Blog Heap of Links for the day 10 April 2015

An 83-year-old Tulsa woman is desperate for answers after vandals struck her home near 121st and Yale. … Her late husband built the home with cement and steel in the 1960s…

Today, New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez signed a bill into law that not only restricts the state from seizing property without due process, but throws a wrench into federal efforts to do the same.…

Most of us think of Europe as the ancestral home of white people. But a new study shows that pale skin, as well as other traits such as tallness and the ability to digest milk as adults, arrived in most of the continent relatively recently. The work, presented here last week at the 84th annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, offers dramatic evidence of recent evolution in Europe and shows that most modern Europeans don’t look much like those of 8000 years ago.…

Unable to Face a Live Audience or Questions, Confused Grandmother to Announce Presidential Campaign on Twitter

Victims of the 2009 Fort Hood terror attack finally received their long-delayed honor on Friday at a Purple Heart ceremony in Texas — though they may have to keep fighting to get military benefits. …

…With the backing of the National Rifle Association and California Rifle and Pistol Association, Roberts filed a federal lawsuit in May 2014, over the $15,500 worth of firearms. In the end he got the money, but not the guns. The police had had them destroyed.

Second Amendment lawyers say his case is not rare.…

Daily Mail: Obama and Castro to have a substantive 'discussion' tomorrow at Panama summit - the first in more than 50 years between U.S. and Cuban leaders…

Reuters: Obama, Castro to share stage at summit as detente takes hold…

Pete pulls together the best and the worst.

"…Rauner is having a news conference as I type this promising disaster aid for the area that was left with 2 dead,6 seriously injured and millions in losses.Just a reminder how helpless man is against God’s power.…"

Vic's Early News is so early, it's on the Overnight Thread.

"…On this day in 1963 the submarine USS Thresher was lost at sea with 129 seamen aboard.…"