Items of Interest, 16 April 2012

The Sexual Revolution and the Will to Disbelieve
Uncanny Tales of the Moral Imagination

The Downside of Cohabitating Before Marriage

Patrick Deneen, At Home in a World Made Strange

In Pursuit of Happiness and Good Government

Ron Paul: Professor Obama Gets an F

The Celtic Mind (on Adam Smith and Edmund Burke)

Legal Atrocities by Chase Madar

Mark Mitchell, Gender Matters

A review of Jack Donovan's latest (mp3)

JHK on race relations: A Kid with Skittles
Derbyshire, Weissberg, And Dog-Whistling: Conservatism Inc's Uneasy Balancing Act

Norway mass-murder suspect admits to killing 77, claims self-defense.


Dave Walker Guest hosting CNBC’s Squawk Box

The Occupy Movement’s Vacuous Critique of Inequality by Carson Holloway
OWS Critique: Grasping for Straws?
Inequality of persons may be a fact of life, but inequality of wealth can be mitigated, instead of allowing the wealthy to amass more wealth at the expense of those who do not have economic freedom. Mr. Holloway seems to be more of a good Republican than anything else.

Economics:
Nothing Grows Forever
How San Francisco Can Lead the Sharing Economy
Voice of an Innovator: Sustainability Makes Sense

Relocalization:
The Economics of Happiness Conference and The Rise of The Localization Movement

In Transition 2.0 - a story of resilience and hope in extraordinary times DVD

Karen De Coster, “Ingredients” Documentary on Local Food Systems - official site

The Big Lunch, a one-day get-together for neighbors

Permaculture:
The Permaculture Revolution Takes Root in Cities
Open Source Permaculture – help to build the most comprehensive free resource for Permaculture education (indiegogo)

Catholic:
Vatican Hoping to Make SSPX Announcement Early Next Week
The Catholic Bride
Traditional Catholicism Is Winning

Orthodox:
Orthodox Christians take steps toward unity
Iconography of the Bright Resurrection of Christ.
Orthodox Easter - in pictures
Ethiopian Orthodox Easter
Capella Romana: For Orthodox Easter, Music That Faces East
Gillibrand: Blessing of House by Orthodox Priest
Trusting God Rather Than Seeking Miracles

Diet and Health:
Karen De Coster, Benefits of the Paleo-Primal Lifestyle and Great Health

Paleo, Low Carb and Gluten Free Chain Restaurants: eating out while traveling

What’s Your Walk Score? by Tom Vanderbilt
The company that puts a number on walkability.

(Part 2: Sidewalk Science)

Jimmy Moore’s n=1 Experiments: ‘Safe Starch’ Sweet Potato

Music:


SFCV: Musica Poetica: The Baroque Before Bach

Waylon Jennings: 'Goin' Down Rockin' by Joe Leydon

Sleepy Man Banjo Boys - Blackjack


Earl Scruggs Tributes Archived at WSM Online

Ashley Campbell Hits the Scene (MS)

Ava Aston


AVALANCHE AND EARTHQUAKE – Michael Ruppert and the Lifeboat Hour

Jane Austen:
Lizzie Bennet Diaries: Monday Multimedia: Modern Stuff Edition(too Uhmerican)

ECD:
HWS Learns English Country Dance
Playford Ball_2012_Ricki and Donn in two-hand turn



Misc:


How one mathematician’s angry blog post led to 9,000 scientists starting a revolution

Ohio journalist trains with Ottawa County Special Response Team: “SWAT training is adrenaline rush” (video).

Modern-Day Battle Axe

Items of Interest, 20 March 2012

Sights and Sounds from the Abbey of Le Barroux

Mark Mitchell, Patriotism vs. American Exceptionalism

Calhoun, Jefferson, and Popular Rule by Lee Cheek

Daniel Larison, The Short American Century: The Conservatism of George Kennan

Paul Gottfried, Leo Strauss, Immigration, And Israel

PJB, The Glaring Inequality of Obamaville

Fabius Maximus: With a stroke of his pen President Hope and Change erased much of America

America, Rome and the Moral Imagination by Cindy Rollins

The End of the New Deal Coalition and the Transformation of American Politics by Thomas Storck

Something with Dr. Marshner:
Contraception Mandate and Formal Cooperation
Christendom College Theology Professor Explains Moral Implications for Catholics

Some thoughts for John Breen from John O'Callaghan, Thomist, on "health", etc.

