Bill will have on African Caribbean communities who are currently subject to excessive use of the current Mental Health Act. Read more on above link. The meeting was hosted and chaired by Sarah Tether MP for Brent East. Matilda MacAttram, director of the human rights campaigns group

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