Blog Heap of Links for the day 19 November 2015

In the last 24 hours:

Police on lookout for 4 suspicious bearded men spotted at Pentagon

5 Muslim foreign nationals arrested on Ohio turnpike

6 Syrians with fake passports on the way to the US arrested in Honduras

8 Syrian migrants arrested at Texas border near Laredo

What corrupts politics more: Millionaires and billionaires? Or the rules that intend to limit the influence of wealthy donors? George Will, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post, explains who designed campaign finance reform and why Congress's solution to the problem may actually be the bigger problem.…

Many voters don't have the money to donate to political candidates or don't care enough to bother. But what if the government gave them $100 to dole out as they saw fit?

That's the experiment underway in Seattle after voters this month adopted the nation's first voucher system for campaign contributions. The idea is to get those who don't normally donate more involved in politics as a way to counteract the influence of big corporate donors and wealthy individuals…

…On this day in 1990 pop group Milli Vanilli were stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals, they had also been lip-sinking all their stage shows. …