David Walker:


Economics:
Making 9 Million Jobless "Vanish": How The Government Manipulates Unemployment Statistics by Daniel R. Amerman, CFA

Land Rent - the Genesis of the British Class System

Relocalization and Sustainability:
Why the Church needs to return to its pastoral roots: permaculture visions of a rural minster by Reverend Rob Brown |

Ralph Nader, How Greece threatens you and how going local offers the only refuge

The Roots of Sprawl: Why We Don't Live Where We Work

This Is The Lexicon Of Sustainability - Douglas Gayeton At Work

This Is The Lexicon Of Sustainability - Douglas Gayeton At Work from lexicon of sustainability on Vimeo.

The Future of Food


Toward Energy Literacy

Education:
Mathematics Education: Being Outwitted by Stupidity
In long-expected move - legislators, school districts outlaw the children

Diet and Health:
MDA: Dear Mark: Excess Skin After Major Weight Loss?
The LLVLC Show (Episode 557): GAPS Diet Creator Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride Uses Nutrition To Heal Gut Health (mp3)
The LLVLC Show (Episode 558): Matt And Stacy From ‘Paleo Parents’ Encourage Kids To ‘Eat Like A Dinosaur’ (mp3)

Guest Post by Dr. Stephen Gangemi: MovNat and Kids
7 MovNat Lessons from an Uncoordinated Stay-at-Home Mom

NPR: Cameras Follow World's Greatest Sushi Chef

CMT: Sierra Hull, "Easy Come, Easy Go"

Get More: http://www.cmt.com/videos/misc/733739/live-cmt-sierra-hull-easy-come-easy-go.jhtml, Sierra Hull, Sierra Hull Videos

See more from this live performance here:

http://www.cmt.com/videos/misc/733748/live-cmt-sierra-hull-best-buy.jhtml - Sierra Hull - Sierra Hull Videos

An Anonymous 4 Retrospective

BBC Four to broadcast Angelic Voices

Watch the New Josh Turner Video, 'Time Is Love' by Hunter Hauk

Why I Hate The 'Goldberg Variations'

Less turn and burn for special operators
SOCOM task force looks at dwell time, quality of life

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.)

Items of Interest, 4 November 2011

Clyde Wilson, A Little Rebellion

Patrick Buchanan, Arrivederci, Roma

Elinor Ostrom Outlines Best Strategies for Managing the Commons by Jay Walljasper (EB)

Helena Norberg-Hodge: The Economics of Happiness

As she analyzed the problem further, Norberg-Hodge realized that the basic problem was rooted in the fundamentals of Western economics. “What economics has become as a discipline is a really disgraceful set of myths that were essentially formulated at the time of slavery and colonialism,” she said. “One of the fundamentals that was set in stone was that it’s in everybody’s interests to specialize for export, instead of providing a range of things for their own region or their own people. These theories were put in place at the same time that very wealthy merchants and emerging industrialists were benefiting from turning entire diversified economies into monocultures that produced just cotton, gold or copper, as the whole world was sort of coming under this one umbrella from Europe.

The bolded part makes for a good sound bite, but is it a good history of the discipline? Or bad genealogy?

WWWTW:
Jeff Culbreath, The Social Credit Movement
Paul J. Cella, Monetarism has a conservative pedigree

Counterpunch:
Paul Craig Roberts, On Western Democracy
Andrew Cockburn, Assassination Blowback
Franklin Lamb, Libya’s Liberation Front Organizing in the Sahel
Ismael Hossein-Zadeh, Keynesian Myths and Illusions

The Grand Oligarchy Party:
Kelley Vlahos, No Party for Smart Men

Thomas Fleming, High-Tech Lynchings

OWS:
Occupy Wall Street: An Addendum

Rod Dreher, OWS: The liturgy of Moralistic Therapeutic Progressivism

Local Banking for Global Change
Move Your Money Project

David Walker, Solving the Nation's Deficit

Peak Oil:
New Dept. of Energy Priority-Setting Analysis Seriously Flawed

CNA military advisory board: cut US oil use 30% to reduce "grave national security risks"
Release, CNA (EB)

Transition Voice: Live blogging from ASPO-USA Conference

Dmitry Orlov on Fast Collapse & Alex Goldmark on Crowdfunding (EB) (mp3)

Virtus:
Jack Donovan, Is Masculinity a Matter of Money?

3GW:
Fabius Maximus, Attritionist Letter #10 – Commanders today are too busy to develop subordinates!

