Blog Heap of Links for the day 6 May 2015

Parishioners at St. Thomas More University parish in Norman, Oklahoma, were horrified Sunday when they discovered a shrine to Catholicism's blessed Virgin Mary had been desecrated. …sometime Saturday night… spray-painting the statue's face black and taping the name “ERZULIE” — the name of a Voodoo goddess — on the shrine's sign.… "We aren't going to let this stop our life of prayer and worship," he said. … [Pastor Jim Goins:] "We can't let the vandals set the agenda. They can disrupt, but they can't be allowed to be the victor."

[viral tweet by conservative comedian Evan Sayet…] My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front. … [Sayet regrets:]

"I only regret we live in a society where a joke at the expense of would-be mass murderers is something that anyone thinks I have to defend. And, again, the Leftists have accomplished their goal. Who is really irreverent here, me in a silly tweet about would-be mass murderers or those who sought to assault that which SHOULD be revered, the First Amendment right — the HUMAN right — of free speech?"

…tried to grab the nonagenarian's wallet several times. … [WW2 vet] Kemberis heroically fought him off — and struck him several times with his walking stick. "He saw me coming up to strike him on the shoulders. I hit him three or four times…. He wasn't very aggressive, but I was." …

Pete Puts the Speck in Perspective. (Wait, what?) Posters, Videos, Links, and Pete's acid wit.

Nearly a dozen Republican presidential candidates will converge on Oklahoma in two weeks when the Southern Republican Leadership Conference comes to Oklahoma City. … May 21-23 at the Cox Convention Center and downtown Renaissance Oklahoma City Convention Center Hotel. … confirmed… Bush… Cruz… Walker… Perry… Santorum… Fiorina… Carson… Bolton… Graham… Jindal… Rubio…