Blog Heap of Links for the day 16 March 2016

The animation was created by the Imperial War Museum to mark the re-opening of the American Air Museum. It shows the progress of the Allied strategic bombing campaign against the Germans from 1939 to 1945 …

The conservative Judicial Crisis Network… plans to spend at least $2 million on an advertising campaign to oppose Judge Merrick Garland’s nomination… JCN chief counsel Carrie Severino said… Judge Merrick’s record on the bench since 1997 “leads to the conclusion that he would vote to reverse one of Justice Scalia’s most important opinions, D.C. vs. Heller, which affirmed that the Second Amendment confers an individual right to keep and bear arms.”…

Omar al-Shishani, one of the top military leaders of the Islamic State, has reportedly died of wounds sustained in a U.S. air strike. The report is denied by ISIS, who say that their leader was not even injured. Mr. al-Shishani, a Chechen, was well-known for attracting new recruits from the Caucasus to fight in the jihad in Iraq and Syria.

In other news, in the latest Brexit polls, 52% of Britons who are likely to vote want the UK to leave the EU.…

Why Only Apple Users Can Trash Their Files

Social Work Needs Heterodoxy

MA: Battle rages over Lyme disease bill
"Chronic Lyme" infection exists only in the imagination …

• Super Tuesday election results
• The NFL admits link between football and CTE
• 4 families vehemently disagree with Hillary …

…On this day in 1802 the Army Corps of Engineers was established with the initial purpose to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point. A rare government agency that achieved its purpose.…

Senior GOP official Curly Haugland: We choose the nominee, not the voters…

Halperin and McKinnon have dinner with the Republican Establishment where they discuss how Donald Trump is interrupting the GOP cycle given that he is not as informed, articulate, and poised as the rest of the party.…