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…On this day in 1873 Congress passed the Comstock Law which made it illegal to send obscene material through the US mail. That began the long and tortuous path to define what obscene meant. The federal obscenity laws were finally repealed in the 70s.…
A TV crew for the Australian program “60 Minutes” was attacked by culture-enrichers in Rinkeby, a suburb of Stockholm. The Australians were visiting Rinkeby to investigate the subject of immigration into Sweden, and the residents of Rinkeby — most of whom have a “migration background” — took exception to what the outsiders were doing, and attacked them. They ran over the foot of a cameraman with a vehicle, but he was not seriously injured.
In other news, a Christian student at Sheffield University in England was expelled for posting a message on Facebook opposing gay marriage.…
Let’s remember him this Super Tuesday particularly as he would have so wanted to be around to see Obama booted and a conservative Republican taking his place.…
…On this day in 1781 the Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation. They proved to be too week for the US and were later scrapped for the Constitution. …
The well-known American chanteuse Madonna may be banned from the Philippines for draping herself in the country’s flag at a show in Manila last week. It is against Philippine law to use the national flag as an article of clothing. Violators may receive up to a year in jail.
In other news, a female police officer was shot and killed in Prince William County, Virginia, while answering a call about a domestic dispute during her first day on the job. Two of her fellow officers were seriously wounded. The suspected perpetrator had already killed his wife before police arrived at his house.…
…Today is a leap day. Leap days occur in years that are divisible by 4. It is added to Feb because under the old Roman calendar February was the last month of the year and they added days to the calendar during that month. …
Republicans woo “sagebrush rebels” in Nevada…
Newt Gingrich to Fox News: You created Trump…
The Belgian government is planning to establish “refugee” quotas for cities and towns. Belgian municipalities that fail to take in their designated allotments will be fined €75 per migrant per day.
In other news, two Christian women in Pakistan were abducted, forcibly converted to Islam, and then married off to their Muslim kidnappers.…
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven says that his government is bracing for chaos when the next wave of “refugees” arrive. Sweden is preparing a new backup plan, but the EU is not cooperating — making future chaos that much more likely.
In other news, Chris Christie, a former presidential candidate and current governor of New Jersey, has endorsed Donald Trump for president.…
Austria convened a summit yesterday in Vienna on migration via the “Balkan Route”. The other countries participating in the confab were Slovenia, Croatia, Bulgaria, Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro. Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner and Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz were the principal speakers. Greece was not invited. In response to the snub, Greece withdrew its ambassador from Vienna.
In other news, German media are reporting that the government expects that 3.6 million “refugees” will have entered Germany by the year 2020.…
…this isn’t a gargantuan illustrated edition, but it’s a very good one (and, for those who care, has a large selection of great pro-Israel stuff):…
Husein Kavazovic, the Grand Mufti of Bosnia, has called on the authorities to do something about radical Islamic terrorism. Mr. Kavazovic issued the call after he was threatened with death by the Islamic State for opposing Islamic extremism.
In other news, Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, acknowledged that he has a dispute with Austria over the latter’s new policy of capping the number of migrants that enter the country. Meanwhile Matteo Salvini, the leader of the Lega Nord, says that neither the European Commission nor Mr. Juncker are welcome in Italy. …
Work and family meant no debate for me. Anyway, I’m sick of a debate format that has candidates snarling like dogs at each other and at the moderators without actually providing useful information. In this post, I hope to provide some useful information.…
…Today will be cut short because I have a doctor's appointment early this morning. Also, I am going to do something a little different with the "day in history" thing. I am going to use the same one from last year and you will see why.…
A 14-year-old girl carrying two knives went on a stabbing rampage in a Toronto high school, wounding eight people. The alleged suspected perpetrator is now in custody. Victims were apparently selected at random, and no motive has been established, but the attacker reportedly wore a long black coat, and was known to change her first name frequently.
In other news, the Slovenian parliament has approved the use of army troops to supplement the border police and help protect the country’s borders.…
The Finnish movement “Soldiers of Odin” has spread to Norway, where a group by that name is now patrolling the streets to protect native Norwegians against immigrant violence.
In other Norwegian news, Prime Minister Erna Solberg warns that Norway will have to abandon international law if the political order in Sweden collapses. Any mass influx of refugees across the border from Sweden will cause Norway to withdraw from the Schengen Agreement and the Geneva Convention, and all migrants coming from Sweden will be deported without being allowed to apply for asylum.…
…No matter how careful I think I am entering data over the year, I always discover so many mistakes when it’s time to make the report for her. Sigh. Anyway, it’s round-up time…
… On this day in 1836 Samuel Colt was granted a patent for the Colt revolver. The ironic thing about that was he made a rifle first before his first revolver.…
…On this day in 1917 U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom, Walter Hines Page, was given the Zimmermann Telegram. This telegram was instrumental in getting the US into WWI.…
Note to Blog-Heap reader(s), if any: Had a bunch of links ready to add last night, but lost my Internet connection, so I'll be getting to them today.
…On this day in 1455 the Gutenberg Bible was published; the first book printed with movable type.…
Happy Birthday, President Washington! Although much has changed since your time, we still have free speech, which I’m celebrating today with this illustrated round-up (and many thanks to Caped Crusader and Earl Aagaard for their contributions)…
A Hindu priest in Bangladesh was attacked and beheaded in his home, which is also the Hindu temple. Two other victims were reportedly wounded. Although the group responsible for the attack is not known, officials are certain that the incident had nothing to do with Islam.
In other news, 3,000 protesters gathered to protest the establishment of a refugee center near Kranja in Slovenia, fifteen miles north of the capital Ljubljana.…
A 12-year-old migrant boy in a Swedish asylum center was repeatedly raped by two full-grown men who had lied about their age — they said they were 15 — and were assigned to share a room with the unfortunate boy. Grown “refugee” men who pretend to be children are becoming increasingly common in Europe, since children get better benefits and are less likely to be deported than adult migrants.
In other news, the Italian birth rate in 2015 was the lowest annual rate that has been recorded since the unification of Italy in 1861.…
A suicide attack on a market in northeastern Cameroon killed nineteen people. A pair of female suicide bombers carried out the attack, which wounded an undetermined number of people. No group has claimed responsibility for the deed, but the Islamic activists of Boko Haram are the primary suspects.
In other news, the Greek government says that it wants other European countries to keep their borders open to migrants, or it will refuse to sign off to an accord designed to help keep Britain in the EU.…
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