Conservative News Links 01-27-14

• Interview: Mahzarin Banaji And Anthony Greenwald, Authors Of 'Blindspot' : Code Switch : NPR
  
• Hinduism is the Target, not Caste Discrimination
  
• Opinion: Al Qaeda, Iran ... and Canada plot?
  
• Turns out Hiring a Woman is Discriminatory
  
• Wikipedia's Sexism
  
• Greene: Is Big Brother coming to your job?
  
• Where Does Identity Come From?
  
• Are blacks hypocrites or stupid? Part 1
  
• India is Drowning in its Own Excreta-Can Science and Engineering Come to the Rescue?
  
• George W. Bush is smarter than you « Keith Hennessey
  
• The Weekend Interview with Donald Kagan: 'Democracy May Have Had Its Day'
  
• How Big Data Is Playing Recruiter for Specialized Workers
  
• Ann Coulter
  
• The first world war: Look back with angst
  
• The Associated Press
  
• To hell and back for psychedelic rock icon
  
• Opinion: Put teeth in Google privacy fines
  
• BBC News
  
• Acrania
  
• BBC News
  
• Cloning takes California's ancient redwood trees abroad
  
• Promoting Mediocrity: Why Employers Don't Always Reward the Best Talent
  
• Why women should embrace a ‘good enough’ life
  
• The Tech Industry’s Darkest Secret: It’s All About Age
  

 

Conservative News Links 01-25-14

• Educated and Ignorant
  Education is propaganda, not an increase in ability.
• Houston cuts the wrong programs to benefit the wrong people
  
• Free Crack Pipes Urged To Slow Spread Of HIV In SF, Leaders Balk At Idea « CBS San Francisco
  
• The downside of diversity
  
• How Silicon Valley’s most celebrated CEOs conspired to drive down 100,000 tech engineers’ wages
  
• Salmonella infection mitigates asthma -- ScienceDaily
  Having a familiar infection prevents more radical foreign ones.
• The fanaticism of liberals
  
• Sustainability is destroying the Earth
  
• Thomas Sowell: What have we to show for our 50-year war on poverty?
  More state dependency. More dependents. More strife.
• Why are American students in denial?
  
• Two Powder Kegs Ready to Blow: China & India
  
• Space travel vital to our survival, says UK astronaut
  We spent money on entitlements instead of our future. Let's reverse that.
• You're a racist and there's nothing you can about that.
  
• Hand guns should be legalised and licensed, Nigel Farage has said
  
• The world's most ancient Christian communities are being destroyed — and no one cares
  
• Stop oppressing Bushmen, anti-apartheid hero tells Botswana: News-africareview.com
  Diversity not working anywhere.
• Diversity And "Ambient Cultural Disharmony"
  
• MCTC prof reprimanded for alienating white students during structural racism discussion
  
• You Rang, Sir?
  
• Legalize dueling.
  Or rather: decriminalize.
• The Results Are In: Red States Dominate
  
• Is Christian meditation a contradiction?
  
• Why the much-hyped Oxfam study on global inequality is misleading
  
• Keep fascist Vona out
  Fear of nationalism in anti-nationalist EU.
• ASU fraternity suspended after 'offensive' MLK party
  
• Nordic welfare state being cut down to size
  
• Brain Implants Could Help Alzheimer's and Others with Severe Memory Damage
  
• Police crime figures not good enough for National Statistics quality mark, says UK Statistics Authority
  Liberals fudging crime stats again.
• Homeland Security Secretary: Illegals Have "Earned Right to be Citizens"
  
• European Commission Move Away from Climate Protection Goals
  
• When -Long-Form- Is Bad Form
  
• On masculinity and the War on Poverty
  
• Freedom is something to use or lose
  
• Secret Audit Finds Baltimore's Speed Cameras Unreliable
  
• Ignoring Facts and Attacking Character
  
• Recent surge in HIV rates amongst heterosexuals in the UK caused by “female sex tourism” say experts
  
• Washington Redskins Name Debate Reaches United Nations « CBS DC
  
• IRA's bloody past can't be whitewashed
  
• Wall Street adviser: Actual unemployment is 37.2%, 'misery index' worst in 40 years
  
