Conservative News Links 12-30-13

• Look back with angst
  "A century on, there are uncomfortable parallels with the era that led to the outbreak of the first world war" -- and 1861, and 1788.
• Solving Problems for Real World, Using Design
  When we point free enterprise at actual solutions, results are good.
• How mainstream education stifles 'something sacred'
  Schools are jails to teach zombie conformity and rank students by obedience to memorization contests. De-fund them and go back to tutors.
• Bill de Blasio to embark on battle against inequality as New York mayor
  All of liberalism is vote-buying. The best crusades are those that can never be won, thus justifying more and more money dumped into them "to win."
• What happened to downtime?
  Much as our schools make us zombies, our modern lifestyle conditions us to be reactive and never plan ahead.
• Brain function 'boosted for days after reading a novel'
  A good novel, that is, and you won't find many of those.
• How political correctness took down Navy SEALs
  Panic after Abu Ghraib creates circular firing squad among PC American forces.
• South Korea: Spread of the handwritten poster protest
  Liberalism promised growth and income for all, but always falls short, burning most people and rewarding only the absolutely obedient.
• McDonald's to pay $50,000 to Muslim employee in beard discrimination lawsuit
  Diversity means no common standard and thus constant internal warfare.
• A self-indulgent mother and the myth of 'starving' Britain
  Nobody's starving. What welfare does is reward clueless, irresponsible people for their bad decisions.
• The Old Regime and the New
  Improvements in society can be a precursor to revolution because they encourage population growth and set up an expectation of continued improvement that can't be met.
• Former Iowa State researcher faked HIV vaccine findings: ORI
  This was a $19m fakery and very obvious. How many subtle $2m fakeries get caught?
• The View from 1976
  Tom Wolfe predicted how our postwar wealth boom would end badly; namely, it promoted the proles into the middle class where their decisions reflected self-interest but not intelligence.
• WWII Vet's Blunt Message: 90% of Congress are Traitors to Our Country
  We've gotten degenerate and self-parasitic.
• Harvard Prof: Tea Party Not Going Anywhere, More Likely to Win
  They reflect the values traditionally held by the majority of Americans.
• The Evolution of Class Warfare in America
  All liberal politics consist of selling war against the haves to the have-nots. It's just a marketing gig.
• Scientists Petition U.S. Congress for Return to the Moon
  Let's leave entitlements behind and explore the stars. Pity is self-destructive; conquest is self-affirming.
• How I published a fake paper, and why it is the fault of our education system
  Academia and science continue revealing themselves as gravy trains, not serious study.
• Truth is Stranger Than It Used to Be
  With dominion over nature comes our ability to define "truth," which means "wishful thinking" apparently.
• The New York Times’ revisionist account of Benghazi
  How liberals evade responsibility: change the facts with innuendo long after the event when the memory hole swallows up details. Democracy!
• Philosophy and the Noble Life
  And the best way to live is...
• Conservative Credo
  "The conservative believes that that the True, the Good, and the Beautiful are interrelated, all things are measured against these three transcendentals."
• The Republican health care proposal
  I have another: reduce regulation and anti-discrimination law.
• US public finance: Day of reckoning
  The pension crisis is the first of many entitlements set up by the welfare state in the years since 1950. This is why global liberalism is failing: it's all run out of other peoples' money at once.
• It’s a Very Merry Christmas for Washington Insiders
  Government is a racket that uses your fear to justify its theft.
• The real gender war is against boys
  Society fears what it cannot control, neuter, neutralize and pacify so that each individual is safe from it.
• The New York Times Whitewashes Benghazi
  Usual suspects -- zombie liberals -- at it again.