Monday, February 13, 2012

Items of Interest, 13 February 2012

Thomas Fleming, The Conservatives' War on Marriage
Obama’s Game by Srdja Trifkovic

Steve Sailer reviews Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, by Charles Murray - The Bell Curve’s Toll. (Plus, Ross Douthat gets the Charles Murray book's biggest oversight)
NPR
Coming Apart, and Back Together? by Ryan T. Anderson

What Madison Meant - a review of Kevin Gutzman's book on James Madison, which is official released today.

Blog: The Incendiary Insight

Russell Kirk: What is the Object of Human Life

David Walker, Our make-believe federal budget

Trollin’ all the Sheep: The Grammys are Decadent and Depraved by Jordan Bloom
I read elsewhere that they did not televise Alison Krauss and Union Station being awarded their Grammy. I don't think the group performed, either. Their competition was supposedly pretty good.

Afghanistan:
Afghanistan, Unreformed, Unreformable
Fabius Maximus: Rolling Stone releases Colonel Davis’ blockbuster report about Afghanistan – and our senior generals!

Obamacare:
Robert George, An Unacceptable Accomodation
Notre Dame Professor: White House Announcement Today Is ‘Inadequate’
HHS “compromise” is Unacceptable, says former Vatican ambassador, Catholic University of America president, and others
Why the “Hawaii Compromise” is No Compromise At All
Bp. Slattery (D.Tulsa) on Pres. Obama’s “Plan B”
Glendon, George react to Obama’s “morally obtuse”, “insult to the intelligence”, and “cheap accounting trick”

Counterpunch:
Foreclosure Settlement: Just Another Link In a Long Chain of Corruption by PAM MARTENS
The NDAA and the Militarization of America by CARL MIRRA
Decoding the Pentagon’s Budget Numbers by WINSLOW T. WHEELER

Economics:
Richard Heinberg Schools Vancouver on the New Economic Reality
Peak oil educator Richard Heinberg challenges “binary thinking”
It's the end of the world as we know it, author says

Max Keiser Interviews Dmitry Orlov


Derrick Jensen: A New Declaration

Relocalization:
The New Geography of Trade: Globalization’s Decline May Stimulate Local Recovery by Fred Curtis and David Ehrenfeld (EB)
Bay Area investment group connects socially responsible lenders, local farmers
Building the local food infrastructure by Olga Bonfiglio
A different way to spend – CSA style by Tim Lawrence (EB)
New Study: Locally Owned Businesses Contribute to the Health of their Communities

Energy:
Tom Murphy, The Alternate Energy Matrix (EB)

Water:
Texas Water District Acts to Slow Depletion of the Ogallala Aquifer

Feminism and Misandry:
Swedish Feminists: Men Must Sit With Their Legs Crossed
All Men are Official Suspects
As Mancession Fades, Women “Suffer”

Christianity:
Circe Institute: The Primary Purpose of a Woman
Traditional Christianity: Gender’s Separate Spheres

William Oddie, If a woman is a priest, she can also be a bishop: if she’s not, she can’t. Either way, there is now only one way out for Catholic Anglicans: it’s over the Tiber
The Real Anglican Patrimony
Manifestations of Lived Continuity: A.D 1000 to A.D. 2012

Mexico:
Stay away from Mexico. (Or most of it.)

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