• Bees collect polyurethane and polyethylene plastics as novel nest materials
  
• US military admits something is wrong with its nuclear weapons
  
• Colorblindness is the New Racism
  
• Made in China: LA's smog is the latest product from the Asian superpower exported to America
  
• Three white college students file racial discrimination complaint against professor over lesson on structural racism
  
• Conservative filmmaker behind anti-Obama documentary indicted for violating election law
  
• Maternal and fetal exposure to pesticides associated to genetically modified foods in Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada
  
• Genes that fit: Tulane freshmen discover shared sperm-donor dad
  
• Mother of British schoolgirl lashes out at toxic digital world that caused her daughter to suicide
  
• Barack Obama Receives Illegal Donations from Palestinians
  
• Millennials: abuse victims
  
• Russia & The Revolution
  
• Propaganda in the Impartial Media
  
• Love in the Time of Obama
  
• The Nationalism FAQ
  
• 16 Basic Principles for Avoiding Stupidity
  
• The U.S. Crackdown on Hackers Is Our New War on Drugs
  
• Jonathan Haidt on Psychology and Politics
  
• Historic California drought called a red flag for future of US (+video)
  
• America's Hidden Retirement Crisis Is Racial
  
• '2016: Obama's America' Filmmaker Indicted for Violating Campaign Finance Laws
  
• A time for memories — University of Leicester
  

 

"The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs."
— A Year With C. S. Lewis

Conservative News Links 01-23-14

“The most savage forces beat a path, and are mainly destructive; but their work was nonetheless necessary, in order that later a gentler civilization might raise its house. The frightful energies - those which are called evil - are the cyclopean architects and road-makers of humanity.”
–Friedrich Nietzsche

• Sitting At Work For Hours Can Be As Unhealthy As Smoking « CBS New York
  
• To Each According to His Delusions
  
• U.S. Likely To Hit Debt Ceiling Sooner Than Believed
  
• How algebra ruined my chances of getting a college education
  
• Laptop multitasking hinders classroom learning for both users and nearby peers
  
• Government conspiracy theories aren't crazy: Column
  
• America Hates Its Gifted Kids
  
• What Does Our DNA Say about How We Look?
  
• A Southern Illinois Reader Reminds Us That It-s The Birthday Of A Great American: Robert E. Lee
  
• The history of the hating leftists
  
• Water found in stardust suggests life is universal
  If we don't get our act together, nature's warming up another planet -- or ten million -- in the bullpen.
• From Gandhi to MLK, history’s giants have become marketing tools
  
• Record 20% of Households on Food Stamps in 2013
  
• Wall Street adviser: Actual unemployment is 37.2%, 'misery index' worst in 40 years
  
• Jennifer Gratz, others knock Black Student Union's demands at University of Michigan
  
• Earth Won't Die as Soon as Thought
  
• Bruce Charlton's Miscellany: Why is intelligence seen as a gift, but hard work is praised as a virtue?
  
• Being Black at University of Michigan organizers threaten 'physical action' if demands aren't met
  
• NASA finds mystery rock that appeared from nowhere, is "like nothing we've ever seen before"
  
• The Working Rich
  
• Being a black president affects approval rating, says Obama
  You Suffer (But Why?)
• It’s time to reject crony capitalism and embrace the real thing
  
• What if man-made climate change is all in the mind? – Telegraph Blogs
  
• Science Magazine: Sign In
  
• European Commission Move Away from Climate Protection Goals
  
• Alternative Right: THE ESSENCE OF LIBERALISM: THE CHEERLEADER EFFECT AND SELF-ESTEEM
  
• Cyber attack that sent 750k malicious emails traced to hacked refrigerator, TVs and home routers
  
• Ukraine’s Opposition Says Government Stirs Violence
  
• Milky Way may have formed 'inside-out:' Gaia provides new insight into galactic evolution
  
• On masculinity and the War on Poverty
  
• Karl Marx's Revenge: Class Struggle Grows Around the World
  
• Smart enough to know better: Intelligence is not a remedy for racism
  
• Wall Street adviser: Actual unemployment is 37.2%, 'misery index' worst in 40 years
  
