Blog Heap of Links for the day 2 August 2016

A 21-year-old civil engineering student from the West Bank’s Hebron University attempted to carry out a mass-casualty bombing attack on Jerusalem’s light rail last month to exact revenge for Jewish visitation to the Temple Mount, police said on Tuesday.…

The Islamic State terror group has come out publicly to reject Pope Francis’ claims that the war being waged by Islamic terrorists is not religious in nature, assuring the pontiff that their sole motivation is religious and sanctioned by Allah in the Qur’an.…

Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean told Breitbart News that “Iran is the farthest thing from an Islamic Republic” and that Iran is not “a Muslim country.”…

Actor Will Smith…

…Two women were walking near the home… heard glass break and a dog barking loudly… women called police… officers then entered the home, where they found the resident unconscious.… dog suffered a minor injury to a front paw… woman remained in the intensive care unit of a local hospital on Monday.

…This intellectual revolution has infected anthropology (among many fields) with a dangerous, self-contradictory nihilism that rejects the possibility of objective Truth toward which we may move and posits many different truths held by different peoples — all equally valid. Yet they behave as if their belief in many truths must be treated as The Truth that must not be questioned.

Anthropologists insist on the relativity of knowledge, except when it comes to their own statements, which they take to be The Absolute Truth.…

An asteroid set to narrowly miss Earth could cause 'immense suffering and death' years later if its orbit is changed when it passes dangerously near to our planet. …called Bennu…crosses Earth's orbit once every six years… set to pass between the moon and our planet in 2135.

Scientists are worried the 500-metre wide asteroid's orbit could be tweaked by Earth's gravity as it passes by, causing it to smash into our planet later in the century.…

…Hillary Clinton: “My view has always been, this is a choice, it is not a mandate. The unborn person doesn’t have Constitutional rights.…"

It's one of the most universal recommendations in all of public health: Floss daily to prevent gum disease and cavities.

Except there's little proof that flossing works.…

One study review in 2011 did credit floss with a slight reduction in gum inflammation… However, the reviewers ranked the evidence as "very unreliable.…"

Rescuers say toxic gas dropped on Syrian town where Russian helicopter shot down…
Twin suicide bombings kill 6 Yemeni soldiers…
U.S. warplanes launch bombing campaign on Islamic State in Libya…

I’m tired, really tired, after a two-day marathon to get a complaint into bankruptcy court. I’ll therefore strive for brevity in this round-up, relying more on quotations from the posts I’m highlighting than on my own commentary.…

How archaeologists found the lost medieval megacity of Angkor…
The TSA: A Monument to government Idiocy…
Mike Pence shows how it’s done in response to a question about Trump and the Khan family…

The Italian coast guard has rescued 6,000 would-be migrants in the Mediterranean Sea since last Thursday. Meanwhile, Hungarian authorities apprehended more than 200 people who attempted to cross the border from Serbia over the weekend. Also, Serbia arrested eleven people for smuggling immigrants into Hungary.

In other news, Pope Francis decried those who would equate Islam with terrorism.…

Nightmouse is in hospital, no word on a diagnosis yet.

Warren Buffet pulled the “have you no decency?” card on Trump re Khizzy Khan. Color me unimpressed…

… I’ll lead with the posters showing media bias…

That will show them. Not.…
"Very troubling". Russians are shaking.…
E.U. membership sure is expensive…

…On this day in 1923 Vice President Calvin Coolidge became President after the death of Warren G. Harding. He was elected on his own in 1924. Silent Cal he was called and he was the best President we have had in the modern era. He reduced taxes and government and was probably the last President to ever do so. And as a result the nation's economy boomed. Reagan reduced taxes and tried to reduce government but was blocked by Democrats in congress and some of his own RINO Party. And just about everything he did was undone by the Democrats in congress and Bush. …

Michelle Malkin: Check Out The Raging, Glaring Hypocrisy Of Open-Borders Dems…
Dustbury: In Lieu Of Actual Life…
Lonely Conservative: The Bright Side Of Having No TV…

What’s the latest Trump EVIL ACT that convinces #NeverTrump that they are doing the right thing by allowing Hillary to become president?

He KICKED A CRYING BABY OUT OF HIS RALLY!!!!!!!!!

Here’s the video of what happened.…

Prolific author, AMERICAN FREE PRESS writer and seasoned Clinton researcher Victor Thorn was found at the top of a mountain near his home, the apparent victim of a gunshot wound. Family and some close friends contend Thorn took his own life on his birthday, August 1. Thorn would have been 54.…

Donald Trump tweeted a picture of himself eating Kentucky Fried Chicken with a knife and a fork Monday, and his decision to use silverware prompted jokes and mocking from Twitter users.…