Republicans Remain Disproportionately White and Religious

47% of Republicans in the U.S. today can be classified as highly religious whites

White House: Obama "Prays Every Day" - Political Hotsheet - CBS News

"The President is obviously a -- is Christian," Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton said. "He prays every day. He communicates with his religious advisor every single day. There's a group of pastors that he takes counsel from on a regular basis. And his faith is very important to him, but it's not something that is a topic of conversation every single day."

Low temperatures tie records at LAX, Oceanside | L.A. NOW | Los Angeles Times

Record low temperatures for the date were tied Wednesday at Los Angeles International Airport and Oceanside in San Diego County.

The temperature was 58 degrees at LAX, tying a record set in 1951, the National Weather Service said. Oceanside dropped to 66 degrees, tying a record that has stood since 1914.

"The Coldest Winter I Ever Spent was a Summer" in Los Angeles | NBC Los Angeles

The high today at LAX was 67 degrees.

Meltdown of the climate 'consensus' - NYPOST.com

If this keeps up, no one's going to trust any scientists.
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The warming "scientific" community, the Climategate emails reveal, is a tight clique of like-minded scientists and bureaucrats who give each other jobs, publish each other's papers -- and conspire to shut out any point of view that threatens to derail their gravy train.

Such behavior is perhaps to be expected from politicians and government functionaries. From scientists, it's a travesty.

In the end, grievous harm will have been done not just to individual scientists' reputations, but to the once-sterling reputation of science itself. For that, we will all suffer.