Blog Heap of Links for the day 22 March 2016

As many as 31 people were killed and more than 180 injured as coordinated terrorist bombings rocked the Brussels airport and subway system during rush hour Tuesday morning in the Belgian capital.

Two bombings at Zaventem Airport, where 11 people were reportedly killed, and another at the metro station in the Maelbeek section near the European Union headquarters, where the mayor's office said 20 were killed, were almost immediately confirmed as terrorism. The attack at the airport was reportedly accompanied by shouts in Arabic and gunfire, and an unexploded suicide belt was reportedly found in the aftermath.…

I've got a LE friend on the ground in Brussels. He just sent me pictures of the airport and the Metro car. It's bad, really, bad. At least 24 dead and close to 100 injured with many grievous injuries. Both locations were suicide bombers, multiple at the airport.

The Metro explosion was from inside a crowded car with a crowded platform. The car was destroyed from the inside out..…

On this day in 1638 Anne Hutchinson was expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent. So much for the myth that the Pilgrims came to the new world for religious freedom. Anne Hutchinson finally wound up in what is now NY, which was a Dutch colony at the time. She and her family were massacred by Indians in the end. Only one daughter survived.…