Conservative News Links 12-12-13

• Social networks make us smarter, reveals study
  
• 100 Years of Breed “Improvement”
  
• The Hypocrisy of Aung San Suu Kyi
  
• Method of recording brain activity could lead to mind-reading devices, scientists say
  
• The Yin and Yang of Hour of Code & Immigration Reform
  
• Why Work As We Know It May Be Immoral
  
• CNN Viewer Has Questions « Profoundly Disconnected
  
• Kate's tears as death of Nelson Mandela was announced at London premiere of film of his life
  
• Businesses Stung by $15-an-Hour Pay
  
• Female Fort Hood soldiers recruited for prostitution ring, trial hears
  
• Someone's Been Siphoning Data Through a Huge Security Hole in the Internet
  
• Detroit Ruling on Bankruptcy Lifts Pension Protections
  
• New: Black Mob Violence: CNN asks a cop. They don't like what they hear.
  
• Carlos Javier: Chicago photographer documents gang violence that destroys countless young lives each year
  
• Opinion: A nuclear threat far greater than Iran
  
• Why Are Americans Staying Put?
  
• Review & Outlook: The Human Wealth of Nations
  
• Why Productive People Get Up Insanely Early
  
• How Long Have Humans Dominated the Planet?
  
• Nobel winner declares boycott of top science journals
  
• Why Liberalism Is On The Wrong Side Of History
  
• Vatican urges a slowdown in the rush to reform
  
• The 14 Potential Causes of the Income Slump
  
• ADA Beef Closes Barbecue Restaurant | Mad River Union
  
• Youths turned off on Obamacare: New Harvard Institute of Politics pollVoices
  
• NYC Politician Blames 'Jewish Success' for 'Knock-Out' Attacks
  
• Difficult Role of the Hyperintellectual
  
• Earth's love handles keep the satellites from falling
  
• I'm writing a book : help me bring back gun freedom to France
  
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• Witness Claims Hasids Who Beat Black Student Were Part Of Jewish "Police Force": Gothamist
  
• Boehner Hires Adviser Who Helped McCain Push Amnesty
  
• The Harshest Return
  
• Global-warming ‘proof’ is evaporating
  
• Personal Fresh Air
  
• Terracotta Warriors Inspired by Ancient Greek Art
  
• Lexington: Forget the huddled masses
  
• 6-year-old boy suspended from school for kissing student on the cheek
  
• Embryonic stem cell research falls out of favor as scientists go ethical
  
• Why the cult of hard work is counter-productive
  
• Top 10 percent of US households control nearly 75 percent of all wealth
  
• Judge orders baker to serve gay couples despite his religious beliefs
  
• Low-Information Leadership
  
• The Mystic Philosopher
  
• The rise of modern day real estate feudalism: How a majority of Americans are missing out on the gains of the new rentier class. » Dr. Housing Bubble Blog
  
• Norway is digitizing all its books and making them free to read online
  
• The challenge is growth, not inequality
  
• Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system
  
• US equities are absolutely a bubble right now: Stockman
  
• How U.S. Economic Warfare Provoked Japan’s Attack on Pearl Harbor: Newsroom: The Independent Institute
  
• Sheriff Rick Clark refuses to lower flag in honor of Nelson Mandela
  
• Neil Phillips quizzed for 8 HOURS by police after Nelson Mandela Twitter jokes
  
• I am a racist
  
• Wall Street, investment bankers, and social good : The New Yorker
  
• Poll: White Women Souring on Obamacare
  
• Review & Outlook: The ObamaCare Buck Finally Stops
  
• Congressional Study: Murder Rate Plummets as Gun Ownership Soars
  
• Led by Branstad, mainstream Iowa Republicans aim to recast GOP ahead of 2016
  
• Douglas Coupland: notes on 21st-century relationships
  
• Cancer, the Consummate Traveler
  
• Protestors Jumped In Front Of A Google Bus And Stopped It From Moving
  
• 'Muslim Patrol' jailed for harassing couple holding hands and men drinking in a bid to enforce Sharia law in East London
  
• This Isn’t a TV Show: Life as a Hoarder
  
• USA: The Next Detroit
  
• 7 Medieval African Kingdoms Everyone Should Know About
  
• The triumph of the maternalists
  
• Beware an unchecked president
  
• A Cold War Fought by Women
  
• Steve Sailer: iSteve: Life expectancy in South Africa
  
• Suppose they threw an election and nobody came
  
• Google Puts Money on Robots, Using the Man Behind Android
  
• BBC News
  
• South Africa struggles to live up to Nelson Mandela's legacy
  
• Brain shape affects children's learning capacities
  
• MSNBC's Alter Suggests Releasing Criminals from U.S. Prisons to Honor Mandela
  
• Genetics accounts for more than half of variation in exam results
  
• PLOS ONE: Who Needs Cream and Sugar When There Is Eco-Labeling? Taste and Willingness to Pay for -Eco-Friendly- Coffee
  
• News: Frequent Cell Phone Use Linked to Anxiety, Lower Grades and Reduced Happiness in Students, Kent State Research Shows
  
• What's a Jew to do on Christmas?
  
• Pushed Out of a Job Early
  
• The Pope and the Right
  
• Discovery of partial skeleton suggests ruggedly built, tree-climbing human ancestor
  
• NASA Curiosity: First Mars Age Measurement and Human Exploration Help
  
• OTL: Generation June
  
• Creativity is rejected: Teachers and bosses don’t value out-of-the-box thinking.
  
• Don’t mourn for Mandela
  
• A controlled family study of cannabis users with and without psychosis
  
• Google-s Road Map to Global Domination
  
• Impending Japan-China war has the makings of a Clancy classic
  
• If You're An American Who Believes In The 4th Amendment, You Have No Excuse Not To Sign This Petition
  
• Exclusive--Conservative Sen. Candidate Chris McDaniel: GOP 'Needs to Find Its Conscience'
  
• Umberto Eco and why we still dream of utopia
  
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• New battlefront emerges in war between Republicans, tea party
  
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• Minority-Dominated Class Graduates From New York Fire Academy
  
• Quality of biodiversity, not just quantity, is key
  
• Materialism: a system that eats us from the inside out
  
• What Hitchens got wrong: Abolishing religion won’t fix anything
  
• BBC News
  
• Martin Delany, 'Father of Black Nationalism'
  
• Rest In Whitewash: Networks Set to Ignore Mandela's Communist Party Ties, Dictator Friends
  
• University of Michigan News Service
  
• More black on white crime: Canton, Ohio
  
• Scientists to Congress: We Have the Technology to Find Alien Life
  
• Lacking inspiration? Exercise found to boost creativity
  
• Seymour Hersh Alleges Obama Administration Lied on Syria Gas Attack
  
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• Fulfilling the promise of Article V with an Interstate Compact
  
• Move over, Lexington and Concord: Worcester took first stand in Revolution
  
• Dyslexia Linked to Brain Communication Breakdown