Blog Heap of Links for the day 6 September 2016

“Phyllis Schlafly spent an astounding 70 years in public service of her fellow Americans,” said the Eagle Forum in a statement. “Her focus from her earliest days until her final ones was protecting the family, which she understood as the building block of life.

… She had a pie smashed into her face and pig’s blood thrown on her, and feminist Betty Friedan once told Schlafly: “I’d like to burn you at the stake.” She was chastised in a 1970s “Doonesbury” a framed copy of which hung on her office wall.

“What I am defending is the real rights of women,” Schlafly said at the time. “A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.”

Thirty-five states ratified the (Equal Rights) amendment, three short of the necessary 38. Schlafly said amendment supporters couldn’t prove it was needed.

“They were never able to show women would get any benefit out of it,” she told the Associated Press in 2007. “It (the U.S. Constitution) is already sex-neutral. Women already have all the rights that men have.”

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention literally has overstepped its authority in proposing to grant itself powers that obviously negate any rights U.S. citizens thought they had by issuing the Proposed Rule “Control of Communicable Diseases” on August 15, 2016 wherein CDC will self-invest itself with the power to apprehend healthy people en masse and detain them indefinitely with NO process of appeal!…

It was 50 years ago, on 5 September 1966, that the cameras rolled for the first time in the Italianate village of Portmeirion as filming got under way for the cult 1960s adventure TV show The Prisoner.…

…Border Patrol Agent Hector Garza, acting in his role as president of the National Border Patrol Council, Local 2455, appeared on Fox News Channel recently to discuss border security and the need for building a wall. “Eight out of ten people that are caught entering our country illegally are not deported and are allowed to stay in the United States,” Garza explained. “Unfortunately for Border Patrol agents, we are trying to do our jobs as best we can with the very limited resources that we have.”…

…I went to Dr. Bing and checked out what illnesses are associated with chronic coughing. …

Renewed Turkey-Kurds conflict has killed nearly 2,000…
North Korea fires three ballistic missiles in G20 show of power…
ISIS planned for more operatives, targets during Paris attacks…

Orwellian: Feds Spend $500,000 to Tap “Extensive Tracking Infrastructure” to “Combat Online Trolling”…
Oklahoma: Police question man who asked library to stop promoting Islam on cars…
France Deploys Army After Migrants Cause Car Crashes Trying To Hijack Rides Britain…

The news feed is very light tonight. Maybe because it’s Labor Day, there’s no real news — as long as Tropical Storm Hermine stays far away from the urban warrens of East Coast progressives, that is.

In migration news, the Swiss State Secretariat for Migration says that up to 40% of the country’s registered migrants have disappeared. The monitoring system charged with tracking them can no longer find them.

In other news, President Obama called off a planned meeting with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte after the latter called him “son of a whore”.…

New Trail of Tears: How Washington Is Destroying American Indians…
Kathleen Willey: I Overheard White House Staff Teaching Hillary Her Trademark ‘I Don’t Recall’ Defense…
The Kurds, against all odds…

…Hillary sounds exactly like the consumptive prostitute coughing in Ernie Kovacs’ comedic moment.…

Snowflake protection continues…
When life hands you lemons spiders…
Missing probe found, cell calls still dropped…

…On this day in 1935 FDR created the WPA with Executive Order 7034. However, unlike Obama, congress had already approved this action and had allocated money for it.