Blog Heap of Links for the day 22 August 2016

…A boy suicide bomber in his early teens was arrested by Kurdish security forces in Kirkuk on Sunday night before detonating his explosives belt, after two other suicide attacks on the same day in the Kurdish city.…

A Muslim landlord who attacked his Christian tenant with a metal pipe and broke her leg during a discussion about their religion, which had escalated into an argument……

Kettering Police and Ascension Catholic Church leaders say two to three Arab men who entered the church Sunday and began videotaping the service were studying Christianity.

The men’s activity alarmed some parishioners who contacted police which prompted officers to respond…

This is Texas, not Saudi Arabia.… Every single day, the two women were brought over to al-Homoud’s home, where they were beaten, starved, and worked like slaves for absolutely no pay. The only food they were allowed was from the leftovers he and his wife left, and their only form of a shower was the water hose outside. When al-Homoud was not “using” his slaves, he “stored” them in a gigantic plastic box he created.…

A federal judge in Texas is blocking for now the Obama administration’s directive to U.S. public schools that transgender students must be allowed to use the bathrooms and locker rooms consistent with their chosen gender identity.…

…The major takeaway, as the editor of the journal explains, is that “some of the most frequently heard claims about sexuality and gender are not supported by scientific evidence.”…

Turkey vows to cleanse Islamic State from its border after wedding attack kills 54…
S. Korea, US start drills despite N. Korea's nuclear threat…
'We are heading towards a European 9/11'…

The German government is toughening border controls along its Swiss border. Migrants who are being blocked from the Balkan route and the Brenner Pass are now crossing through Switzerland and attempting to enter Germany that way.

In other news, a suicide bomber blew up at a wedding in Turkey, killing at least 50 people and injuring many more. The bomber is said to have been a 12-year-old boy sent by the Islamic State and detonated remotely.…

Why Zika is our friend…
Is God Transgender?…
A bizarre editorial from some paper in New York…

Does WikiLeaks Have Hillary Clinton’s October Surprise? …
Gun Control Researcher: You Can’t See My Data…
NPR Lectures About Selfish Moms Having Kids in “Age of Climate Change”…

…Facts favor conservativism, which is why the mainstream media works so hard to hide them.…

What is bigger her butt or her carbon foot print?
Does Huma hate the U.S.A. as much as Hillary?
Zika a threat to the gulf region?

…On this day in 1952 the infamous French penal colony on Devil's Island was permanently closed.…

The latest ad from Hillary Clinton’s campaign suggests that, if elected, Donald Trump might launch nuclear weapons because he lacks the experience and temperament to be president.…

…They were angry. The coal industry that made West Virginia prosperous has been devastated. Every day, it seemed, another mine laid off workers or closed entirely. Friends were forfeiting their cars, homes and futures.

For these men, this season’s presidential campaign boils down to a single choice. “I’m for Trump…”