Blog Heap of Links for the day 8 April 2011

U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid on Friday said Republicans want to shut down the government because they want to deny funding to women's health clinics. ... they think there's nothing more important than keeping women from getting cancer screenings... [Idiot-a$$hole meter needle buries itself. Someone get this man a glass of warm milk and tuck him into bed. He's gone.]

Here's something to keep in mind as Democrats risk a government shutdown in order to preserve federal subsidies of Planned Parenthood. From the Center for Responsive Politics

About a dozen representatives of Kloppenburg's campaign were seated at tables in a conference room at the administration building, poring through poll books to see the number of voters and then looking at tapes of votes that were recorded by voting machines. A smaller contingent from Prosser's campaign were on hand to review the proceedings.

As America struggles to shed the bonds of a left-wing establishment that brooks no dissent and means to keep its hegemony over the public purse, Wisconsin's battles from the courthouse to the governor's mansion show, at the least, that there is plenty of life left in the old republic.

A student recorded the incident. In the video, the officer is seen spraying the animal after it began chasing students around at Kimbrough Middle School. Students are heard begging the cop, reffered to as Officer Davis on the video, to stop with cries of "No!" and "Don't spray him!"

[17yo] from Kingsthorpe, Northampton, was in a Government and Politics lecture at Northampton School for Girls when she yawned and dislocated her jaw.