Blog Heap of Links for the day 28 April 2012
Theory of Education
the school administrators, through Social Justice Week, gave a platform to community organizers who in turn provided students biased information and encouraged them to take specific steps to protest.... When we heard about the week, we contacted school officials requesting to observe and record the events. All parties consented. [video]
Political Theater
Only Pelosi could put together a floor speech on how gas subsidies are an assault on women. [Video]
Biden: “I guess what I’m trying to say without boring you too long at breakfast – and you all look dull as hell, I might add. The dullest audience I have ever spoken to. Just sitting there, staring at me. Pretend you like me!” he said according to the pool report.
Four days ago, Andrew Breitbart — who had vowed his release of Obama’s college videos would change the 2012 elections — suddenly died, after he collapsed while “walking near his home” in southern California. His media organization Breitbart.com says it’s from “natural causes,” although the L.A. coroner’s office hasn’t even completed an autopsy. ... Comic actor and impersonator Steve Bridges, known for his impressions of U.S. presidents, especially — with the help of prosthetics — of Barack Obama, was found dead at his Los Angeles home on Saturday. It is believed Bridges died of natural causes. An autopsy is scheduled, but the Los Angeles County coroner’s office said foul play was not suspected.
Transport Whoops!
At around four o’clock they decided to move from the playhouse to the side yard 200 yards away. It was a decision that kept them from becoming the first Americans killed by a nuclear weapon released on U.S. territory. Minutes later the woods behind the playhouse were destroyed by a nuclear bomb. [Sort-of]
Humans can be Dangerous
...female scooter rider killed a man by squeezing his testicles for the packing dispute, in Haikou City, Hainan Province...
While Rome Burns
The Secret Service is having a party with hookers...
Animal Companions
The 52-year-old blind victim said she was threatened before being choked and falling down a flight of stairs. Officers said that after witnessing the assault, the woman’s seeing-eye dog fought off the attacker. She told them that once the home was secure, the dog used a specially manufactured device to phone police and alert them.
Animals
A black bear that had wandered around the campus of the University of Colorado was tranquilised by wildlife officials before dropping with a thud onto a heavy mattress. [Video]
Defending Ourselves
A citizen with a gun stopped a knife wielding man as he began stabbing people Thursday evening at the downtown Salt Lake City Smith's store. ... [Knife-weilder] just started stabbing people and yelling you killed my people. You killed my people." ...
Opposing Tyranny
The Department of Labor (DOL) has apparently heard the voice of the American farmer (and the American people) and backed off its plan to restrict or severely limit family members under the age of 16 from working on family farms.
US Election 2012
It’s pretty clear by now that any 6 year-old would have ordered the hit on Osama Bin Laden last year. Yet, it took Barack Obama hours, and possibly days, to give the military permission to pull off the attack. Now Barack Obama in a new web ad claims Mitt Romney wouldn’thave ordered Bin Laden raid.
Breitbart is Here
I was the proverbial wise-ass kid with a permanent seat in the rear of the classroom where I could safely heckle the nuns without collecting too many stripes across the back of my knuckles. Then, on September 11th, 2001, everything changed. ... Every day, I grew more disgusted by my cowardice. But the most intolerable aspect of living under a self-imposed gag order by far was the loneliness, alienation and isolation. Then I met Andrew Breitbart. ... We are in the middle of a War of Ideas. At stake is nothing less than the principles of inalienable rights and freedom upon which the United States was founded. And Andrew Breitbart is dead. ...