Blog Heap of Links for the day 7 September 2016

The ‘radicalised’ owner of a car found packed with gas cylinders close to Notre Dame cathedral has been arrested… jihadi is a woman… The father told the police that his daughter is “radicalized” and she tried to join jihadist combat areas.…

In his latest book, The War on Guns: Arming Yourself Against Gun Control Lies, John R. Lott Jr. points shows that from 1950 to 2010, not one mass public shooting took place in an area where citizens could arm themselves in self-defense.…

‘We wired it’: Emails suggest Clinton aide stage-managed Benghazi hearing questions…
WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE! Brady Campaign Goes Into Hysterics Pushing Gun Control As Congress Returns From Recess…
Young Blacks Voice Skepticism on Hillary Clinton, Worrying Democrats…

UN: Fighting displaces 100,000 in central Syria in 8 days…
Suspected gang members shoot down police helicopter in Mexico…
Australia's PM gives terror warning at Asean summit…

The British government is financing the construction of a “big new wall” along the motorway that leads to the Channel Tunnel near Calais. The concrete wall will be half a mile long and thirteen feet high, and is designed to deter would-be migrants from climbing into lorries bound for Britain. Construction work on it may begin this month.

In other news, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is considering an offer by Russian President Vladimir Putin to host talks in Moscow between the Israelis and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.…

Cats are bird killers. These animal experts let theirs outside anyway…
Republicans for Clinton: Why we oppose Trump…
UN human rights office accused of 'bizarre' behaviour after condemning the 'free market'…

Twitchy: Hillary Polling Behind Trump? No Problem! MSNBC’s Got Her Back…
Da Tech Guy: Question For NBC News And The Clinton Campaign – Where Are All The Other Coughers?…
Power Line: Green Weenie Of The Week – Barbecue Deniers…

America, is this a great country or what?…
Cuba what a wonderful country…
GOP the stupid party…

…On this day in 1916 railroad employees won the right to Workers' compensation by Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751). This showed the impact of the burgeoning age of progressivism in the US and the beginning of the fall of the Constitution. The name of this law was wholly false as the law only applied to RR workers. A similar law had been passed in 1906 but the Supremes struck it down because it was not limited to workers involved in interstate commerce. Congress got some new court members and went back to the trough. We have workers comp for everybody now.…

The Green Party Presidential Nominee faces criminal charges after allegedly vandalizing construction equipment at an energy pipeline site with hundreds of other protesters.…

…now that John Bachtell, the national chair of the Communist Party USA, has put his support behind Hillary, where are the news media? Instead of raising an alarm, the news is met with the sound of crickets and tumbleweeds.…

In an appearance on BBC’s “Newsnight” that aired Tuesday, comedienne Amy Schumer vowed to move to Spain if Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump wins the presidential election.…

The Hillary Clinton press corps is soldiering on despite hazardous work conditions…