• Study finds troubling relationship between drinking and PTSD symptoms in college students
  
• The Economist: How the Jews control Congress
  
• Evidence of biological basis for religion in human evolution
  
• Beyonce, Jay-Z, Kanye African Americans Miss Billboard Hot 100 in 2013
  
• CURL: The drip, drip, drip of Benghazi
  
• Discovery of quantum vibrations in 'microtubules' corroborates theory of consciousness
  
• Scientists baffled as Sun activity falls to century low
  Does not fit narrative. Get a rope.
• The Growth of College Grads in Dead-End Jobs
  
• NHS patient data to be made available for sale to drug and insurance firms
  
• Jill Abramson: 'This is the most secretive White House I have ever dealt with'
  
• Extreme workloads plague scientists at the start of their careers
  No wonder they're all bitter.
• Israel foils Al Qaeda plot to attack American Embassy in Tel Aviv
  
• Iowa GOP warns motorists about police checkpoints
  
• Marx Is Back
  
• Income inequality is not as extreme as many citizens think
  
• Red State, Blue State: Which States Have Received the Most Federal Funds Since 2000?
  
• Water found in stardust suggests life is universal
  
• BBC News
  
• Researchers find connection between Asia pollution, changes in weather
  
• Wendy Davis blurred a few facts in her life story
  Pattern of parasitism and dishonesty.
• Why are lawyers killing themselves?
  
• The Humanities and Us by Heather Mac Donald, City Journal Winter 2014
  
• NCSU professor becomes convinced that colleagues built big research project on false foundation
  
• Study: Women with lots of sex partners most likely to have abortion
  
• For the Love of Money
  
• An Unsung Hero of Civil Rights
  
• Superbugs Are a 'Costly War We Can't Win': Doctors
  
• The Identity Question
  
• Atlantic current changes could bring drier summers to the UK
  
• City ignored pleas to ax ‘lunatic’ principal
  
• Parental exposure to marijuana linked to drug addiction, compulsive behavior in unexposed progeny, rodent sudy finds
  
• 'Full House' star says she's 'submissive' to her husband
  
• HOW TEAMS REALLY WORK
  
• Vladimir Putin's daughter 'to marry the son of South Korean admiral'
  
• Insurers downgraded on ObamaCare fears
  
• Google Gets a Nest, But Is It Flying Too High?
  
• 'We Are Creating Walmarts of Higher Education'
  
• Amazon workers opt out of a union
  
• Toddlers' Aggression is Strongly Associated with Genetic Factors : News : Parent Herald
  
• Gallup: 58 Percent of Americans Oppose All or Most Abortions
  
• In U.S., 65% Dissatisfied With How Gov't System Works
  If it's dysfunctional, let's overthrow it and replace it.
• Is a mini ice age on the way? Scientists warn the Sun has 'gone to sleep' and say it could cause temperatures to plunge
  
• My Dad Will Never Stop Smoking Pot
  Grim, miserable, realistic article.
• Is this life real or a simulation?
  
• The Myth of Cognitive Decline: Non-Linear Dynamics of Lifelong Learning
  
• Jared Taylor Announces The 2014 AMERICAN RENAISSANCE Conference
  
• Collapse: What’s Happening to our Chances?
  
• Chill Out About Global Warming
  
• Putting 'Adam' in his rightful place in evolutionary history
  
• Enthusiasm on the left is like a bubble about to burst
  
• Alternative Right: EVERYONE A HARLOT
  
• Creating Tastier and Healthier Fruits and Veggies With a Modern Alternative to GMOs
  
• Which Countries' Nuclear Weapons Are Going To Get Stolen?
  
• HUD Suburb Integration Plan Undercut By Its Own Study
  The diversity police have come to count how many non-white faces are on your block
• Argument – Should hate speech be a crime? -- New Internationalist
  
• Why is the press fighting to protect Wendy Davis?
  The whole media is a campaign arm of the left-wing parties
• Obama's Manufacturing Hubs Mean Cronyism, Corporate Welfare And Less Innovation
  
• Works and Days » The Last Generation of the West and the Thin Strand of Civilization
  
• Toddlers' aggression strongly associated with genetic factors
  
• The truth is we are all living on Benefits Street
  

 

Conservative News Links 01-18-14

• Why So Many Emerging Megacities Remain So Poor
  
• Former U.S. Defense Contractor Arrested for Allegedly Trying to Ship Sensitive Information to Iran
  
• Demographers Discover The Fundamental Law Governing the Growth of Cities Discovered
  
• Indian President-s passionate plea against assimilating tribes
  
• Racism! Squirrel!
  
