Subscribe (RSS)Blog Heap of Links for the day 31 July 2016
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Wars and Rumors
Authorities sent in a robot to investigate the toolbox on Sunday at the Maracana Stadium as rehearsals for the ceremony were underway.
The toolbox is believed to have exploded when the robot touched it. No injuries have been reported.…
11:43pm CDT Sun 2016 Jul 31 :MW
…there has been a significant attack directed or inspired by ISIS every 84 hours since June 8 in cities outside the war zones in Iraq, Syria, Sinai in Egypt and Libya…
Cites CNN. - WNU Editor: And the trends are telling all of us that this is going to get worse.
9:27pm CDT Sun 2016 Jul 31 :MW
…Jos Vanderlee, 65, a priest in Belgium stabbed ‘by asylum seeker in his own home after letting him in to use shower’…
Be charitable, but not stupid.
7:21pm CDT Sun 2016 Jul 31 :MW
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Energy
More than a decade after conservationists helped persuade Congress to require adding corn-based ethanol and other biofuels to gasoline, some groups regret the resulting agricultural runoff in waterways and conversion of prairies to cropland — improving the odds that lawmakers might seek changes to the program next year.…
9:25pm CDT Sun 2016 Jul 31 :MW
People Live
Skydiver Luke Aikens became the first person ever to jump out of a plane and into a net on the ground without utilizing a parachute…
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Breitbart is Here
Why Trump Can Win Pennsylvania…
Obama Issues Executive Order That May Drive Gunsmiths Out of Business…
When Assisted Suicide Becomes Coercive…
Brief news summaries and links for the past week
11:40pm CDT Sun 2016 Jul 31 :MW
When We Weren’t Looking, Obama Passed Another Anti-Gun EO…
Muslim man shoots dead his own sisters because they chose their own husbands…
Harvard Med School Scientists Want Female Volunteer Willing to Give Birth to a Genetically Modified Neanderthal…
Seriously, Harvard? Ethics no longer taught there?
9:33pm CDT Sun 2016 Jul 31 :MW
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls thinks that his country needs to establish a renewed rapport with Islam. In an interview with Le Monde, Mr. Valls said, “We need to reset and invent a new relationship with Islam.”
In other news, more than 5,000 immigration-critics took to the streets of Berlin today in a demonstration against Chancellor Angela Merkel and her migration policy.…
News summaries with links
9:29pm CDT Sun 2016 Jul 31 :MW
…On this day in 1790 the first U.S. patent was issued. Samuel Hopkins was issued a patent for a potash process.
Vic's roundup and branding of the latest news, in the early morning thread as it should be.
9:22am CDT Sun 2016 Jul 31 :MW
US Election 2016
…As a professor who has taught Christian ethics for 39 years… I think voting for Trump is a morally good choice.… there is nothing morally wrong with voting for a flawed candidate if you think he will do more good for the nation than his opponent. In fact, it is the morally right thing to do.…
If you’re over 35, you lived through it, so read it and recollect. Amazing to me how much I had forgotten! For those under 35, read this, verify it yourself and don’t ever forget.
When Bill Clinton was president, he allowed Hillary to assume authority over an attempt to health care reform. Even after threats and intimidation, she couldn’t get a vote in a Democrat controlled US Congress. This fiasco cost the American taxpayers about $13 million for studies, promotion, and other efforts…
Don't miss the rest. It got worse! Take this concise summary into the voting booth with you if you need to fortify yourself before voting for Trump.