Conservative News Links 01-08-14

• Islands make animals tamer
  No competition, no will to compete.
• China tops Europe in R/D intensity
  
• Sweden accepts dozens of Eritrean asylum seekers from Israel
  Israel following sensible NIMBY policy regarding immigration, passes the third worlders on to suicidal Western nations.
• Reading books does re-wire your brain, but so does everything else
  
• 2 Parties Place Political Focus on Inequality
  
• US student loans bomb
  
• Opinion: Would the 'first conservative' recognize today's right?
  
• Learning How to Live in the Anthropocene: Ecstasy and grief at the end of an era
  
• Study: 49% of Black Men Are Arrested By Age 23
  
• Should Felons Lose the Right to Vote?
  
• The Presence of Female Conveners Correlates with a Higher Proportion of Female Speakers at Scientific Symposia
  
• Why aren-t the Wall Street criminals prosecuted?
  
• Academic boycott Israel
  
• Study highlights snowball effect of overfishing / More FSU News
  
• Chris Christie signs, lauds N.J. DREAM Act
  
• Teaching students not to think
  
• The Open-Office Trap : The New Yorker
  
• America-s Third World Energy Grid
  
• BBC News
  
• CABINET // The Behavioral Sink
  
• Geoengineering could bring severe drought to the tropics, research shows
  
• U.S. Rep. Paul Broun: It would be 'morally wrong' to give Georgia's undocumented immigrants the right to vote
  
• What Catastrophe?
  
• Bobby Jindal Says Obama's DOJ Cares More About Race Than Kids
  
• Hire by Auditions, Not Resumes
  
• How the brain heals emotional wounds: the functional neuroanatomy of forgiveness
  
• U.S. acts to keep minority, disabled students out of jail
  By making exceptions that are blind to justice, as usual.
• An Excerpt From Robert Gates' 'Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War'
  
• A Conservative Vision of Government > Publications > National Affairs
  
• Nearly Half Of Black Males, 40 Percent Of White Males Are Arrested By Age 23: Study
  
• Carmakers Keep Data On Drivers' Locations From Navigation Systems
  
• Australia sends in its navy to push asylum-seeker boats back to Indonesia
  
• Kent police arrest suspects from 100 different countries in 12 months
  
• U.S. senators push to admit more Syrian refugees
  
• Stonehenge Man: not just a pretty face
  
• The Center of What?
  
• Janet Yellen's 2014 To-Do List: Climate Change
  
• Senate Conversations: Paul Broun 'Fighting For Liberty'
  
• The Dark Side of Globalization: Why Seattle's 1999 Protesters Were Right
  
• Left Tries to Silence Conservatives Ahead of 2014 Midterms
  
• Green spaces deliver lasting mental health benefits
  
• Democrats Continue Class Warfare Rhetoric
  
• Seth's Blog: Trapped by tl;dr
  
• Democratic senator fires staffer over Republican friend
  
• The Pursuit of Racial Amity
  
• House Republicans Preparing Plan for Immigration Overhaul
  
• Shared Space
  
• New: Knockout Game in Los Gatos.
  
• Hollande Backs Ban on 'Anti-Semitic' Comedian
  
• Oz Conservative: Australia: horror that senator defends the traditional family
  
• Voluntary government checkpoints spark backlash
  
• Articles: Liberals Double Down on Inequality
  
• Unneeded voices
  
• Narcissism Unleashed
  What does liberalism bring? A wave of people who can focus only on themselves.

“Western civilisation needs a complete overhaul or it will fall apart one day or another. It has realised the most complete perversion of any rational order of things. Reign of matter, of gold, of machine, of number, it no longer possesses breath, or liberty, or light.”
— Julius Evola