Last Week In Review

All political eyes will be on Massachusetts Tuesday. History is in the working. Republican Brown and Democrat Coakley are running to replace Senator Kennedy's seat in Massachusetts. This race was to be a blow out for the Democrats until about two weeks ago when the first poll that showed Brown even in single digits came out and since then Brown has taken a healthy lead of 5 or so points. If Brown pulls this off in Massachusetts filling the seat of popular Massachusetts Senator Kennedy after Obama, Kerry and the current Governor of Massachusetts along with the Kennedy's have all been strongly endorsing Coakley what a blow to liberalism in America and the current congress and White House. This could also effect the current health care legislation and the judges that Obama will nominate this last year that he will have this many Democrats in Congress. This is a big vote with big consequences on what Obama and the Democrat led congress will be able to do this last year with a Democrat majority. Most predict the super majority will be lost after this year which is not that hard of a prediction though things can change.

Actually, even if Brown looses this is already being viewed as a blow to the current Congress and White House the fact that the race is even close in liberal Massachusetts replacing such a prestigious seat as that of a Kennedy and not only that but liberal and Democrat Kennedy held this seat for 46 years and would normally be a yes vote on ObamaCare as health care reform was his life's work. Much more could be said here but I will leave it at that.

To watch debate of Brown vs Coakley and what they are campaigning see AvoidtheBias.com at Video of debate between Coakley, Brown and Kennedy for Massachusetts Senate seat.

Latest poll: Brown 50% Coakley 46%. Balance may be coming to congress before 2010 if Brown is elected.

Breaking Poll: Rasmussen has Senate race in Massachusetts with Coakley (D) 49% and Brown (R) 47% - Rasmussen accurately polled the Presidential election and results in Virginia and New Jersey Governor races 

Pollster.com releases live polling chart for last week of Massachusetts Senate race between Coakley and Brown 

Headlines

Haiti

Ministries from across America respond to Haiti. Just check out these email updates in the past couple of days from various conservative Christian groups alone.

Health Care

World Health Organization ranks the US health care #1 in "responsiveness to the needs and choices of the individual patient"

Testimonies

Video: Michele Bachmann interviewed on CBNNews. Talks of politics, women, family, faith and how she became saved.

Video Interview with an ex-vampire: Anne Rice talks about her conversion and new book called Angel Time 

Colt McCoy of the University of Texas gives glory to Christ after loosing national championship game

Video: BBC News story of descendants of a missionary eaten by cannibals and the now mostly christian descendents of the cannibals reconciling on island where the events all began.

Polls

Rasmussen Poll: "Most .... think the average reporter is more liberal than they are"  

Video

Pro-life

Virtual March For Life. If you can't be with the hundreds of thousands in DC this year sign up as a virtual marcher.

Video: Pro-life protesters protest Senator Casey unwillingness to protect tax payers from funding abortion at Casey event. 

Health Care

Video: Governor of Arizona vows to fight health care legislation via states rights if it passes and asks a "no" vote on it from her delegates. 

Taxes

Private sector continues to shed jobs as more and more government workers are making close to $10,000 a month.

Same Sex Marriage

Gay Activist honored by Obama administrations says the God of the Bible is a "sinful homophobic bigot".

Science  

Picture of Sultan Kosen the tallest man in the world next to He Pingping the shortest man in the world.

Faith and Family Philanthropy

American Psychological Association New Study shows "Sex doesn't sell—nor impress! Content, box office, critics, and awards in mainstream cinema. "

Taxes

CBS News actually reports tax payer funded trips of our Congressmen and women to Copenhagen and how much carbon dioxide this all produce. 

Associate Press analysis reports that tax payer funded road projects via the stimulus package do not help unemployment.

ABC reports on bonuses for bailed out Wall Street banks but fail to mention $43 million in bonuses for Government owned Fannie and Freddie after cap of bailout has been lifted from $400 billion to unlimited.

Pro-life

LifeNews reports on yet another charge concerning a killing of a woman who refused to have an abortion in Florida

Man accused of giving pregnant girlfriend abortion drug to force an abortion.

Last Week in Review

President Obama has worse polling numbers than Bush in his last year of office according to Rasmussen's disapproval ratings in December and now Gallup concurs as Obama starts off January 2010 with the worst disapproval rating since Eisenhower. See: President Obama has his worst monthly approval rating yet in December and people identifying themselves as Democrat is at an all time low as Republicans gain their biggest lead in the congressional polling.

Just a note of interest at Values Voter News the most key worded entry that comes to Values Voter News is "obama approval rating chart" which has continued to spike since late October which is consistent with Google trends spike. It is great that there are alternative media sources that fill the gaps that Big Media seem to miss. This I believe is one of them. Big Media has been finally coming around to reporting on some of what has been in the alternative media for some time and as Obama's popularity drops despite Big Media I think Big Media will start coming around and be quite different in 2010 than 2009 thanks to the alternative media sources. They will probably still have their liberal slant though. For both sides on the current issues see AvoidtheBias.com.

One of the reasons for the rise in Obama's disapproval along with the economy, Gitmo detainee trials, unpopular abortion positions, current health care bill, national security, a growing monster of a government with no tangible result as of yet and broken campaign promises the latest being highlighted below on the legislative process of this health care bill.

Now to be fair our President has stepped into a rough economy but at the same time has done a lot of very unpopular things besides not meeting his objective on job creation as noted above and below is maybe the latest along with the national security failure.

