Blog Heap of Links for the day 19 February 2015

"…Best thing you can do right there is jerk the chains off of those guys [300 Marines] and let them go to work…." [Video]

"It is just short of two years ago that Adelle Biton, then two years of age, was driving in the Shomron with her mother and two older sisters, when Arabs threw rocks at their car, causing it to spin out of control and collide with an oncoming truck. … She spent a long time in a hospital and then time in a rehab center, before she was brought home, still severely disabled, to continue therapies.

"Adva, her mother, was remarkable for her constant devotion and her optimism.

"Today, Adelle Biton succumbed to pneumonia.…"

"A Clarion Project investigation has discovered a jihadist enclave in Texas where a deadly shooting took place in 2002. Declassified FBI documents… show the U.S. government’s concern about its links to terrorism…. enclave belongs to the network of Muslims of the Americas, a radical group linked to a Pakistani militant group called Jamaat ul-Fuqra. Its members are devoted followers of Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani, an extremist cleric in Pakistan….

Great cartoon about FCC controlling the Internet, by… why do cartoonists make their signatures so hard to read?

"Biden: Middle class ‘in worst shape since 1920s’, is currently ‘being killed’"

Megyn Kelly, Fox News, interviewing Luis Gutierrez [Video]

"Why don't you just answer the question, sir?"
"I don't want your repertoire. I want an answer to my question."
"You're dodging."
Finally she could take no more:
Kelly: We're out of time. If you want to hear more from Congressman Gutierrez, I'm sure you can do it on the Congressional floor.

The growth in number and size of government agencies, beginning about 80 years ago, has been accompanied by the expanded use of “administrative subpoenas.” These are warrants, not signed by a judge, by which government obtains records and other evidence.

More and more Americans have come to understand that these administrative subpoenas violate the Fourth Amendment’s processes….

State Department Spokeswoman Jen Psaki, who couldn’t even communicate with herself about her own scripted comments, has been named Barack Obama’s White House communications director, starting April 1. Obama released a statement trumpeting his appointment, according to Reuters, saying, "Jen worked on both my campaigns, she's served in the White House and she's traveled the world as an advisor to Secretary (John) Kerry. I fully trust Jen - and I am thrilled she's agreed to come back to the White House.

Relatedly: Valley Girls — The Surreality of State Department Briefings (video webwork 1m20s from 2014 Aug 31.

"…Obama’s not a Muslim. Hell, I seriously doubt he’s ever performed a sincere act of worship of any kind, except maybe taking those selfies. Obama is an academic leftist…." -Andrew Klavan

"…an objective measure which probably correlates with subjective experience does exist. It is called the critical flicker-fusion frequency, or CFF, and it is the lowest frequency at which a flickering light appears to be a constant source of illumination. … For people, the average CFF is 60 hertz… Dogs have a CFF of 80Hz… Flies, which have a CFF of 250Hz, are notoriously difficult to swat. A rolled up newspaper that seems to a human to be moving rapidly appears to them to be travelling through treacle."

Watts thought it was odd that a man who appeared to be in his 70s and not wearing a coat would be walking on such a cold day in that area. … "Something inside me couldn't rest until I knew he was safe," she said. … She found the man still walking along Highway 169, almost two hours after she'd first spotted him. She and her mom got him into their car and then started looking for help. …

"St. Joseph, MI -- A woman who accidentally shot herself in the eye on New Years Day at her Lake Michigan home was adjusting the handgun in her bra holster, police say….

"…Lauren A. Mohr, 34, stopped to assist two motorists and fell off a concrete wall and then off a bridge, they said. She dropped about 40 feet, state police said, calling Mohr a good Samaritan. She was transported to Yale-New Haven Hospital, where she was pronounced dead."

This brings us to the aforementioned interview of Chief Justice Moore by Chris Wallace on his Sunday Fox television program.

Chris Wallace seemed baffled by Chief Justice Moore’s arguments as if he had never heard such things before. When he questioned how anyone could dispute a ruling of a Federal Judge, Chief Justice Moore replied, “When federal courts start changing our Constitution by defining words that are not even there, like marriage, they’re going to do the same thing with family in the future,” Moore declared. The Chief Justice went on to say, “When a word’s not in the Constitution, clearly the powers of the Supreme Court do not allow them to redefine words and seize power. Powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively or to the people. This power over marriage which came from god under our organic law is not to be redefined by the United States Supreme Court or any federal court.”

The look on Mr. Wallace’s face was one of bewilderment.

"50 days into 2015… Tulsa’s residents have already put five bad guys in the ground in shootings that have been ruled justifiable self-defense. … It’s not a trend that anyone expects to continue. There were only eight legal homicides in Tulsa in all of 2014, and only two of those incidents involving average citizens."

Pistol Pete's grabbed graphics, linked links, and acerbic commentary for today

"As I left this morning to head to work the temperature was six below zero. I didn’t bother with the wind chill because it was obscene. I just kept thinking,the Cubs’ pitchers and catchers report for spring training today and the NFL Combine officially starts tomorrow."

Vic's News and Comments for the Day start here.

"On this day in 1878 Thomas Edison patented the phonograph, which he had invented the previous year."