The best of the best at Dakota Voice last week, including: Chris Matthews: West Point Military Academy is ‘Enemy Camp’; Evangelical Scientists Speak Out on Global Warming Hoax; Palin Tops Washington Post 2012 GOP Poll; Climate Model Source Code the Source of Global Warming Hysteria; House Republicans Grill Obama Science Advisor on ClimateGate; Looking for Global Warming in Minnesota; Huckabee Clemency Beneficiary Again Wreaking Havoc; and more!

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation commentator Rex Murphy sums up the ClimateGate relations about monkey business in global warming data, stating we wouldn’t accept this kind of sloppy science at a 9th Grade science fair.

Evidence demonstrates that “once a society’s basic needs—food, shelter, employment—are satisfied, the accumulation of greater and greater wealth does not generate greater collective or personal happiness over the long run.” This is known as the Easterlin Paradox.

A story of scalping and how some Indians learned to treat survivors has proven to be centuries ahead of scientists and discussions about new medical therapies. Perhaps we should heed the words of Ecclesiastes 1:9:
That which has been is what will be,
That which is done is what will be done,
And there is nothing new under the sun.

A health care bill amendment that the Senate passed Thursday has pro-life groups fretting that the door is again open to the federal funding of abortion. In a 61-39 vote, the Senate approved an amendment by Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) that mandates coverage of any preventive care or screenings for women by the Health Resource and Services Administration.

As world leaders prepare to gather in Copenhagen to discuss a global strategy for combatting climate change—a strategy likely to involve a substantial growth of government power at the expense of individual and economic liberty—a shock wave of controversy threatens to shatter what many have come to view as settled science.

The Baltimore City Council has passed a bill requiring crisis pregnancy centers to post signs saying they do not “provide or make referrals for abortion or birth-control services.” Now it awaits the mayor’s signature. What’s driving it? Three things.

Support for government health care continues to drop like a rock, falling to anemic levels. The latest Rasmussen Report poll finds only 27% of American voters support a single-payer government health care system–down 5 percentage points since August.

A group of evangelicals, comprised of scientists, economists and theologians, called the mainstream view of pending catastrophe caused by climate change a “hoax” at an event Thursday just days ahead of a key U.N.-sponsored climate change conference in Copenhagen. The evangelical scholars argued that science, contrary to what many leading scientists claim, does not support the claim that increased CO2 in the atmosphere is having a negative effect on the earth.

Leaders and members of mainline denominations are being called to add their signatures to the Manhattan Declaration and stand for the “sanctity of human life, the dignity of marriage and the rights of conscience and religious liberty.”

At Christmas 2,000 years ago, God walked away from the glories of heaven to come to earth looking like any of us fallen creatures. God did so to be able to identify Himself with us while paving the way so that one day we too could experience the glories of heaven.

The Cambrian explosion has been called the most spectacular event in the history of life, for in a moment of geological time complex animals first appeared on earth fully formed, without evidence of any evolutionary ancestors. Charles Darwin viewed this as an inexplicable mystery. Early in the Cambrian period compound eyes, articulated limbs, sophisticated sensory organs and skeletons burst into existence seemingly out of nowhere, without evidence of the gradualism upon which evolutionary theory depends.

Yesterday in the U.S. House of Representatives, Republicans read from several of the leaked emails from the Climate Research Unit in England which illustrate scientific fraud relating to global warming. One of them was from John Holdren, President Obama’s Science Czar.

A panel on Fox News points out that some of the economic groups common sense would say should have been at President Obama’s Jobs Summit were notably absent. Charles Krauthammer: “It’s the conceit of liberals in power to imagine that the government not only should, but can create jobs.”

The Discovery Institute, an intelligent design think tank, has filed a petition against the California Science Center for refusing to disclose certain public documents. The petition comes after the American Freedom Alliance filed a lawsuit against the science center for canceling a contract to screen a pro-intelligent design video at the center’s IMAX Theater.

Nearly 40 percent of Americans are willing to forgo another holiday gift and have that money given to charities instead, a recent survey shows. Results from a new survey for the American Red Cross reveal that two out of three Americans say it’s more important this year to give something to charity because of the economy.

Rev. Carlton Veazy, president and CEO of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, told a small crowd of pro-abortion protesters that women have a “God-given right” to abortion.

Thirteen embryonic stem cell lines were approved Wednesday for federally-funded research with assurance from the director of the National Institutes for Health that research on them is ethical and does not violate principles on human dignity and sanctity of life.

A bill to legalize same-sex marriage in New York failed by a surprisingly wide margin Wednesday, chalking up another big win for traditional marriage advocates. The State Senate voted 38-24 against the bill

It might not be accurate, but it does help avoid dealing with unpleasant truths, doesn’t it?

Daniel Henninger from the Wall Street Journal examines ClimateGate and how he sees that undermining the objectivity of science. Our faith in the scientific community as objective seekers of scientific truth is dying because it is now plain to see that some in the scientific community are willing to distort scientific analysis to support their presuppositions.

Dennis Miller talked with Bill O’Reilly last night about the couple that crashed the party at the White House recently, and he was hitting on all cylinders with his biting comedic analysis.

It may be easy to dismiss the value of digital relationships but that is where many people are in the digital age and if Christians are committed to the command of Jesus to go and make disciples, then they need to be there too. That was the message that emerged at the Evangelical Alliance’s Digimission conference on Tuesday.

Washington, D.C.-based Family Research Council released on Wednesday a new study detailing the effects of pornography on marriages, children and individuals. “This is a ground-breaking review of what pornography costs families trying to create a life together,” said Dr. Pat Fagan, who authored the study and serves as FRC’s senior fellow and director of the Center for Research on Marriage and Religion.

The American Family Association announced on Monday that it is officially ending its boycott against Gap Inc. after the company aired an “unambiguous” Christmas ad over Thanksgiving weekend.