Catholic:
Insight Scoop: "It’s not often that a historical novel comes along that is ...

Researcher thinks Pius XII went undercover to save Jews by David Kerr

MoJ: Coptic Christian student beaten to death, by teacher and classmates, in school

Diet and Health:
Does High Circulating Insulin Drive Body Fat Accumulation? Answers from Genetically Modified Mice


Music:
Two from Stift Heiligenkreuz, the second a commercial for their new CD:



(Spem in Alium Productions)

David Ianni

I don't understand why they thought the piano accompaniment was necessary. Trying to be different?

David Walker on the Obama jobs plan

pdf

Other responses:


A panel which includes Jim Antle.


Why infrastructure spending won't work: A "progressive" perspective by Erik Lindberg (EB)

Related:
The American Respublica project is coming. (via FPR)
Who’s Building the Do-It-Ourselves Economy?
Kevin Carson, Move Over, Lawrence O’Donnell

David Walker on Andrea Mitchell Reports

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

David Walker Responds to Obama's Budget Proposal

White House: Budget Overview

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Fox News Insider:


Press Release from the Comeback America Initiative.

David Walker on Obama's SOTU

pdf

CNBC:

No Labels

The Emily Rooney Show: Monday, Jan. 24 State Of The (Partisan) Union

David Walker's bi-partisan (non-partisan?) organization is No Labels.
C-SPAN: No Labels Conference, Closing Speeches.

David Walker: The Greece Crisis Is Coming To America In 2012

(via FTW)

From October 2008: David M. Walker, Call this a crisis? Just wait
Actually, don't wait, because we've got to stop a bigger economic disaster in the making: 78 million baby-boomers eligible for Social Security and Medicare.

WSJ--John Fund Interviews David Walker: Warning: The Deficits Are Coming!
The former head of the Government Accountability Office is on a crusade to alert taxpayers to their true obligations.

Despite an occasional detour into support for government intervention, Mr. Walker remains the Jeffersonian he grew up as in his native Virginia. "I view the Constitution with deep respect," he told me. "My ancestors and those of my wife fought and died in the Revolution, and I care a lot about returning us to the principles of the Founding Fathers."

He notes that today the role of the federal government has grown such that last year less than 40% of it related to the key roles the Founders envisioned for it: defense, foreign policy, the courts and other basic functions. "What happened to the Founders' intent that all roles not expressly reserved to the federal government belong to the states, and ultimately the people?" he asks. "I'm pleased the recent town halls show people are waking up and realizing it's time to pay attention to first principles."

With that we parted, as he had to get back to work. Today's Paul Revere is hard at work on a book due out in January from Random House that will be called, "Come Back America."

The book; audiobook.

The Fiscal Wake Up Tour


U.S. GAO - Fiscal Wake-up Tour
The Heritage Foundation: Fiscal Wake-Up Tour

What has David Walker been doing since resigning as Comptroller General?

Paul B. Farrell, If we are Rome, Wall Street's our Coliseum

PAUL B. FARRELL
If we are Rome, Wall Street's our Coliseum
Comptroller General warns (again), we're 'bankrupting America'

More from David M. Walker

the Comptroller General of the United States

The following are all PDF files:

Fiscal Facts and Keeping America Great, The John Hazen White Lecture at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, March 15, 2007, GAO-07-648CG

America’s Fiscal Future: A Call for Citizen Involvement, The Flory Public Policy Lecture, McPherson College, McPherson, Kansas, March 11, 2007, GAO-07-613CG

Saving Our Future Requires Tough Choices Today, Fiscal Wake-Up Tour, Cincinnati, Ohio, March 9, 2007, GAO-07-624CG

Saving Our Future Requires Tough Choices Today, Fiscal Wake-Up Tour, The Citadel School of Business Administration, Charleston, South Carolina, March 6, 2007, GAO-07-602CG

Fiscal and Health Care Challenges, Federation of American Hospitals' Annual Public Policy Conference, Washington, D.C., March 5, 2007, GAO-07-577CG

Medicare: Taking Care of Your Future?, Pepper Institute, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, February 22, 2007, GAO-07-526CG

more here

Comptroller Says Medicare Program Endangers Financial Stability

U.S. Heading For Financial Trouble?
Comptroller Says Medicare Program Endangers Financial Stability

America's Red Ink

The Office of the Comptroller General
wiki for David M. Walker

an older article: Comptroller Says Medicare Program Endangers Financial Stability