Conservative Links 12-23-13

• George Will: "The New American Entitlement" Is "To Go Through Life Without Being Offended"
  Keep reality far away from the equal democratic voters.
• Did B.F. Skinner really put babies into boxes?
  How to manipulate a nation: "we respond better to variable reinforcement than to regular rewards."
• Who mourns the coming of the Kali Yuga?
  When societies leave reality behind, they decay and collapse from within. Only a few will escape.
• Back to the Future: Traditional Catholicism and the Next Generation of Priests
  You can't bring new people into religion by making it more like the entertainment and social roles they already have; they'll just stick with those. Go traditional instead.
• Islamic charity officials gave millions to al-Qaeda, U.S. says
  Heritage is more important than obedience to neurotic, impotent host nation law.
• Poverty nation: How America created a low-wage work swamp
  Raising wages sounds good, but by raising labor costs it makes business work around labor.
• Obama's Misguided Obsession With Inequality
  Leftism is a fanatical crusade for equality. This produces inequality.
• Dutch Move From Welfare State To 'Participation Society'
  Free hand-outs encourage passivity and resentment; getting everyone involved creates a sense of unity.
• Is pedophilia a sexual orientation?
  Those Duck Dynasty guys may not have been wrong. The left's next push is to legitimize pedophilia.
• Congress Does Little Of Consequence, Except Argue
  Democracy creates a war of appearances, so reality is soon forgotten.
• Navy sailors have radiation sickness after Japan rescue
  New touchy-feelie gay-friendly military great at appearances, bad at protecting from known threats.
• Obama administration quietly extends health-care enrollment deadline by a day
  The liberal method: when our plans don't work, we adjust appearances to make everything seem just fine, comrade.
• Khamenei tweets: Zionists are just like the Nazis
  Zionists, Nazis and all nationalist groups are just trying to preserve their own kind. As long as they avoid Holocausts, is that wrong?
• Surge of Romanians 'could hit schools and hospitals': Fears migrants coming to Britain will put huge pressure of public services
  The public doesn't get it: that's the point. Create the surge, and then use it to justify more government and more dependency. Backdoor socialism via immigration.
• M&S faces furious backlash from customers over Muslim policy
  Store allows Muslim employees to not sell pork or alcohol, prompting customer revolt.
• European Commission pursuing Britain in scores of law suits
  Large federal empires mean rule by the lowest common denominator.
• Conservatives strive for something beyond this world
  We need to uphold ideals more than "pragmatically" adjust to present-day disadvantages.
• Amid Steady Deportation, Fear and Worry Multiply Among Immigrants
  It doesn't take much to make illegal immigration unprofitable and unpredictable, and thus not worth the risk.
• 'Good guy with a gun,' not gun control, stopped Arapahoe High rampage
  The mainstream media has been in denial that this shooting was planned to be much, much worse but the gunman faced armed opposition and blew his own head off instead.
• There's a new jobs crisis – we need to focus on the quality of life at work
  Just expand on this concept as must be done to be honest and say that most jobs are busywork, ruled by territoriality and appearance, where most people are bored and unstable and become hateful.
• The Battle Within the Democratic Party
  Democrats divided between the crypto-Communist radicals and the delusional moderates who thought that all that extremism wasn't part of the left, ignoring several centuries of data.