Headlines

The CSPAN campaign broken promises from three different angles

Excellent video: Remember the first Bush "read my lips...no more taxes" well we have a new broken campaign promise "these negotiations will be on CSPAN"

Robert Gibbs clearly avoids the obvious that President Obama promised negotiations to be held on CSPAN and clearly that promise has been broken and continues to remain broken.

Image of actual letter CSPAN sent to congress to allow negotiations on healthcare bill to be televised on CSPAN   

The Terminator on the current health care bill

Video: Gov. Schwarzenegger says of the current health care reform in congress that this is "Health care to nowhere...Nebraska got the corn and we got the husk...a draft of bribes and deals" in his California state of address.

Fannie and Freddie predicted by many to become the biggest bailout is well on its way

Fannie and Freddie bailed out cap has been raised from $400 billion to now an unlimited amount of tax payer's money. 

Testimonies

Brit Hume to Tiger Woods: Choose Christ.   

Video

Education

Video: School Choice "Competition is better than Monopoly" 

Pro-Life

Video: Pro-life protesters at work in St. Louis offering a relationship with Christ and an alternative to woman seeking abortion.

Faith and Family Philanthropy

Video: Family in perspective

ACLU

Video: ACLU lawyer stumped with question on democracy. Watch...

Global Warming

Video: Global Warming or Global Governance

Quick Commentary

Bible Study from family reading of the Scriptures.

Values Voter News Stats 

Values Voter News stats for December '09

Highest and lowest rated posts for November at Values Voter News as Values Voter News maintains an overall rating of 4 stars or "Good"

First Amendment Case Victories

8 new first amendment case victories now totalling 162 victories since 06/2008.

Faith and Family Philanthropy

Study of 2600 teenagers reveals that being spanked from the age of 2 to 6 made them more happy and successful

Taxes

Tax payers funding college football? Unbelievable.

ABC WORLD NEWS reports that New York City estimates security costs alone for 09/11 trials will cost from $400 to $600 million. 

Pro-life

Husband pressures woman to get abortion and woman later commits suicide

Pro-life attacks

Arizona pregnancy center burned in apparent arson attack reports LifeNews.com. 

Pro-life studies

US National Cancer Institute researcher reverses position and admits abortion raised breast cancer risk

Second Amendment

Gun sales rocket in late '08 and early '09 as murder, robbery, rape and property crime plummet reports the FBI

Last Week In Review

Headlines

Two different sets of Christian parents in the UK forgive... 

Christian parents of a boy killed by a hit and run driver as he was walking home from church days before Christmas say, "God is giving us the strength to forgive...."  and related: A million people were admitted to hospital with an alcohol related illness in Britain last year: “Alcohol-related illness is reaching epidemic proportions in Britain. We cannot continue to ignore the seriousness of this health crisis.”

Video: Christian parents forgive bullies who killed their adopted daughter. and related: Matthew Shephard and Jason Shepard reveal some interesting and fair criticisms of hate crimes laws as hate crimes against ex-gays and heterosexuals are ignored. and This incident shows the injustice of "hate crimes" laws as 26 Asain students in Philadelphia High School were beaten by blacks and whites yet "racism" and "hate" are not mention once.

Homeschooler in Sweden "kidnapped" 

Video: Swedish government takes child from home-schooling family.

Video

Adult Stem Cells

Video: Leg of climber is saved by the ethically safe adult stem cell surgery not the ethically questionable embryonic stem cell research

International

5 local video reports on the case of the Vogelenzang's in the UK who were Christians taken to court for debating with a Muslim at their business and related: Government in the UK admits Equality Bill will force legal battles for churches if they wish to remain true to their faith

Video interview of Daniel Hannan on Fox News in December  

Health Care

Senator Baucus speech on the Senate floor gets 1.2 million YouTube hits in a week and two other government speeches on healthcare with another 7.9 million YouTube hits.

Misc.

Video: Michelle Markin interviewed and takes callers questions on CSPAN as she promotes new book titled Culture of Corruption

Liberal Media Bias

Video: Wow!!! I thought only conservatives got slammed on MSNBC check this out

Obama Watch 

Video update on Kevin Jennings from Family Research Council 

Polls 

Rasmussen poll reveals that Government workers and Private Sector workers feel just the opposite about the economy

Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska is DOWN 30 POINTS in the election polls after Health Care vote 

First Amendment Case Victories

US District Judge rules against city pohibiting the first amendment rights of pro-life protesters in Pennsylvania.

See letter: Assistant principle takes fliers and makes high school student cover her t-shirt that had the word "abortion" crossed out but attorney sends letter and all is well now.  

University of Minnesota backs away from a political litmus test for future teachers according to FIRE

Christmasophobia

Cities in Florida pull down nativity scenes from Christmas holiday displays

Taxes/Economy

San Francisco is the worst ran big city of the year according to the San Francisco Weekly. "Despite its spending more money per capita on homelessness than any comparable city, its homeless problem is worse than any comparable city's."

US Postal Service expects to loose $8 billion this year and yet it's very own inspector general recently found $800,000 in "imprudent" purchases over a 5 month period. 

More Americans moving from Democrat states to Republican states. Texas may pick up 4 new House seats while many Democrat states will loose one.

Pro-Life

Girlfriend and Daughter killed by boyfriend after refusing to have an abortion in Seattle. 

Values Voter News Stats

Top 10 most viewed posts of 2009 at Values Voter News

Faith and Family Philanthropy

Study of 20,000 women in British Journal of Cancer claims a link between cervical cancer and early sex.