Class Warfare for Republicans. By Joel Kotkin.

Class Warfare for Republicans. By Joel Kotkin. New Geography, April 29, 2013. Also find it here.

The Triumph of Suburbia. By Joel Kotkin. JoelKotkin.com, April 29, 2013. Also find it here.

Megacities And The Density Delusion: Why More People Doesn’t Equal More Wealth. By Joel Kotkin. JoelKotkin.com, April 30, 2013.

Judge Jeanine Pirro Slams Jihad Mom.

Judge Jeanine Pirro Slams Jihad Mom: “Lady, You Shouldn’t Be Allowed Here.” Real Clear Politics, April 27, 2013. YouTube. The Right Scoop.

The Four Corners of Liberal Deceit. By Rush Limbaugh

The Four Corners of Liberal Deceit: Prominent Liberal Social Psychologist Made It All Up. by Rush Limbaugh. RushLimbaugh.com, April 29, 2013.

The Mind of a Con Man. By Yudhijit Bhattacharjee. New York Times, April 26, 2013.

Downton’s Class System—and Ours. By Tom Bethell.

Downton’s Class System—and Ours. By Tom Bethell. The American Spectator, May 2013.

Niall Ferguson to Paul Krugman: You’re Still Wrong About Government Spending.

Niall Ferguson to Paul Krugman: You’re Still Wrong About Government Spending. By Morgan Korn. The Daily Ticker, April 30, 2013.

The Story of Our Time. By Paul Krugman. New York Times, April 28, 2013.

The Rise and Decline of Nations and Civilizations. Video. Panel with Jared Diamond, Niall Ferguson, James Robinson, and William Bennett. Milken Institute, April 29, 2013. YouTube.

The Reactionary Republicans. By Jeffrey Lord.

The Reactionary Republicans. By Jeffrey Lord. The American Spectator, April 30, 2013. Print View.

Erica DePalo, Former N.J. Teacher, Avoids Prison on Sex Charge with 15-Year-Old.

Erica DePalo, 2011 Essex County, NJ Teacher of the Year, now a convicted sex offender.

Erica DePalo, former N.J. teacher, avoids prison on sex charge with 15-year-old. CBS News, April 30, 2013.

Former West Orange High School teacher, Erica DePalo, sentenced for having sex with student. News 12 New Jersey, April 29, 2013.

Former “Teacher of the Year” who admitted sex with her 15-year-old student gets just parole after revealing she is bi-polar. Daily Mail, April 29, 2013.

Erica DePalo with her Teacher of the Year award.

Former Essex County Teacher of the Year who admitted to sex with student receives parole. By Julia Terruso. New Jersey Star-Ledger, April 29, 2013.

Erica DePalo sentencing, a look at teacher-student sex case stats. By Julia Terruso. New Jersey Star-Ledger, April 29, 2013.

Former West Orange High School Teacher Erica DePalo Receives Parole; School Community Still Struggling. By Cynthia Cumming. The Alternative Press, April 29, 2013.

Erica DePalo at her sentencing as a sex offender.

New Jersey “Teacher Of  The Year” Arrested For Sexual Assault; Erica DePalo “Eccentric,” Student Says. By Steven Hoffer. The Huffington Post, September 5, 2012.

N.J. Teacher of the Year in 2011, Erica DePalo charged with having sexual relationship with 15 year-old student. By Dan Riehl. Riehl World News, September 5, 2012.

Former Teacher of the Year Accepts Plea in Teen Sex Case. By Craig McCarthy. West Orange Patch, February 19, 2013.

District: DePalo Should Have Faced Jail Time. By Craig McCarthy. West Orange Patch, February 19, 2013.

Erica DePalo Honored as Essex County Teacher of the Year. By Craig McCarthy. West Orange Patch, September 20, 2011.

Why Is There a Hookup Culture? By Dennis Prager.

Why Is There a Hookup Culture? By Dennis Prager. Real Clear Politics, April 30, 2013. Also find it here and here.

Give Monogamy a Chance. By Emily Esfahani Smith. Wall Street Journal, April 9, 2013.

A Lesson From Birmingham For the Arabs. By Rami G. Khouri.

A lesson from Birmingham for the Arabs. By Rami G. Khouri. The Daily Star (Lebanon), April 27, 2013.

Feeding the Pyramid Builders. By Noah Wiener.

An image of the OK (Old Kingdom) Corral with the Giza pyramids in the distance. Researchers note that it was large enough to hold 55 cattle with feeding pens. There may also have been areas for slaughter. CREDIT: AERA Inc.

Feeding the Pyramid Builders. By Noah Wiener. Bible History Daily, April 26, 2013.

Wiener:

It takes a lot to build a pyramid that will stand for 4,500 years. An estimated 10,000 workers built Menkaure’s pyramid at Giza. What did they eat?

Recent studies at the workers’ town Heit el-Ghurab suggest that the workers would have had access to sheep, goat and cattle meat on a regular basis. In fact, the diet was likely better than the average diet in Egyptian villages, and may have been an incentive to draw workers to the site. However, it was no easy feat to cater for 10,000 hungry workers. In a recent article in Livescience, Richard Redding, chief research officer at Ancient Egypt Research Associates, puts the food operation in perspective. The estimated herd of 21,900 cattle and 54,750 sheep required to regularly feed the Giza workers would have required 465 square miles of grazing, fallow, waste, built and agricultural land. While the Egyptians put a great deal of effort into feeding their workers, it wasn’t an open buffet; archaeological evidence points to a beef-rich diet for the overseers, while the general workers ate much more sheep and goat meat. Providing meat for the workers was a massive endeavor, even if an estimated half of the workers’ protein came from non-meat sources. These studies were done on workers’ settlements during the construction of Menkaure’s pyramid, the smallest of the three pyramids of Giza. What did Khufu have to do to feed the Great Pyramid’s workers?


Giza Secret Revealed: How 10,000 Pyramid Builders Got Fed. By Owen Jarus. LiveScience, April 23, 2013. Image Gallery.

Pyramids and Protein. By Richard Redding and Brian V. Hunt. AREA.

Egyptian Old Kingdom Patterns of Animal Use and the Value of Faunal Data in Modeling Socioeconomic Systems. By Richard W. Redding. Paléorient, Vol. 18, No. 2 (1992).

Think Again: European Decline. By Mark Leonard and Hans Kundnani.

Think Again: European Decline. By Mark Leonard and Hans Kundnani. Foreign Policy, May/June 2013.