Blog Heap of Links for the day 13 March 2009

One day after signing the $410 billion omnibus funding bill into law, along with provisions ending the Department of Transportation's Mexican truck demonstration project, the Obama administration has announced intentions to restart the program as soon as possible. [Of course!]

The Senate is gearing up to ratify a Nixon-era U.N. treaty meant to create universal laws to govern the seas -- a treaty critics say will create a massive U.N. bureaucracy that could even claim powers over American waterways.

Ten children at a day care center drank windshield wiper fluid after a staffer served it from a container mistaken for Kool-Aid and placed in a refrigerator, ... Doctors estimate the children, ages 2 to 7, drank about an ounce of the blue fluid ... Only one child remained hospitalized Friday morning, after blood samples showed "measurable levels" of methanol,...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — An unemployed truck driver seething over liberalism told police he opened fire in a church last year because it harbored gays and multiracial families and he hoped others would follow his example.

Three Ochelata residents are being held on bonds ranging from $1,000 to a quarter of a million dollars after their arrests for drugs and related resisting arrest charges

The near-hit of space junk Thursday was a warning fired shot across the bow of the international space station, experts said. There's likely more to come in the future.