Thursday, May 10, 2012

Items of Interest, 10 May 2012, Part 1

Conservative? by Stratford Caldecott

A Teaching for [r]epublicans: Roman History and the Nation’s First Identity by M. E. Bradford

The Constitutional Thought of Thomas Jefferson by James W. Ely, Jr.

PJB, Is This the End of One Europe

The Right’s False Prophet
Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America, Paul Gottfried, Cambridge University Press, 182 pages
By Kenneth B. McIntyre

Thomas Fleming, Mrs. Warren's Professions and Obama's Dramatic Revelation

Obama, Marriage, and the “Anti-Gay” Theme by Matthew J. Franck
Marriage and Procreation: The Intrinsic Connection by Patrick Lee, Robert P. George and Gerard V. Bradley
We the People and Homosexual Marriage
Two Steps from Reasonable About Marriage by Stephen J. Heaney
PJB, The Antietam of the Culture War
Orson Scott Card, What Right is Really at Stake (Was it removed? Republished here.)

James Matthew Wilson, Contraception and Signs of Contradiction: Part 2

Yia-Yia's Nagging Morals:
Last year a Greek food company produced a series of creative and wildly popular ads that juxtaposed modern young people doing what modern young people do—cohabiting, dressing immodestly, and being a stay-at-home dad...

Why hasn't the West already collapsed? Why the delay? Providence?

The Stark Truth: Interview with Virgil Goode (mp3)

Who the hell is "Julia," and why am I paying for her whole life? by David Harsanyi

Richard Spencer, The Future of Alternative Right

Bill Kauffman, How I Met Eldridge Cleaver

Tomgram: Ernest Callenbach, Last Words to an America in Decline

Peter Hitchens, Blood and Iron versus Bread and Wine, the Sad Fate of France in a German Europe

American Empire and Leviathan:
U.S. Military Taught Officers: Use ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics for ‘Total War’ on Islam

Daniel Larison, Obama's Foreign Policy Isn't Restrained or Prudent, Democratic Realists and Obama's Foreign Policy

The Hive and the Heterodoxy by Kelley B. Vlahos

The President’s Private War by Andrew P. Napolitano

Video Shocker:TSA Aggressively Pats Down Congressman

Surveillance State Democracy

Srdja Trifkovic, The Syrian Rebels and the KLA,
Srebrenica as Holocaust

Drores in US Flight Paths

Michael Hill, The False Idol of American Democracy

John Michael Greer, Descent into Stasis

Confederate Memorial Day

The Policeman's Your Friend - As Long as He Can Afford to Be

Counterpunch:
DAVE LINDORFF, The Subsidized Student Loan Scam
RALPH NADER, The Greediness of Brain Drain
TINA LYNN EVANS AND TOM KERNS, Fracking Humanity
KEVIN CARSON, The Crackdown on Occupy
THOMAS H. NAYLOR, Either Way, It’s Business as Usual (Naylor advocates the complete break-up of the "Federal" union.)
PATRICK COCKBURN, The Last Months of Osama bin Laden
HARVEY WASSERMAN, The Nuclear Industry Has Melted in Japan and France


Economics:
Kevin Carson, ALEC’s Fake “Free Market” Apologists on the Right
New IMF working paper models impact of oil limits on the economy by Gail Tverberg (EB)

Distributist Review: A Review of Money as Debt

Bare Bones Biology 106 – Richard Heinberg (mp3)

The Age of Limits Conference: The Conversation I Would Like to Have by y Orren Whiddon

Water commons, water citizenship and water security (EB)
by Buenaventura Dargantes, Mary Ann Manahan, Daniel Moss, and V. Suresh

Killer Summary of Austrian Views of Money, Banking and the Fed — Delivered in Congressional Testimony!

Chris Martenson on TED letures: 'Cornucopians in Space' Deliver a Dangerously Misguided Message

America the Possible: A Discussion with James Gustave Speth, May 15 (essay also available at Yes! Magazine)

Relocalization:
Mark T. Mitchell on Robert Nisbet, Multiply Your Associations and Be Free

A report on ‘Peak Money and Economic Resilience’, a Transition Network one-day conversation

A California Bestiary

Filipa Pimentel on Transition in Portugal: “we try to reduce money exchange in everything we do”
Peak cycling? Bikes are oil hungry beasts
Leveraging Their Localness: A New Piggly Wiggly Commercial All About Local

A New Kind of Corner Store: Healthy Local Food for All

Is Facebook Making us Lonely (FPR)

Permaculture and Farming:
Suburban Permaculture with Janet Barocco and Richard Heinberg

More on Tara Firma Farms

Planting and Mid-Life Crisis



6 Ideas for the Future of Food

Farming Future Despite What Neighbours Think


Peak Oil and Energy:
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Oil Wars on the Horizon
Visualize Gasoline by Richard Heinberg (EB)
The peak oil crisis: perspective by Tom Whipple (EB)

Kickstarter: The Watt: An Energy 101 Primer

Silencing Communities: How the Fracking Industry Keeps Its Secrets

Can renewable energy sustain consumer societies? by Samuel Alexander

A tide of oil and greed by Erik Wallenberg

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