Blog Heap of Links for the day 30 March 2016

The city council in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma… needed high ground to build a one-million gallon water tower. … But the property they needed was owned by the First Baptist Church. So they made a deal… “We donated the land and the easements for the tower,” Pastor Garland told me. “In kind, they said they would paint our name on the water tower.” … But it turns out – a gaggle of perpetually offended atheists, agnostics and free-thinkers from Wisconsin took issue with the deal.…

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• University Cancels ‘Vagina Monologues’ Because a White Lady Wrote It
• Transgender Man Sues Barbershop for Discrimination…

• New National Poll: 72% Refuse to Support Ted Cruz, 90% Refuse to Support Kasich…
• Islamic Jihad vows to avenge the blood of Palestinians ‘executed’ by Israel
• Obama plotting to stall Hillary prosecution…

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said that millions of Muslims adhere to an ideology that makes them incompatible with the modern world. He also said that the mujahideen of the Islamic State cannot be contained, that they “have to be crushed”.

In other news, the U.S. government ordered the families of American diplomats and military personnel evacuated from their posts in southern Turkey, due to the increasing threat of terrorism in the region.…

A man named Larry Russell Dawson pulled a gun on a police officer at the screening area of the National Capitol visitors’ center in Washington D.C., and was immediately shot and wounded by police. Mr. Dawson is under arrest in the hospital, where he is recovering from his wounds. He is reportedly known to police, having exhibited (non-Muslim) religious mania at the House of Representatives last fall.

In other news, in his Easter message Pope Francis condemned governments that prevent refugees from crossing borders.…

…On this day in 1842 ether anesthesia was used for the first time, in an operation by the GA surgeon Dr. Crawford Long.

All three U.S. Republican candidates – Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Donald Trump, and Gov. John Kasich – have backed down from their “pledges” to support the party’s candidate at the general election, “regardless of who it is”.…

…Security and healthcare and education and housing and neighborhoods… Oh My!

See, this is the problem when a man running for President does not understand the role of the Federal Government. It’s also the problem when a Democrat is running for the Republican nomination. He tends to have trouble remembering that Republican voters don’t want the Federal Government involved in education, healthcare, housing and neighborhoods.…

This is a really great answer that Ted Cruz gives to the question about bringing women into the Republican party.

Check it out…