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In today’s entry:  Introduction to Found On The Hunt, excellent commentary on morality and government by Alan Keyes, airport security myths, what you need to know about The Humane Society, the dangers of sustainable development

I’m trying a new experiment today.  If you follow me you know that I’m a news hound.  With any time I can spare I amd reading an overabundance of RSS feeds, trying to stay current on everything that’s happening in the world.  When I find something particularly interesting or relevant to current issues I like to share it.  Primarily I do this by posting to Facebook, but not everyone is on Facebook or takes the time to check it.  My Twitter account, which has always been more of a conduit to Facebook anyway, doesn’t get these links.  I don’t like not being able to post enough info with the link so that someone would know what they’re clicking on either, so I don’t post the links through Twitter.  Using my Facebook links as an RSS feed back to the blog page is the best compromise I’ve found so far, but again you don’t get summaries.

So today I came up with another idea.  I will post all the day’s links in one blog entry.  That way I’m not cluttering up the blog with multiple entries that are often no more than a link with descriptive text.  I can put a summary up at the top with attention grabbers.  Hopefully this will work out and keep the blog more active.

Why moral truce means the end of liberty

When James Madison (whom many of his contemporaries called the “Father of
the Constitution”) says that justice is the end of government, he
declares his adherence to an understanding of politics that eschews mere
expediency. It embodies the commitment to do what is right. In this he,
and the American founders he represents, differ in principle from
present-day politicians and political theorists. They articulate and act
on the premise that the end of government is to consolidate and
exercise power, defined as whatever it takes to command, manipulate and
control people. Even those who talk of liberty do so in terms that make
it indistinguishable from the individual aggregation and exercise of
power.

Eight Air-Security Myths – John C. Wohlstetter – National Review Online

Two solid analysts, ex–Bush 43 speechwriter Marc Thiessen and Hudson Institute intelligence scholar Gabriel Schoenfeld, have published defenses of the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) controversial new scanning and patdown policies. They argue that TSA’s policy is a necessary reaction to the evolution of terrorism. Their analysis rests on eight air-security myths.

The Humane Society of the United States is not what you think | Washington Examiner

If you donate to the Humane Society of the United States for supporting the homeless doggies and kitties in your local animal shelter, you’ve likely been suckered by one of Big Green’s most notorious propaganda mills.

The Conservative Blind Spot

There is a blind spot in the main stream Conservative movement that threatens everything the movement says it stands for. The blind spot is refusal to acknowledge the threat of Sustainable Development, the policy of the UN’s Agenda 21 that now permeates into every American city. Somehow, the Conservative leaders who have always been there to fight off such utopian, socialist nightmares now seem to slumber blissfully in their ignorance at the very moment when vigilance is most urgently needed.