Blog Heap of Links for the day 8 April 2015

India assists Americans evacuating Yemen in wake of weak State Department response… One has to ask, what exactly is going on at the US State Department? We have been following the deterioration of Yemen for months. Despite the obvious dangers to American citizens within this country, I guess our bureaucrats decided they really didn’t need an evacuation plan. Fortunately, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government seem to be more on top of the situation.…

I just put the last stitch into this "congratulations on your graduation quilt for my daughter. …

[Lovely work]

Congregation Toras Chaim is a tiny Orthodox Jewish Synagogue which meets in a home in north Dallas. The City of Dallas is attempting to shut the synagogue down because they are meeting in a private home without the correct Certificate of Occupation (CO). However, the Synagogue's attorney says the city’s ordinance requiring the CO is invalid under the Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act.…

…Because fertility declines significantly for women in their 40s… demographers carefully watch these women to get a sense of how many children Americans are having, or not. … With more women having their first child in their mid 30s, late 30s and early 40s, American families may be shrinking: The number of women aged 40 to 44 who had only one child roughly doubled between 1976 and 2014…

In a press release, Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz said that she did not support any government restrictions on abortion: “period. [citing Daily Caller]

Oklahoma lawmakers have approved a ban on a common second-trimester abortion procedure that critics describe as dismembering a fetus. …now goes to Republican Gov. Mary Fallin… Under the bill, doctors cannot use forceps, clamps, scissors or similar instruments on a fetus to remove it from the womb in pieces… would ban the procedure except when necessary to save a woman's life or a serious health risk to the mother…

The Guardian: Houthi rebels fight street battles with militias in Yemeni city of Aden…

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Yemen's Houthis battle over central Aden, first medical aid arrives…

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Funny and political panels - fireworks underwater!

Hillary Clinton's private email server was a spy magnet for the Russian, Chinese, Iranian and other intelligence services, say current and former intelligence officials. … "In all, this is a counterintelligence disaster of truly epic proportions…" Some experts are concerned that foreign spies could have penetrated the server as a gateway to breaking into other government systems, including classified communications. …