Blog Heap of Links for the day 3 February 2016

TEL AVIV – Three terrorists armed with a rifle, knives and an explosive device perpetuated a combined shooting and stabbing attack at Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate, one of the main entrances leading into the Old City.

Two female Border Guards and a civilian were wounded in the attack. One of the guards, identified as Hadar Cohen, 19, was critically wounded and later died from her injuries. The second guard, a 20-year-old, was seriously wounded.…

…Senate Joint Resolution 26, was authored by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). The official purpose of the bill is to authorize the use of military force against the Islamic State. However, its vague language would give Obama sweeping new controls of the U.S. military and de facto martial law powers, the very power that give authority to the chief executive to suspend elections in a time of crisis.…

I… created my own website called “I Don’t Like Bernie, Because….” The following is my first post at the new website:

Isn’t Bernie a socialist? Why, yes he is…

Nearly four decades after a Cobb County store manager was shot to death, the man who killed him has been executed.

Brandon Astor Jones, 72, became the oldest man to be put to death by the state of Georgia.…

Former President Jimmy Carter said Wednesday…

U.S. Sen. James Lankford wants to phase out federal renewable energy production tax credits by 2031, making 2019 the last year to apply for a credit. The Oklahoma Republican offered an amendment to the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2016 on the Senate floor Wednesday.…

On a tree in what's now Burma some 99 million years ago, a cousin of today's daddy longlegs… blossomed into full manhood, sporting a penis that grew to nearly half of his body length when erect.… died fully aroused, his tree-side tryst interrupted by oozing resin that entombed his body in what's now a lump of amber.…

Stan and Lois, both in their eighties, were becoming more and more forgetful. On the advice of their doctor, they began carrying small notebooks and pencils with them so they could write down things they wanted to remember.…

The world’s fattest man may have been done in by his love for energy drinks, his doctor said Tuesday. Andres Moreno, who weighed 980 pounds at his heaviest, suffered a fatal heart attack on Christmas Day…

Americans spent more on legal weed than on Cheetos and Funyuns combined last year

… Bernie is a dyed-in-the-wool grumpy old man and Donald is more a grumpy old baby in a grumpy old man’s body. … I don’t mind righteous anger. But the two of them seem less righteous and far more unhinged.…

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) is suspending his presidential campaign.… "I will continue to carry the torch for Liberty in the United States Senate and I look forward to earning the privilege to represent the people of Kentucky for another term.…"

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum ended his presidential bid on Wednesday, throwing his support behind Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.…

Watching the votes trickle in from Iowa’s Caucus Monday night, I suggested a second-place finish for Trump would be an unenjoyable experience for us all… Less than 48 hours later, Trump had a meltdown for the history books.…

…what was lost on me and probably most people was that in actually coming in first, Ted Cruz made history by being the first American of Latino extraction to win a caucus or primary in US history.… The fact that I didn’t even realize the historic nature of Cruz’s victory at all until Mark Levin mentioned it almost in passing on his program yesterday is striking in its significance.…

Losing Iowa was Donald Trump’s “volcano’s edge.” And voters finally met the man. Okay, he isn’t so much a man as he is a crybaby.

I’ve been watching the anticipated Twitter meltdown of Donald Trump following his failure to win Iowa…