Blog Heap of Links for the day 25 January 2016

…An Israeli man… fought off two knife-wielding terrorists with a supermarket cart, preventing them from entering the store… West Bank settlement of Beit Horon… Two Israeli women were stabbed and injured in the attack, one critically. The terrorists then tried to enter the store, were blocked by Shalem, fled, and were killed by a security guard after a short chase…

Iraeli security forces arrested 18-year-old bomb-making twin sisters from Shwaika, outside the Palestinian city of Tulkarem in the West Bank last month… discovered pipe bombs and other explosive materials in the home of Diana and Nadia Hawila… found knives, Hamas headbands and “equipment for riots…”

Four suicide attacks killed at least 29 people and wounded 65 in Bodo, Cameroon, which is a popular target for Boko Haram. No group has taken responsibility for the bloodshed, but officials suspect Boko Haram militants. …

For weeks I have been asking, where are the videos? Now we know. The iron hand of Merkel erased them. The German people have no shot at overcoming this invasion unless they rebel. Merkel’s war is a stealth nazism — importing a hostile army by the millions.…

A Texas grand jury investigating Planned Parenthood has instead indicted two anti-abortion activists who made videos of the group … David Daleiden, founder of the Center for Medical Progress, was indicted on a felony charge of tampering with a governmental record and a misdemeanor count related to purchasing human organs… Sandra Merritt, who also worked for the center, was indicted on a charge of tampering with a governmental record …

A bill introduced in the West Virginia House of Delegates this month would block unconstitutional foreign deployments of the state’s national guard troops, effectively restoring the Founders’ framework for state-federal balance on the Guard.…

Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines attacked…

Just because it’s Monday …

For more than a half-century, David Stoliar remained a silent witness to the worst civilian maritime disaster of World War II, the only survivor among nearly 800 Jews fleeing the Holocaust in Romania aboard a refugee ship that was barred from Palestine, interned by Turkey for months, set adrift without power and torpedoed by a Soviet submarine in the Black Sea in 1942.… The doomed voyage of the Struma might have been a forgotten footnote to Holocaust history had it not been for Mr. Stoliar’s survival and his willingness years later to attest to the indifference and brutal decisions that put Palestine out of reach and led to the deaths of hundreds at the hands of nominal allies against Hitler.…

Claremore, Okla - In the past seven years, the Wild Heart Ranch has rescued 12 Eagles in Eastern Oklahoma and exactly half have died due to lead poisoning in the wild. …from tools hunters and fishers use within the wild… many species are contaminating one another…

“A lot of people don’t really realize that their choice to save a few pennies and purchasing lead rather than steel or brass or tungsten is actually putting our nation’s symbol at a risk for lead toxicity and death…”

Germany is still receiving a flow of about 2,000 new migrants every day, but about 10% of those are being denied entry because they are not fleeing war or persecution. Meanwhile, a Belgian resort town is considering banning migrants from its public swimming pools after teenage girls were molested by asylum seekers.

In other news, Hong Kong is experiencing its coldest winter in sixty years, with frost appearing on the upper slopes of nearby mountains. …

…During a Senate hearing on President Obama’s use of executive orders to curb the constitutional authority granted by the Second Amendment, Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski ?said she didn’t want to get bogged down with “constitutional arguments.”…

…The Trump-Cruz Bromance is over–in fact the likelihood of a Cruz VP now, is slim to none….and it’s time to chose a side. And I’m sure it’s no surprise I choose Trump.…

…On this day in 1996 Billy Bailey became the last person to be hanged in the US. And no, this murderer had nothing to do with the song which was published in 1902.…

If one criticizes Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, he or she can expect a full thrashing on Twitter.

Here are just some who have been the target of Trump’s Twitter attacks…since Tuesday…

…According to the Washington Post, when Marco Rubio was eighteen, he was cited for drinking beer in a public park.… the Rubio campaign put out a hilarious ad in response…

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry is endorsing Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). …

Gun control is a job for federal office-holders rather than state governments, Democrat presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said during the January 24 airing of Face the Nation.…