Blog Heap of Links for the day 27 February 2015

…The IRS belatedly told Congress it may have lost some of Ms. Lerner’s emails after her computer crashed, and asserted that the backup tapes didn’t exist.

But under questioning from Mr. Chaffetz, Mr. Camus said it took him only two weeks to track down the backup tapes, and when he asked the IRS depository for them, the workers there said they’d never been contacted by the agency itself. …

"…Once considered a potential successor to Russia’s first post-Soviet president, Boris Yeltsin, Nemstov became an opposition politician and fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin.…"

"The Oklahoma House of Representatives passed a bill Tuesday that would eliminate income tax for five years for people moving from out of state to 25 rural Oklahoma counties, including Nowata County."

"You may be under the impression that the Wild West ended in the early 1900s. You'd be wrong, according to former rodeo cowboy and lifetime Bartlesville resident, Al Jay Kester. During a recent interview, Kester talked about what it was like in Bartlesville during the 1950s."

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…I routinely encountered women who were in her situation or, if younger than her, were clearly at risk of someday being in her situation. They kept wasting time in “relationships” with men who refused to close the deal. These romantic involvements would last anywhere from a few months to several years, and it was always — always — the guy’s aversion to a permanent commitment that prevented these relationships from becoming marriages. The real problem, it seems to me, is not merely the widespread phenomenon of “Peter Pan Syndrome,” but that (a) young women unwittingly enable such male immaturity because (b) they miscalculate the economics of love, and therefore (c) they waste one of a woman’s most valuable resources, her youth.…

[Feb 2]

…Duranord Veillard will turn 108 on Saturday while his wife of 82 years, Jeanne, turns 105 in May.

The couple plan to celebrate a milestone few others will see with family, friends and well-wishers at their home, where they live with a daughter, Marie Eveillard. …

Veillard also let The Journal News in on his secret for living a long and healthy life: "That's God," he said in French Creole.…

Before throwing the snowball, Inhofe said, "In case we have forgotten, because we keep hearing that 2014 has been the warmest year on record, I ask the chair, 'You know what this is?' It's a snowball. Just from outside here. So it's very, very cold out, very unseasonal. So here Mr. President, catch this."

[Video, 0:36, CSpan on YouTube]

"A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP"

The last tweet of Leonard Nimoy, dead at 83.

Nice post about him on Legal Insurrection.

Vic shares his news links and thoughts about them for today, late on the Overnight Thread

"On this day in 380 the Edict of Thessalonica was declared by Emperor Theodosius I, with co-emperors Gratian and Valentinian II. They declared their wish that all Roman citizens convert to trinitarian Christianity."