Blog Heap of Links for the day 31 December 2015

…Muhammad Azeem and Mukhtar Ahmad, both in their 20s and from Gujrat, were caught Sept. 20 by agents south of San Diego and just over the international border from Tijuana. When agents checked their identities through databases, they got hits on both of them: Mr. Ahmad popped up as an associate of a known or suspected terrorist, while Mr. Azeem’s information had been shared by a foreign government for intelligence purposes. …

Salon Scrubs Story Of ‘Anti-Muslim’ Arson Arrest In Houston (After Finding Out Was Muslim Arrested)…

There is certainly a role which can be played by state lawmakers to at the very least slow the expansion of the federal government and its programs. …

Oklahoma had more earthquakes in 2015 than every state combined, including Hawaii but excluding massive Alaska. …

About 190 workers, most of them immigrants from Somalia, have been fired from a meat packing and distribution plant on Colorado's Eastern Plains for walking off the job to protest a workplace prayer dispute.… representatives of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) negotiated on their behalf.…

…On this day in 1879 Thomas Edison demonstrated incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey. In 2007 Kate Upton's RINO Uncle (ACU 72) pushed through laws that outlawed the bulbs in the US. An act of shear stupidity. The amount of energy saved is miniscule unless you were operating a huge factory with millions of lights.…