Blog Heap of Links for the day 29 February 2016

The well-known American chanteuse Madonna may be banned from the Philippines for draping herself in the country’s flag at a show in Manila last week. It is against Philippine law to use the national flag as an article of clothing. Violators may receive up to a year in jail.

In other news, a female police officer was shot and killed in Prince William County, Virginia, while answering a call about a domestic dispute during her first day on the job. Two of her fellow officers were seriously wounded. The suspected perpetrator had already killed his wife before police arrived at his house.…

…Today is a leap day. Leap days occur in years that are divisible by 4. It is added to Feb because under the old Roman calendar February was the last month of the year and they added days to the calendar during that month. …

…Planned Parenthood… promising to spend a seven-figure sum to aid Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in Michigan, Virginia, and Texas.… will use videos, digital ads, phone banks, and in-home mailers in support of Clinton.…

Thousands of contributions to Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ campaign in January violated federal campaign finance laws, election regulators said on Thursday.… contributions from foreign nationals… unregistered political committees… donors who exceeded the $2,700 per-election limit.…

Republicans woo “sagebrush rebels” in Nevada…
Newt Gingrich to Fox News: You created Trump…