Sardonic Ex Curia: June 2012

A question some readers may be asking is: "How do you select different items to appear on this blog?" Being a new blog, that is an ongoing adjustment at this point. Although I read a variety of sources in different genres (e.g, philosophy, theology, political, literary, etc.), I try and focus my links around the political, philosophical, and literary, and usually conservative and Federalist. I want to avoid too much duplication of what may be found at other sites. The Pulpit, for instance, does an excellent job of Catholic and related discussion. I am sure my selection criteria will change slightly as I refine my approach, but I do not plan to stray too far from what I have set forth here.

Sean Trende’s Realignment of Electoral Analysis - Liberty Law Blog (Lynch)

Rights in Islam - The Imaginative Conservative (Caldecott)

In Search of the City on a Hill - The Imaginative Conservative (Gamble)

Toward a New Form of Laissez-Faire - Liberty Law Blog (McAllister)

Gallup Editors: Americans' Views on the Healthcare Law - Gallup (Newport, Jones, Saad)

Death by Degrees - n+1

June 21, 2012

June 21, 2012 (PM Edition)

On Begging the Question - Maverick Philosopher (Vallicella)

Purpose and Liberty - Public Discourse (Sosa)

What’s Truth Got to Do with It? - Mirror of Justice (Araujo)

June 21, 2012 (AM Edition)

Fortnight For Freedom Day 1: Freedom is Not Just a Big Word- The American Catholic (McClary)

Landscape with Flagons - The Imaginative Conservative (Good)

Dithering Europe is heading for the democratic dark ages - The Telegraph (Boris Johnson)

In Praise of Obama's New Immigration Policy - The Volokh Conspiracy (Somin)

Ilya Somin on the President's Power to Not Enforce the Law - Originalism Blog (Ramsey)

Flip-Flops on Executive Privilege - The Volokh Conspiracy (Adler)

Executive Privileges - The Monkey Cage (Rudalevige)

Can Barack Obama Rewrite Federal Law? - Reason (Napolitano)

Quote for the Day - John C. Wright's Journal (Wright)

June 20, 2012

June 20, 2012 (PM Edition)

Mass Media and Spiritual Deterioration - The Maverick Philosopher (Vallicella)

Is President Obama’s assertion of executive privilege valid? - The Volokh Conspiracy (Kopel)

Right to Keep and Bear Arms Includes Knives - The Volokh Conspiracy (Volokh)

Mitch Daniels Will Be the Next President - Pileus Blog (Grover Cleveland)

Sertillanges on Reading - The Maverick Philosopher (Vallicella)

The Newest Front in the Battle over Marriage - Public Discourse (Linton)

And now for some real news, fans of science! - John C. Wright's Journal (Wright)

An Alternative to Sprawl - Front Porch Republic (Mitchell)

Are the Laws of Logic Empirical Generalizations? - Maverick Philosopher (Vallicella)

Milton Praises the Strenuous Life - Maverick Philosopher (Vallicella)

June 20, 2012 (AM Edition)

Beginning with this post, I have begun placing the author's name in parentheses after the blog title. Originally, I was planning to leave the name and simply put the blog. My reasoning was that the ideas were more important, and I did not want people singling out posts to avoid because of the name of an author. My reason for change is two-fold: first, I wanted to give credit where credit is due, and that means the name of the individual writing the post, rather than simply the blog, and second, I realized that with multiple posts from the same blog appearing daily, and with posts replying to earlier posts from the same blog, adding the author's last name could help to avoid confusion. The only time a last name will not appear is when a post is anonymous, "by the editors", or the like.

