Blog Heap of Links for the day 16 August 2016

Oklahoma: Ruling delayed on jihadi’s plea; admits to beheading co-worker for insulting Islam, Judge considering “mental illness”…

…Robert Hunt, a Southern Methodist University professor considered an expert on Islamic beliefs, testified for the defense that Nolen, a Muslim convert, developed ideas about being a Muslim that are irrational, contradictory and not in keeping with normal Islamic teachings or the ideology of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS.…

Anjem Choudary, one of Britain’s most notorious hate preachers, has been convicted of supporting Islamic State. He now faces up to a decade in jail.…

Fifteen prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center were sent to the United Arab Emirates in the single largest release of detainees during the Obama administration… had been held without charge at Guantanamo, some for over 14 years…

…one of the nation's leading Virtual Reality companies THE VOID has rejected… explicit content on their immersive hyper-reality experiences," which will open to the public in "VOID Experience Centers" around the world.…

…Parents of students at Yukon [Oklahoma] Middle School recently noticed an error on their new t-shirts.

This shirt includes the slogan, “Execellence in Education.”…

…Albuquerque’s Mayor Richard Berry saw a rise in panhandlers in his city and knew that something had to be done. Rather than trying to kick them out, or just building new government shelters, he gave them a chance to work.

In September 2015, Berry launched “There’s a Better Way,” a government program that hires panhandlers to work on city beautification projects for $9 an hour. They’re also fed lunch and offered an overnight stay at a shelter.

The project has been a runaway success.…

…Paywalls were supposed to help rescue newspapers from the crisis of sinking print circulation as readers shifted to getting their news online.

But with a few exceptions, they have failed to deliver much relief, prompting some news organizations to rethink their digital strategies.…

A synagogue dating back to the end of the Second Temple Era was discovered on the Tel Recheš Peak in the Galilee last week in a rare and unique archaeological find. …a huge and impressive room nine meters high and eight meters wide with walls lined with benches made of limestone blocks. Diggers also discovered one of the two foundational pillars supporting the synagogue's roof. …reveals insights into customs of the ancient Jewish community and sheds light on watershed moments in Jewish history.…

Wargaming the Electoral College…
Concealed-Carry Permit Surge Could Play Decisive Role in These 2016 Battleground States…
Can the states legally ban “gay conversion” therapy?…

How the Hunt Brothers Cornered the Silver Market and Then Lost it All…
Seagate Introduces a 60TB SSD – Is a 3.6PB Storage Pod Next?…
World Brain: The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopaedia…

Twitchy: Another One Bites The Dust? Brad Thor Lays Down His #NeverTrump Sword…
American Thinker: It Won’t End Well For Global Elites…
This Ain’t Hell: Sole Female Marine Drops Out Of Infantry Training…

Adam Piggott: The Disgusting Fat Acceptance Movement…
Don Surber: Media Meltdown…
The Lonely Conservative: History Is The Story Of Life…

Fire broke out today at a refugee center in the German city of Kassel, destroying at least a dozen of the containers used to house the migrants. Sixteen residents of the center received medical treatment for smoke inhalation. The fire department has ruled out an anti-migrant attack as the cause of the fire.

In other news, three people have been killed and more than 7,000 rescued during the massive flooding that has struck the state of Louisiana.…

Milwaukee County Sheriff explains the cause of riots: Failed Liberal Policies…
Big Chill: ‘Substantial Cooling’ Predicted Within The Next Few Years…
New Black Panther Leader on Milwaukee: This Is A War…

Islam Academic: Migrants Want Eurabia, Globalists Using Migrants to Destroy The West…
Whites Targeted In Milwaukee Riots…
Black Lives Matter Targets Graceland: Plans To ‘Shut Down’ Elvis Week…

Hillary Clinton suborning illegal voting…
Obama administration flips off America…
G.O.P talking tough…

…On this day in 1916 the Migratory Bird Treaty between Canada and the United States was signed. …

Yesterday in Youngstown, Ohio, Donald Trump delivered the best speech of his campaign to date. Newt Gingrich rightly called it the most important since Ronald Reagan left office.… Mr. Trump made clear that he recognizes the threat to freedom in our time, which he explicitly characterized as “Radical Islam” and its guiding, supremacist ideology, Sharia.…

Green Party VP nominee contributed essay to book claiming Charlie Hebdo massacre was work of CIA and Mossad… deemed Bashar al-Assad, the dictator of Syria who has murdered hundreds of thousands of his own people, to be a man with democratic legitimacy…