Conservative News Links 01-10-14

• FIELDS: Are our universities shrugging off higher education?
  
• The decay of the profession of arms
  
• Shocking Study Finds Lions are Nearly Extinct in West Africa
  
• Billie Jean King on U.S. delegation: 'We are what America looks like' 
  
• Prisoners believe they are just as law abiding as non-prisoners
  
• Facebook Data Scientists Prove Memes Mutate And Adapt Like DNA
  
• The Fate of Empires, by Sir John Glubb
  
• New research on plant intelligence may forever change how you think about plants
  
• Number of Independents at Record High, Mostly Because Conservatives Dislike the Republican Party
  
• More Google sleaze
  
• How Primitive Sociology is Killing the Church of England
  
• We want a United States of Europe says top EU official
  
• Russia: Six deaths, car blast prompt security sweep ahead of Sochi
  
• All December Job Gains Went to Women
  
• Participation rate in labor force matches 35-year low
  
• 1930s-style debt defaults likely, says IMF research
  
• 16 House Republicans to Obama: Amnesty 'Final Economic Blow' for American Workers
  
• Why America Is Headed Toward Bankruptcy In 13 Terrifying Quotes
  
• Metamaterials could perform calculus with light waves
  
• The Maligned Tea Party
  
• The Outlaw Campus
  
• The Mystical Ethics of the New Atheists
  
• For the first time, most US lawmakers are worth $1m or more
  
• Palin and Romney shouldn't forgive MSNBC hosts for liberal hate speech
  
• Your light bulb loss is manufacturers' gain
  
• The “War” on Poverty Turns 50: Not a Success in Sight
  
• Articles: The Holder Effect
  
• If You Really Care About Ending Poverty, Stop Talking About Inequality
  
• High-fliers at risk of isolation and depression from internet addiction
  
• Articles: How to Do the War on Poverty Right
  
• Scientists reject claims of record cold being caused by ‘global warming’ – Time Mag. blamed ‘polar vortex’ on ‘global cooling’ in 1974 – Special Report
  
• Gonorrhea, Syphilis regain traction in US, CDC reports
  
• ‘Great Society’ agenda led to great — and lasting — philosophical divide
  
• Is Life a Ponzi Scheme?
  
• To Stop Procrastinating, Look to Science of Mood Repair
  
• Is the Universe Made of Math?
  
• New York cops call 'Knockout' attack harassment, not assault
  
• The Advocate says D.C. is the gayest city in America
  
• Indiana Chamber backs employers not hiring smokers
  
• Gifted Children Get Ignored in School Despite Huge Future Contribution to Society
  
• Beware the Left-Wing-Funded "Main Street" Republicans
  
• Snowden leaks severely hurt U.S. security, two House members say
  
• Financial Conflicts of Interest and Reporting Bias Regarding the Association between Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Weight Gain
  
• The Emerging Science of Consciousness: Mind, Brain, and the Human Experience
  
• Most self-proclaimed conservatives aren't actually conservative
  
• Kosher At Last: FAIR Breaks Taboo, Protests Big Donor Corruption Of GOP Leaders
  
• China surpasses US as world's largest trading nation
  
• The Mythical Monolith
  
• The biggest question facing the U.S. economy: Why are people dropping out of the workforce?
  
• Behind the Name: From Booker to Jamal to TeJay: Controversy and the Decline of Conventional and Afrocentric Naming
  
• Richard Vedder and Christopher Denhart: How the College Bubble Will Pop
  
• Nets give 'Bridgegate' 17 times more coverage in 1 day than IRS scandal in 6 months
  
• Feds pick Obama supporter to lead probe into IRS tea party targeting
  
• Experts slam DOJ letter telling schools to implement race-based punishments
  
• Feminists Accused of ‘Transphobia’
  
• The White Ghetto
  
• Our current situation is a lot like the situation right before WWI
  
• US power plant emissions down, study finds
  
• The Myth of the Rule of Law
  
• Colorado bill would recognize gay marriage -- in tax only
  
• The cause of partisan bitterness? Competent political competition
  
• Democrat Senator Udall Asked State to Cook Books on Obamacare Numbers
  
• Christie and the IRS
  
• An Amazon Indian speaks to us about manhood, home and what we men could be doing to protect our tribes.
  
• U.S. to Recognize 1,300 Marriages Disputed by Utah
  
• Playing classical music to your child can improve their listening skills later on in life
  
• The HuffPo-ization of the Right
  
• Loss of large carnivores poses global conservation problem
  
• Six Years from Its Beginning, the Great Recession-s Shadow Looms Over the Labor Market
  
• Consumers say they are paying more for health insurance
  
• Top Wikipedia editor outed for taking cash for edits
  SOP at the net's darling.
• Huge Romneycare Waste Hints at ACA Costs
  
• Mother's milk programs offspring's cognition
  Nature's way: more thoughtful than ours.