• Devastating Benghazi Timeline Reveals Obama MIA
  
• 10 jobs poised for explosive growth (Hint: they don't pay much)
  
• How Japan stood up to old age
  
• The Growth of College Grads in Dead-End Jobs (in 2 Graphs)
  
• Watermelon Environmentalists Cause Global Warming
  
• Balderdash: The Unbearable Accuracy of Stereotypes
  
• 13 House Democrats offer bill demanding government study on Internet hate speech
  
• Kimberley Strassel: IRS Targeting and 2014
  
• Is the U.S. too corrupt for single-payer health care?
  
• Is the United States a 'Racial Democracy'?
  
• How Liberalism Is The Ideology of Exploitation
  
• What happens when jobless benefits are cut? North Carolina may offer clues
  
• No title.
  
• US Army colonel: world is sleepwalking to a global energy crisis
  
• If you think communism bad for people, check out what it did to the environment
  
• The future of jobs: The onrushing wave
  
• The stealth jihad of Islamic immigration
  
• The snowball effect of overfishing
  
• Higher education, lower standards: Column
  
• Young 'pranksters' skewed landmark sexuality study
  
• Latinos set to surpass whites in California in March
  
• FreedomWorks Responds to the Omnibus Budget Surrender
  
• Swiss Member of Parliament Oskar Freysinger Has Had Enough
  
• Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza calls into Anarchy Radio in 2011 by NYDailyNews on SoundCloud
  
• Naheed Nenshi denies he wants quota system after Calgary mayor points out top city managers lack diversity
  
• Conservative insurgents strike blow against GOP Establishment
  
• No title.
  
• Study finds 5,893 natural gas leaks in Washington, D.C.
  
• Climate Change Disbelief Rises in America
  
• Big business wants amnesty even if you don't
  
• The death of expertise.
  
• The Danger of Telling Poor Kids That College Is the Key to Social Mobility
  
• Existential Depression in Gifted Children
  
• DEMING: Another year of global cooling
  
• Bristol University
  
• Sex making you smarter one tryst at a time: study
  
• Low-Income Schools See Big Benefits in Teaching Mindfulness
  
• What STEM shortage? Electrical engineering lost 35,000 jobs last year
  
• Right-Wing Documentaries Left in the Dark at Film Festivals
  
• Fighting a McDonald-s in Queens for the Right to Sit. And Sit. And Sit.
  
• A conservatism for the future
  
• New Report Finds Western Michigan Has 1,000 Fewer Jobs Due to Obamacare
  
• Technology and jobs: Coming to an office near you
  
• New study finds spirituality and religion protect against major depression by thickening brain cortex
  
• Censors on Campus
  
• Page Not Found » The Spectator
  
• The Toxins That Affected Your Great-Grandparents Could Be In Your Genes
  
• Do what you love, love what you do: An omnipresent mantra that’s bad for work and workers.
  
• The real low-wage issue: Not enough hours
  
• Why Did the Benghazi Story Change?
  
• Court Rules That Yelp Must Unmask the Identities of Seven Anonymous Reviewers
  
• The new intolerance: will we regret pushing Christians out of public life?
  
• Opinion: Even Lady Gaga knows pot is not harmless
  
• No title.
  
• Allen West: Obama ‘abjectly despises’ whites
  
• How I Rediscovered Faith
  
• How Quickly Will the Latest Arms Race Accelerate?
  
