Blog Heap of Links for the day 26 January 2016

…Russellville, Arkansas… She took exit 81 and stopped at the Superstop Convenience store. Upon exiting the ladies’ room inside the store there were two young Middle-Eastern-looking men standing right in front of the door. She exited the store quickly and they followed her. She got inside her car and locked the doors. Before she could leave the two men got in their car and parked behind her. She said they had their windows rolled down and were shouting at her and motioning to her. She managed to drive up on the curb and walkway she was parked in front of to get out of there. My daughter said she was very upset, but she did call local police after she got back on the highway.…

…Abe Vigoda, who earned Emmy Award nominations in three straight years for his portrayal of the world-weary Det. Phil Fish on the 1970s ABC sitcom Barney Miller, has died. He was 94. …died on Tuesday morning at home in New Jersey. …also is remembered for his role as hulking mob boss Sal Tessio in Francis Ford Coppola’s first two Godfather films. …

…A lost story by famed British children’s author Beatrix Potter — “The Tale of Kitty-in-Boots” — has been discovered among her memorabilia and will be published this year more than a century after she wrote it.…

…In selecting speakers for Oklahoma Wesleyan, party affiliation and political positions do not matter. Personal conduct, public statements, theological integrity and moral consistency do. …we choose speakers who generally promote our university’s mission and who do not stand in opposition, either in word or deed, to what we claim to hold dear as a Christian community. …Anyone who is pro-abortion is not on my side. Anyone who calls women “pigs,” “ugly,” “fat” and “pieces of a—” is not on my side. Anyone who mocks the handicapped is not on my side. Anyone who has argued the merits of a government takeover of banks, student loans, the auto industry and healthcare is not on my side. Anyone who has been on the cover of Playboy and proud of it, who brags of his sexual history with multiple women and who owns strip clubs in his casinos is not on my side. Anyone who believes the government can wrest control of the definition of marriage from the church is not on my side. Anyone who ignores the separation of powers and boasts of making the executive branch even more imperial is not on my side.… No, Donald Trump will not be speaking at Oklahoma Wesleyan University.…

A female employee of an asylum center near Gothenburg in Sweden was stabbed to death by one of the residents of the center. Since the center is for culture-enrichers who are — or claim to be — 14 to 17 years old, the alleged suspected perpetrator is a “youth”, and no further information is available about him. His motivation for the crime is unknown, but the family and friends of the victim are consoling themselves with the knowledge that the incident had nothing to do with Islam.

In other news, in order to make sure that newly-arrived “refugees” in the Netherlands are not discriminatory against gays, the Dutch authorities are planning to hold gay rights seminars in asylum centers. The program will be based on a model used in secondary schools.…

…On this day in 1998 Bill Clinton went on national TV and denied having had "sexual relations" with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. He later told the same lie in court, committing perjury, which ultimately resulted in his impeachment in the House. But thanks to a few traitorous Republicans (and Scottish Law) he skated in the Senate. Later his law license was suspended for 5 years. If any normal lawyer was caught committing perjury he would have been thrown in jail for 5 years and his license revoked permanently. …