Conservative News Links 12-25-13

• An examination of the effects of concealed weapons laws and assault weapons bans on state-level murder rates
  No greater violence around assault weapons, but where it's hard to get concealed carry, crime goes up.
• Juan Williams: Snowden 'puts himself above everybody'
  Millions of us follow orders. When there's a problem, we send a protest back up the legitimate line of command. We do this to avoid endangering others or destroying things we don't understand.
• Nursing Scholar Sheds Light on Bullying in Academia
  Academia and science are as controlled by social factors as round-buying order at your local bar.
• Do Women Need more Sleep than Men? Study
  Men and women have different abilities, different needs, and thus different roles/responsibilities.
• Distinguishing between yield advances and yield plateaus in historical crop production trends
  Modern society is based on cheap cereal grains. As these fade away, we will have a starving, angry, murderous prole problem.
• Atheism is an intellectual luxury for the wealthy
  It's a way of signaling that you're so rich and educated you can explain everything, and need no greater value than yourself.
• Of meteorology and morality
  This generation's Great Lie is global warming, which is a religion among scientists because it is convenient for the power structure that provides their funding.
• Denying Armenian 'genocide' is no crime: European court
  This opens the gates to Holocaust denial and other even more balkanized aspects of history.
• Politics of Folk
  The left archived folk music, but in the process, discarded any songs with non-leftist sentiment.
• When Is Cinnamon Spice Not So Nice? The Great Danish Debate
  The Nanny State is here to tell you that you can't use that much cinnamon. And you pay half of your paycheck for that service!
• Forget The Da Vinci Code: this is the real mystery of the Knights Templar
  We long for a society protected by warrior monks.
• 60% of Americans Unaware of Looming Incandescent Bulb Phase Out
  Your helpful government, in the name of Global Warming(tm), has banned incandescent bulbs and will force you to use more expensive and more toxic alternatives for negligible actual energy savings.
• The Power of the Hoodie-Wearing C.E.O.
  People are inclined to think non-conformists are more competent.