• America Is a Walking Disaster
  
• Brain Can't Empathize And Analyze At Same Time, New Study
  
• 403
  
• Sony's SRF-39FP Radio: The iPod of Prison
  
• George Will: Doubts over Common Core won’t be easily dismissed
  
• Brains age faster even with moderate drinking, study finds
  
• New analysis of rocket used in Syria chemical attack undercuts U.S. claims
  
• Facebook memes can evolve like genes
  
• Auburn researcher finds brain interactions differ between religious and non-religious subjects
  
• Microsoft says it's prepared to hand over Skype users' data to Russia
  
• Death by data: how Kafka's The Trial prefigured the nightmare of the modern surveillance state
  
• Who betrayed Navy SEAL Team 6?
  
• In Defense of Inequality
  
• davidthompson: Even Her Buttocks Feel Guilty (and Other Agonies)
  
• BBC News
  
• Study explores why TV audiences often don-t care about suffering in other countries
  
• (Some) Republican Lawmakers Get It About Legal Immigration
  
• Climate change is a backdoor to socialism; UN admits it
  
• Allies laughing at USA for weak foreign policy
  
• New: As crazy as it gets: Local press blames victim in Knockout Game.
  

Conservative News Links 01-12-14

• Ex-Soldier From Md. to Plead Guilty to Terrorism « CBS DC
  
• Quantum mechanics explains efficiency of photosynthesis
  
• Why President Obama Is Wrong on Inequality
  
• Opinion: Why I'm not afraid of dying
  
• Opinion: The f-word is everywhere
  
• Norway: Mass murderer Breivik reveals himself a Nazi, says he fabricated his “manifesto” to destroy counter-jihad movement
  
• Without Lines, When I Listen to J.S. Bach Am I Listening to Jay Z (whoever he is)?
  
• James Taranto: An Education in College Justice at Auburn University
  
• How baby boomers screwed their kids
  
• Defending Human Rights against Terrorism and Secular Nationalism
  "When the Islamic civilization, however, becomes an imperial power, expands into Europe, and has a larger number of people under its control - often in an outright military occupation - the idea of natural rights eventually gives way to the notion of divine command being only as revealed through the text, and it is the experts of the text that then interpret the divine command, rationalize it and justify it."
• Why Do We Hate the Suburbs?
  
• New York man charged with assault in 6 alleged 'knockout' assaults
  
• Should false rape accusers be sued?
  Yes, for assault with a deadly weapon called a lengthy prison sentence.
• Daily pot tied to age of first psychotic episode
  
• Sisters push for American Girl doll with disability
  
• African migrants protest, push for asylum in Israel
  
• Civil War ship found at bottom of Houston Ship Channel yields trove of artifacts
  
• What the 50-Year War on Poverty Tells Us About Government
  
• Staples Accused Of Cutting Employee Hours Ahead Of Obamacare
  
• What I learned about freedom from hitchhiking around America
  
• The business case for immigration ignores the national interest
  
• Men Are 'On Strike' Throughout The U.S.: What Are The Causes?
  
• The Radical Nature of a Quiet Life
  
• Opinion:Why are baby boomers so divorce-prone?
  
• Why America Is Headed Toward Bankruptcy In 13 Terrifying Quotes
  
• 'Negro' on form draws ire of prospective juror in New York
  
• Virus fans the flames of desire in infected crickets
  
• Statistics Don't Back Up Claims About 'Rape Culture'
  
• Mark Steyn: Global warming's glorious ship of fools » The Spectator
  
• Media Gives Christie Scandal 17 Times More Coverage In 24 Hours Than IRS Scandal In Six Months
  Any illusion that the press is anything but leftist propaganda should die now.
• Conservatives question US Chamber's plan to spend millions to defeat Tea Party style candidates in 2014
  
• Thug Life: Who-s your daddy? Apparently, no one
  
• Long-term benefits of coaching youngsters
  
• A Living Time Capsule Shows the Human Mark on Evolution
  
• Internet use linked to excessive work
  
• When Does the Kali Yuga End?
  
• As Shop Owner, Woman Sees Troubling Sides of Herself
  
• Obamacare may get sick if young Americans don't sign up
  That's the point: subsidize the aging liberal Boomers with the young and immigrants. "Good deal."
• Why Socialism Is on the Rise
  
• The Street Keynesians
  
• New York man charged with hate crimes for seven 'knockout' assaults
  
• Blew my load inside some broad on the dancefloor
  
• Evidence That More Psychiatry Means More Suicide
  

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.

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