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President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama traveled to Fort Bragg, North Carolina to speak to the troops on the end of the Iraq War.

The GOP controlled House of Representatives  passed an extend the payroll tax cut on a  vote of 234 to 193. The bill also cuts the maximum length of unemployment benefits from 99 weeks to 59 weeks, repeals some provisions of  health care law, changes the way Medicare pays doctors, removes environmental regulations, and allows construction of Keystone XL oil pipeline in time for 2012 election.

Politics Sunday is a hard look at news from the past week and the upcoming week in the political world with commentary and insights into polling tends. Política El domingo es duro noticias mirar la semana pasada y la próxima semana en el mundo político con comentario y visión de mesas de votación tiende

"The Week that Was" takes an in-depth look at the past week's social and political events that help shape America public opinion. We provide insightful commentary along with up-to-date (as well as past) polling data gatheredwith methodology based on careful scientific analysis.

The political magazine with a full cup of Coffee and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos números de las encuestas entre las recargas.

"I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a Christian," says Perry, who has been struggling in national polls. "But you don't need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there's something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas or pray in schools."

He goes on, "As President, I’ll end Obama's war on religion. And I'll fight against liberal attacks on our religious heritage. Faith made America strong. It can make her strong again."

Rick "Texas" Perry

President Obama travels to Osawatomie, Kansas to deliver an address on the economy where he invoked Theodore Roosevelt's populism and challenged Republican belief in "trickle-down economics".

Just over a hundred years after the Bull Moose delivered his “New Nationalism” speech in Osawatomie, Kan., Obama touted his own "Square Deal" .

Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt  was the 26th President of the United States  He was a leader of the Republican Party and founder of the  Progressive Bull Moose Party of 1912.

The Gentlemen's Agreement with Japan came into play in 1907, banning all school segregation of Japanese, yet controlling Japanese immigration in California. That year, Roosevelt signed the proclamation establishing Oklahoma as the 46th state of the Union.

I offer a commentary on moral discourse in which I explain that so much of moral discourse misses the big problem (as Johnathan Haidt misses the big point). The big point is that what people say they believe morally and how they act often do not jibe. And why do they not jibe? Because it is one thing to say what one's moral beliefs are but it is another thing to actually live by them. And Dostoevski explained why this is. The problem is, said Dostoevski, that most people most of the time do not act with self-interest; instead they act so that their willfulness must prevail.  So the big point is that until people can make their moral pronouncements match their actions, discussions of morality often end up being rationalizations. The problem is that most people live by their WILL more than by their self-interest. This is why so many religious moralizers are immoral in their private lives. This is a big problem in moral discourse---so much of it is intellectualizing and rationalization for willfulness. We need to know why people do not act in their self-interest and instead are just willful. And then we can understand morality. Until that time, all moral discourse will miss the mark, in my opinion. Until we know why willfulness is more powerful than self-interest to most people most of the time, we cannot get a grip on understanding morality. Willfulness is a reflection of the emotional brain and self-interest in a reflection of the higher intelligence brain function. Human beings still have big problems knowing how their emotional brain stops them from making effective us of their higher-brain functions. J D Holiday Psychologist Ph.D

“There is no attack on American culture more deadly and more historically dishonest than the secular effort to drive God out of America’s public life.”Newt Gingrich on hypocrisies in American politics

Jerry Pippin  hosted our morality segment.

In 1997 House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) face an unprecedented reprimand from his colleagues and pay $300,000 in additional sanctions after concluding that his use of tax-deductible money for political purposes and inaccurate information supplied to investigators represented "intentional or . . . reckless" disregard of House rules.

James Cole the special counsel concluded that Gingrich had violated federal tax law and had lied to the ethics panel in an effort to force the committee to dismiss the complaint against him. He said the committee members were reluctant to go that far in their conclusions, but said they agreed Gingrich was either "reckless" or "intentional" in the way he conducted himself.

The Right of centre GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain of Atlanta GA has  suspended  his 2012 presidential campaign.

He was only the fifth African American to run for president on a major party ticket (Shirley Chisholm 1972,Jesse Jackson,Dr Al Sharpton,Barack Obama and the Herman Cain).

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