Curt Doolittle

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  • HAIDT’S PERSPECTIVE ON AMERICAN DIVISIVENESS **I love that man. Really.** I inte

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/01/07/the-top-10-reasons-american-politics-are-worse-than-ever/JOHNATHAN HAIDT’S PERSPECTIVE ON AMERICAN DIVISIVENESS

    **I love that man. Really.** I interpret the data completely differently.

    That difference is because I was there as a very young participant when we made the conservative strategic decision in the 1970’s to produce the conflict that we have today.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-20 23:21:00 UTC

  • THE CATHOLICS DID TREMENDOUS DAMAGE —“Ted Kennedy’s ’65 immigration act was “s

    THE CATHOLICS DID TREMENDOUS DAMAGE

    —“Ted Kennedy’s ’65 immigration act was “specifically designed to change the demographics of this country. When it went through, as with Obamacare, surrounded with lies, a miasma of lies: ‘this will not change the demographic of America; we’ll get basically the same people we’ve always gotten.’” But, instead, Coulter asserted, this act “was specifically designed to bring in peasant cultures who would remain poor for generations, remain on government support, so that you would have a solid block of Democratic voters, and it worked.”… “Obama never would have been elected. …. Romney would have won a bigger landslide than Reagan did against Carter in 1980.”— ibid

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-19 06:16:00 UTC

  • REQUIRES MORAL INCENTIVE : VIOLENCE IS MORAL PERSUASION —“Across practices, ac

    http://aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/people-do-violence-because-their-moral-codes-demand-it/VIOLENCE REQUIRES MORAL INCENTIVE : VIOLENCE IS MORAL PERSUASION

    —“Across practices, across cultures, and throughout historical periods, when people support and engage in violence, their primary motivations are moral. By ‘moral’, I mean that people are violent because they feel they must be; because they feel that their violence is obligatory. They know that they are harming fully human beings. Nonetheless, they believe they should. Violence does not stem from a psychopathic lack of morality. Quite the reverse: it comes from the exercise of perceived moral rights and obligations.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-18 23:34:00 UTC

  • What I don’t like myself, about american truth telling. —“The U.S. and Finland

    What I don’t like myself, about american truth telling.

    —“The U.S. and Finland both lean heavily towards the truth and directness, but what constitutes truth and directness varies greatly across cultures. Whereas Americans are comfortable taking liberty with the truth when it comes to marketing, selling and getting the business, to a Finn it can sound like lies. You see, the Finns believe that their words are their commitments. They establish their credibility by understating their abilities, and delivering what they promise. Period.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-18 16:23:00 UTC

  • among major powers, the United States has not professionalized its diplomacy” wi

    http://www.xenosystems.net/quote-note-169/—“Alone among major powers, the United States has not professionalized its diplomacy” with disastrous consequences,—

    Fukuyama agrees.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-18 11:21:00 UTC

  • “Since 2010, the Associated Press recently reported, the number of abortions nat

    —“Since 2010, the Associated Press recently reported, the number of abortions nationwide has decreased by about 12 percent. This decline has been happening, slowly and steadily, for a quarter of a century: Since 1990, the rate of abortions has fallen by more than a third, and the raw number of abortions has fallen by more than half.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-17 11:11:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://www.prageruniversity.com/Political-Science/Why-Do-People-Become-Islamic-Extremists.htmlhttp://www.prageruniversity.com/Political-Science/Why-Do-People-Become-Islamic-Extremists.html

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-16 15:40:00 UTC

  • Sigh. –“Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children’s

    Sigh.

    –“Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children’s books by Hugh Lofting starting with the 1920 The Story of Doctor Dolittle. He is a doctor who shuns human patients in favour of animals, with whom he can speak in their own languages. He later becomes a naturalist, using his abilities to speak with animals to better understand nature and the history of the world.

    Doctor Dolittle first appeared in the author’s illustrated letters to children, written from the trenches during World War I when actual news, he later said, was either too horrible or too dull. The stories are set in early Victorian England, where Doctor John Dolittle lives in the fictional English village of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh in the West Country”–

    ( The source of many fights in grade school. )

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-16 07:14:00 UTC

  • (LIBERTARIAN) CONSTITUTION WRITTEN BY A PRODIGY IN CHILDHOOD

    http://www.sidis.net/hesperia.htmAWESOME (LIBERTARIAN) CONSTITUTION WRITTEN BY A PRODIGY IN CHILDHOOD

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-15 09:31:00 UTC

  • (The Real Kind: European) in 1912

    http://www.amazon.com/Liberty-Great-Libertarians-Anthology-Handbook/dp/B008X7OXFALibertarianism (The Real Kind: European) in 1912.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-15 09:26:00 UTC