Blog Heap of Links for the day 1 March 2016

The government of Cameroon announced this weekend that it had waged a siege on the town of Kumshe [a Boko Haram stronghold] alongside Nigerian forces, killing dozens of Boko Haram terrorists and liberating up to 850 hostages.…

Predictions of doom for the Republican Party are all the rage in the media, but the real story of this election cycle (so far) is the collapse of Democrat turnout. Some of this is no doubt due to the difficulty in generating enthusiasm after more than 7 years of foreign policy disasters and historically low economic growth under Obama. Another factor is the sheer unappealing nature of Hillary Clinton. …even Bernie’s enthusiastic crowds may be driving away more moderate Democrats.…

During an impromptu February 29 news conference St. Landry’s Parrish Sheriff’s Captain Clay Higgins resigned his post, citing his refusal to cower to street gangs or “kneel to a…wanna-be black activist.”

His announcement came less than two weeks after Higgins released a video that named alleged members of the Gremlin street gang and referring to them as “animals” and “heathens” whom he was going to hunt down. …

A TV crew for the Australian program “60 Minutes” was attacked by culture-enrichers in Rinkeby, a suburb of Stockholm. The Australians were visiting Rinkeby to investigate the subject of immigration into Sweden, and the residents of Rinkeby — most of whom have a “migration background” — took exception to what the outsiders were doing, and attacked them. They ran over the foot of a cameraman with a vehicle, but he was not seriously injured.

In other news, a Christian student at Sheffield University in England was expelled for posting a message on Facebook opposing gay marriage.…

Let’s remember him this Super Tuesday particularly as he would have so wanted to be around to see Obama booted and a conservative Republican taking his place.…

…On this day in 1781 the Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation. They proved to be too week for the US and were later scrapped for the Constitution. …

It has been almost three months since reporters traveling with Hillary Clinton have been allowed to ask the would-be president a question. According to NBC News, Clinton has not taken a single question from the traveling press corps in 87 days.…

…Sen. Ted Cruz … [asked] if he would consider accepting the vacant spot on the Supreme Court after the sudden death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia [said] … "That is not a job I'm interested in.… The job I'm interested in is appointing 3, 4, 5 Supreme Court justices, is defending the constitution."…