Blog Heap of Links for the day 27 February 2016

A bakery owned by a Christian family in Longview, Texas is being deluged with threats and hate mail after the owners declined to bake a wedding cake for a gay marriage.… The bakery won’t make any tobacco- or alcohol-related cakes, for example, and no “risqué” cakes of any kind.… does not mean that they will not serve gay customers, but merely that they will not make a cake celebrating a ceremony they believe is sinful.…

A Newton woman is facing a federal charge after authorities said she is suspected of giving Cedric Ford the two weapons he used to shoot 17 people in Hesston on Thursday.

Sarah Jo Hopkins, 28, is the mother of Ford’s 4-year-old daughter and 2-year-old son…

According to the affidavit, Hopkins said during an interview with law enforcement Friday that she:
▪ Was in a relationship with Ford and lived with him in Newton for period of time
▪ Bought both weapons at A Pawn Shop…
▪ Moved out of their home in July 2015 but left the guns with Ford
▪ Retrieved the guns from the house with help of Newton Police less than a month later “because she had purchased the weapons and they belonged to her”
▪ Gave the guns back to Ford later that month “because Ford had threatened her.…"

Rick Tyler, who was the communications director for Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign before being fired four days ago, has joined MSNBC as a political contributor.…

Melissa Harris-Perry has made the bold decision to boycott her own program.… Sadly, nobody else will notice.…

Silly girl rolling around her dog bed.…

The California Highway patrol spent four hours trying to capture a runaway unicorn.…

…The officers, reportedly under orders from the administration, did nothing to prevent the protesters from obstructing access to the auditorium. Let me repeat: a state-run institution apparently told state-paid police officers to allow protesters to violate the free speech and free assembly rights of conservatives and those who wish to hear them. In the United States.

By the time we arrived, hundreds of students had mobbed virtually every entrance and exit. And all hell was breaking loose…

Those who wanted to hear me speak were blocked completely. A line eventually formed outside a secret back entrance, where students were sneaked in three and four at a time – a smuggling ring of free speech.…

Several of the nearly two-dozen veterans charitable organizations that were promised donations by Republican presidential front runner Donald Trump have yet to receive any money nearly a month after Trump first made the pledge, the FOX Business Network has learned.… at least three, and possibly more, of the 22 charities haven’t received any money yet, according to interviews conducted by FOX Business. Meanwhile, seven of the 22 charities told FOX Business they have received checks totaling $650,000, while the remaining organizations either declined to say whether or not they received the money or didn’t return repeated calls for comment.…

1. Trump is humble, and he’s not too proud to admit it. …

During History’s Pivotal Moments, Ted Cruz Has Always Been There for the Second Amendment… if he were to gain the nomination, we just don’t know where Trump would be on the Second Amendment.… Gun Owners of America urges you, in the strongest possible terms, to support Ted Cruz for president.