Blog Heap of Links for the day 24 July 2016

At least one person has been killed and around 11 are believed injured after an explosion at a wine bar late on Sunday in Ansbach, near the southern German city of Nuremberg… next to a music festival attended by around 2,500 people.… speculation is emerging on social media platforms that a man was seen to have been turned away from the festival just moments before the blast.…

A U.S. Army National Guard staff sergeant says he and one of his Army veteran friends were assaulted by Black Lives Matter supporters in San Antonio, Texas, Thursday Evening. “As I was getting my face stomped in and thrown through a window, they (all 4 of them) were yelling racial slurs saying how whites sucked and black lives were better,” Marc Stephen, the second victim, said on Facebook.…

Syrian refugee, 21, hacks PREGNANT woman to death with a machete and injures two others before hero BMW driver runs him over, in latest attack to shock Germany…

Rep. Tom Cole (R., Okla.) embarrassed Rep. Keith Ellison (D., Minn.) on ABC Sunday morning when the latter falsely claimed that former Democratic Alabama governor George Wallace was a Republican.…

Government BANS eg, etc and ie from its websites in case they prove too confusing to non-English speakers
The Government Digital Service says it advocates 'simple, clear language'
People whose first language is not English might not understand terms
Programs for visually-impaired people mispronounce the abbreviations
But critics say move is 'short-sighted' as Latin is part of 'cultural heritage'…

The Justice Department announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania, alleging that the township violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) when it denied zoning approval to allow the Bensalem Masjid to build a mosque on three adjoining parcels of land in the township.…

Gary Johnson On the Verge of Appearing On the Debate Stage…
They’ve Started! Massachusetts Attorney General Bans-AR-15s, AKs …
Global Warming Expedition Stopped In Its Tracks By Arctic Sea Ice…

DNC In Panic Mode Over Latest Wikileaks Doc Dump…
Trump pulls nearly even with Clinton after Republican convention: Reuters/Ipsos poll…
Munich Jihad Shooting Exposes Media Double Standard…

Two bombs exploded during a demonstration on the streets of Kabul, killing at least 80 people. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, which targeted Afghanistan’s Shi’ite minority.

In other news, the Democrat vice-presidential candidate, Former Virginia Governor Tim Kaine, made his first campaign appearance with Hillary Clinton at an event in Miami.…

…slept late now must eat something…

In poll after poll, around 50 percent of Bernie Sanders supporters say they will not vote for Hillary Clinton in November. …