Tuesday Links

First, a new website called “Alternative Right,” which Steve Sailer describes as “flashy,” and DuelingBarstools Pugilist in Chief Pila derides as elitist.  They’re both right.  The website is well done, and its self description is arguably snooty: “an online magazine of radical traditionalism. As such, it marks an attempt to forge a new intellectual right-wing that is independent and outside the “conservative” establishment.”   I suppose the implication is that the current conservative establishment is partisan and unintelligent.  I cannot disagree with that statement.

I’m gonna give Alt-Right a bit more time, if for no other reason than the intelligent right needs forum for urban, educated elitist snobs as well as more practical individuals such as Pila, Instapunk, theDialecticalPlayer, and Goodshit.  Another reason to give Alt-Right a chance is that they have a blog dedicated to Human Biodiversity (an uncomfortable reality to which our policy makers are intentionally oblivious – to our detriment) and some interesting commentary, such as this post on Robert A. Taft.

Next, On Reading Hayek: LL&L and the new statement of liberal principles of justice and political economy.

Everything by Michael Yon and Michael Totten.

At the Beacon Blog, Mitt Romney willingly makes himself cannon fodder:

Good ole Mitt “has urged the Tea Party leaders not to be quite so independent minded”, cautioning them not to mount direct electoral challenges outside the GOP establishment. I guess Romney will be running for President on the Anti-Change platform, against Obama’s “Really, I mean it this time Change” platform. Decisions, decisions.

Emphasis added, as well as hearty laughter.

Instapunk analyzes Jesus Television.

Von Mises remembers James Madison, the father of the Constitution, on his birthday.  Read the whole thing, it includes some rich, and timely, Madison quotes.

James Madison, coauthor of the Federalist Papers, defender of the Constitution before the Virginia ratifying convention, and sponsor of the Bill of Rights in the House of Representatives, was the preeminent interpreter of the Constitution for 50 years. He left no doubt that its role was to clearly enumerate the limited powers given to the federal government and to defend Americans from “the first experiment on our liberties” by its hand.

Half Sigma has a way with words. Here’s his one sentence lede for an article that made the blog-rounds last week, basically reporting that the president of the Detroit School Board is nearly illiterate.

The president of the Detroit school board is shockingly stupid.

Oh, and since I like cabs, here’s Half Sigma on Cab Drivers who cheat.

Joe Rogan’s guest blog on GQ, a magazine I unsubscribed from during the 2008 election season.  Joe is tackling the issue of how we will all die . . .

It’s everywhere you look online; from the collapse of the dollar, to terrorism, to the reports of thousands of earth quakes occurring in Yellowstone National Park threatening to ignite the 600 kilometer wide super- volcano that erupts every 600,000 to 800,000 years and kills almost everything on the continent.

Last time that happened? 600,000 years ago.

Everywhere you look it’s asteroids, and paranoids, and BAD AIDS. Just as a social engineering tool the internet porn is an incredibly important factor in keeping people docile. People argue that porn creates violence, but I usually think it’s because unlike me, they’ve probably never run into someone desperately searching for something to jerk off too. You don’t want to see that, trust me.

The biggest and most popular meme of doom online without a doubt is the end of the world date of December 21st, 2012. There are thousands of websites dedicated to it, as well as hundreds of books, and even one really retarded blockbuster movie. It wasn’t even really a movie as much as it was a bunch of people randomly talking inserted into a showcase of modern computer technology creating insane fake disaster scenes

And finally, Reason TV that is always good for you:

And Part II:

Socio-Political, TV