Blog Heap of Links for the day 28 June 2016

House Republicans unveiled their plan to replace Obamacare last week. Whether it would usher in “better” policies than the Affordable Care Act remains up for debate, but one thing is certain – it’s every bit as unconstitutional as Obamacare.…

Speaker of the House Paul Ryan on Friday said Democrats participating in the House sit-in this week will be billed for the cost of cleaning up the mess they left behind. … empty beer and liquor bottles, discarded condoms, articles of underwear, cigarette butts, various items of drug paraphernalia, assorted sex aids, and countless urine, feces, and vomit stains.… "These people are disgusting animals, and the taxpayers aren't going to pay to clean up their mess," Ryan told reporters.…

…According to 7th Circuit Judge Richard Posner in a post published to Slate, U.S. judges should stop studying the Constitution.

“I see absolutely no value to a judge of spending decades, years, months, weeks, day, hours, minutes, or seconds studying the Constitution, the history of its enactment, its amendments, and its implementation,”…

…A U.S. government security officer serving at the U.S. Special Mission in Benghazi prior to the September 11, 2012 attacks, warned his superiors that lack of adequate security at the compound made serving there a “suicide mission.”

The officer further predicted to his superiors “that there was a very good chance that everybody here was going to die.”…

An elderly man who lost consciousness during a flight this weekend and was all but taken for dead regained his pulse and consciousness after Tim Tebow reportedly walked down the aisle and prayed with the entire section of plane and the gentleman’s family.…

…You may have heard about the sexual assault of a 5-year-old girl in Idaho by Muslim migrant children and a teenager. The facts are still not entirely clear. And the authorities are not helping matters any by making the defense of "refugees" into their priority.

United States Attorney Wendy J. Olson… seems to have made Muslim refugees into her priority.…

Video of singer Star Genleah Swain’s rendition of the national anthem while at the Lincoln Memorial has now gone viral.…

The Guardian: 69m children will die of preventable causes, says Unicef…
North Korea says entire army 'waiting' for instructions…
Rio police protest lack of salaries, toilet paper…

With Guest Dr. Bill Warner… Happy Independence Day to our friends over in Great Britain. The historical significance of this is huge. Far-Left ideology has failed again.…

I have lots — and I do mean lots — of interesting links for you today. Before I start, though, I want to address a point I read from someone worried about what Brexit and Trump mean.…

Why Brexit did Europe a favor…
24 crazy pictures of micro-apartments around the world…
Dem Party Platform Calls For Prosecuting Global Warming Skeptics…

In a surprising move, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan apologized to Russian President Vladimir Putin for the downing of a Russian military jet over Turkey last year. Mr. Erdogan seems to have felt the pinch of Russian sanctions and the increasing international isolation of Turkey, because he has also mended fences with Israel.

In other news, the South African treasury ordered President Jacob Zuma to repay more than half a million dollars of government funds that he used for improvements on his private residence.…

Jan Brewer: ‘I’m Fed Up’ With All Republicans Being Treated Like Bigots, Racists…
US Customs and Border Protection wants to ask for your “online presence” at the border…
Dem Party Platform Calls For Prosecuting Global Warming Skeptics…

SCOTUS strikes another 2nd Amendment blow…
Presumed W VA drowning victims found alive…
Cuba flips off USA…

…On this day in 1978 the Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bared race quota systems in college admissions. But they muddied the waters by saying "diversity" could be a factor in preferences. So what did all these liberal organizations do? All those race "quotas" turned magically into goals for diversity and nothing changed. …