Subscribe (RSS)Blog Heap of Links for the day 15 March 2016
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Digital Consequences
A robot, operating on the behalf of the pro-Israel advocacy group StandWithUs, has been accused of harassing students at the Ivy League Brown University in the US after it attended a discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The incident has been branded "dystopian" by a student group.
The debating cyborg, operated by one of the right-wing group's directors, Shahar Azani, was accused of "policing academic discourse" at the Rhode Island university, the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz reported.…
End of the World As We Know It
…Xena is gay in the new series.…
Yawn. No Lawless. Nobody cares.
11:03pm CDT Tue 2016 Mar 15 :MW
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Theory of Justice
Mass killer Anders Behring Breivik goes to court on Tuesday to accuse the Norwegian state of inhuman treatment… will argue that his isolation in Skien jail violates a ban on “inhuman and degrading treatment”…
Give him what he gave his victims - that should solve the problem.
10:54pm CDT Tue 2016 Mar 15 :MW
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Freedom
Should American citizens be subjected to a government established definition of acceptable religion? Should Congress presume to “prohibit the free exercise” of any citizen’s chosen faith or creed?
Should a free people be penalized if they disagree with what the government deems to be acceptable belief and practice? Should a religious college… be prohibited by any government agency from freely teaching its views concerning personal morality and human behavior? … These are not hyperbolic questions. They are not sensational or speculative. As we speak, Oklahoma Wesleyan University finds itself before the Supreme Court — forced to defend its belief…
A better question than the headline might be, why should the First Amendment have to be defended?
10:38pm CDT Tue 2016 Mar 15 :MW
Breitbart is Here
Uber Increases Productivity
Sippican's sewage mystery
Gross out
Students: ‘Orient Express’ Party Racist, ‘Toxic,’ Perpetuates Tourist Privilege
Tourist privilege? I am all for more of that …
These and many more headline links
11:32pm CDT Tue 2016 Mar 15 :MW
A 27-year-old man entered an army recruitment center in Toronto carrying a knife and stabbed two soldiers who worked there before being subdued by six or eight other soldiers. Both the injured soldiers and the attacker are now recovering in the hospital. No information has been given out by the authorities, so the Mohammed Coefficient of the case cannot yet be determined, but the Toronto police chief says there may be a connection with terrorism. Nevertheless, it is absolutely certain that the incident had nothing to do with Islam.
In other news, British holidaymakers who are attempting to schedule holidays in terrorism-free resorts — such as the coast of Spain, for example, instead of North Africa, West Africa, Turkey, etc. — may have to pay as much as 80% more as a “safety premium” to do so. Spain is thought to have fewer jihadis than other, more southern locales, hence the higher prices. …
News headline links and summaries
11:25pm CDT Tue 2016 Mar 15 :MW
He promised transformational change
US concerned about Iranian rocket launch
2 Canadian Force members stabbed at recruiting center …
Morning news headline links on the Ace of Spades blog - now being included in the Blog Heap
8:32am CDT Tue 2016 Mar 15 :MW
…Beware the Ides of March. On this day in 44 BC Julius Caesar was stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators. You never here about the "several other" Senators because old Will did not include them in the play that all school children used to have to read and study.…
The early morning thread starts off with Vic's news report. The world is iin balance - at least this much.
8:30am CDT Tue 2016 Mar 15 :MW
US Election 2016
Decision Desk HQ Results for today's Republican primaries
11:55pm CDT Tue 2016 Mar 15 :MW
U.S. Code › Title 18 › Part I › Chapter 29 › § 599
Promise of appointment by candidate
Whoever, being a candidate, directly or indirectly promises or pledges the appointment, or the use of his influence or support for the appointment of any person to any public or private position or employment, for the purpose of procuring support in his candidacy shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the violation was willful, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
Paging Dr. Carson.
…Ben Carson suggested on Newsmax TV that he was promised a role in a Trump administration in exchange for endorsing the reality TV show star.…
11:14pm CDT Tue 2016 Mar 15 :MW
Florida Senator Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) suspended his campaign for president in a speech in Miami, FL on Tuesday.…
Stayed in long enough to ruin another Tuesday.
11:07pm CDT Tue 2016 Mar 15 :MW
…Clinton went on to make the extraordinary claim to “Hardball” host Chris Matthews the United States “didn’t lose a single person” in Libya…
Four dead Americans unable to argue with her.
10:51pm CDT Tue 2016 Mar 15 :MW
…According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Soros Fund Management is one of John Kasich’s top financial contributors.…