Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:
Freedom requires virtue, which requires faith ~ Eric Metaxas explains why a society can’t be truly free without faith.
“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”
~ Daniel Webster
U.S. fertility plummets to record low ~ Study finds fewer teen pregnancies and women waiting longer to have children. Hey, no problem though. We’ve got record numbers of illegals flooding across our southern border to make up for the deficit in native births…
CBS: Illegals Entering US Triple With Talk of Immigration Reform
Which was only predictable since ~
White House Policies Invite More Illegal Immigration
Yet Washington D.C. couldn’t care less. Even with this looming crisis ~
Report: Texas Border Patrol on the brink of collapse ~ Fox News video. Megan Kelly interviews Dennis Michael Lynch.
Of course, when native-born college students are this historically ignorant ~ ‘The South Won the Civil War?’ Beach Babes Bomb Watters’ World Memorial Day Quiz ~ we’re doomed anyway.
The “You-Didn’t-Do-That” Society ~ Daniel Greenfield critiques the multimedia blame game surrounding the Isla Vista killings ~
Expanding an individual act into a social problem manufactures a collective responsibility. The scapegoats are people who had nothing to do with what happened. The killer’s family has successfully shifted responsibility to people who live a thousand miles away and never even knew their son existed [..]
A society that makes excuses for monsters becomes an amoral cesspool where no one is responsible for anything because everyone is responsible for everything.
How Britain Calculates Its Hooker “GDP Boost” ~ For the purposes of the Office for National Statistics, GDP calculatons will now include “contributions” made by pushers and hookers. It’s all amount the money now. Too bad nobody’s bothering to calculate the cost of social breakdown as measured by human suffering.
Boycott “How to Train Your Dragon 2” As Kiddie Character Comes Out Gay ~ LGBT radicals are now aiming their propaganda directly at kids.
Doctor Voino-Yasenetsky Saint Luka Train ~ Intriguing photo-story about a uniquely Russian train which travels annually to distant settlements in the Krasnoyarsk and Khakassia regions of Siberia.