Regulating Political Speech - Real Clear Politics (Stossel)

The Par Tester Chronicles 1: Front Porcher Polet’s Undisputed Techno-Victory - Front Porch Republic (Peters)

Doing Well by Doing Well - The Imaginative Conservative (Domitrovic)

How Much Does the Individual Mandate Case Matter? - Volokh Conspiracy (Somin)

Religious Freedom Under Siege: The Bishops Respond - Public Discourse (Franck and Simon)

Religion and the Constitution - The Imaginative Conservative (Baldacchino)

Ninth Circuit Struggles with Suspicionless Laptop Searches at U.S. Border - FedSocBlog (Shubow)

Obama invokes Executive Privilege after long stall by Holder - Legal Insurrection (Jacobson)

June 19, 2012

June 19, 2012 (PM Edition)

HHS, Immigration, and the Estuary - NCR

The President's Move on Immigration - Mirror of Justice (reply to HHS, Immigration, and the Estuary)

Garnett on Immigration Reform - NCR (Reply to Mirror of Justice)

21 Killed in Attacks on Churches in Nigeria - The Volokh Conspiracy

Gerson on "culture wars," pluralism, and religious freedom - Mirror of Justice

Confusion About Discrimination - Public Discourse

Sleeping Through the Night - NCR

Democrats for Life Comment on the Contraception Mandate - Mirror of Justice

Widely-Read or Well-Read - Maverick Philospher

June 19, 2012 (AM Edition)

Beauty in Exile - The Imaginative Conservative

The Unmaking and Making of Community - Front Porch Republic

Book Review - Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics - The American Catholic

Scalia and Wickard: Not Unexpected - The Volokh Conspiracy

Lies and God - The Public Discourse

Blogger exposes MSNBC video fraud (while eating Cheetos) - Legal Insurrection

June 18, 2012

June 18, 2012 (PM Edition)

Please RT - n+1

Orthodox Arts Journal Launched!

Mayor Bloomberg on the Purpose of Government - Maverick Philosopher

Equal Participation for Muslim Schools, Oh My! - The Volokh Conspiracy

June 18, 2012 (AM Edition)

Sen. McConnell Claims Democrats Are Trying to Silence Their Opponents - FedSoc Blog

Scalia and Garner: The Interpretation of Legal Texts - The Originalism Blog

Lies and Truth - Public Discourse

Most Underrated of all the Founders: John Dickinson - The Imaginative Conservative

The Seen and Unseen in Our Social Liberation - Library of Law and Liberty

The Purgatorial Emporium - The Imaginative Conservative

President Obama's Predator Drones - The Mirror of Justice

I Met a 16-Year-Old Kid. 3 Days Later Obama Killed Him - AlterNet

June 17, 2012

Sunday, June 17, 2012 (Happy Father's Day!)

20 of my Dadisms - The American Catholic

Update on Mia B. Love's Utah Congressional Bid - Legal Insurrection

Kleinfeld on Method in Criminal Law Theory - Mirror of Justice

Philosophy of nature and philosophy of [fill in the blank] - Edward Feser

The Legacy of Bernard Lewis - Liberty Law Blog

The Search for Wisdom in Education - The Imaginative Conservative

Executive Overreach: John Yoo - The Originalism Blog

June 16, 2012

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Popcorn Too? Food Fascists Gone Wild - The Maverick Philosopher

A Dose of John Garvey - Mirror of Justice

D.C. Circuit to Hear Dispute Over Drones and Targeted Killings in September - FedSoc Blog

No, Let's Not Admit We're All Cafeteria Catholics - Acts of the Apostasy

Politics and the New Dark Age - The Imaginative Conservative

The Kids Aren’t All Right: New Family Structures and the “No Differences” Claim - Public Discourse

Supreme Court Take Notice: Two Sociologists Shift the Ground of the Marriage Debate - Public Discourse

What’s a Constitution Between Friends? - TaC

A New Beginning

Welcome to Sardonic Ex Curia! The purpose of this blog is simple - provide a series of daily links to intelligent conservative, Federalist, or Catholic web content. Most of it will be from true blogs, although some of it may be links to good reprints, journal articles, and other web flotsam. I am modeling this on the Catholic blog the "Pulp.It". Go check them out sometime as well!

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