Blog Heap of Links for the day 15 December 2015

GOLDSBORO, N.C. - …police arrested four men from New York on Saturday and charged them with felony larceny after an officer spotted them leaving a Lowe’s Home Improvement store with hundreds of plumbing supplies… More charges are expected …similar larcenies may have been committed at other businesses in Virginia and North Carolina. … FBI was notified… but the agency isn't investigating the case.… Yudesh Ruplal, 21, Shane Ali, 22, Benjamin Curtis, 18, and Alexandre Michel Regis, 20.…

…A time-lapse of all terrorist attacks with MORE than 20 fatalities between 1.12.2000 and 13.11.2015…

Sanity — and Santa — have been restored at a Brooklyn public elementary school where St. Nick was banned, the Pledge of Allegiance was dropped and Thanksgiving was replaced with a “harvest festival.”… Department of Education officials said on Monday that the Pledge of Allegiance will be recited over the PA system every morning…

…Even before last spring’s rains, the Lewisville Dam was listed by the Corps as the eighth-most-hazardous in the country. Recent rains have made it worse, the Corps says.

The dam is so unstable now that the Fort Worth District is considering asking Corps headquarters to upgrade its risk classification to the highest: “critically near failure” — that is, “almost certain to fail under normal operations … within a few years without intervention,” according to a Corps document.…

Here’s something you don’t see every day: Japanese square dancers, dancing to Christmas music by a Russian-born American Jewish songwriter. Now there’s multiculturalism for you.…

GWINNETT COUNTY, GA - Armed Gwinnett County residents packing heat, took action after hearing a man's cries for help. They credit their guns with saving the elderly man's life. … "Help, he is trying to kill me, help me, help me." …Duncan said she grabbed her purse with her gun inside and took off to find the man. "As I got closer I realized that there is this elderly gentleman laying on the ground with a younger man on top of him with a knife… I see blood and this big old knife." …She said she told him to stop, but he did not …"Finally I said, 'I'm getting ready to shoot you' and then he stopped… and he tossed the knife away… Her friend, Childress, who is a former law enforcement officer showed up right behind her. …While Childress pointed his gun at the man Duncan called 911.…

…Immigration police in Norway have raised the alarm about hundreds of “refugees” who were discovered to have ISIS flags, photos of severed heads, and other jihad paraphernalia on their mobile phones when they entered the country. Meanwhile, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban says that the EU’s open-borders migration policy has made the continent look like a battlefield.

In other news, in the wake of last month’s terror attacks, Lombardy has banned the burka in schools and government buildings. Meanwhile, a Syrian national suspected of being a member of ISIS has been detained in Sicily.…

…Youtube Shelly Dankert posted this brilliant video on Donald Trump, his position on the First Amendment and his numerous attacks on me and my work.

If you don’t support free speech, you are not qualified to be president.…

…Donald Trump is a reaction. He's filling a vacuum that shouldn't be there in the first place and it wouldn't be there if America had a President worth the name.…