Blog Heap of Links for the day 29 March 2016

Patty Duke, who won a best supporting actress Oscar for her performance as Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker and starred as two cousins on her own sitcom, died Tuesday, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. She was 69.…

…Previously unpublished documents have revealed the scale of a plot by the media mogul William Randolph Hearst to discredit Orson Welles and destroy Citizen Kane, the 1941 film about the rise and fall of the fictional newspaper proprietor Charles Foster Kane.…

…Today, Oklahoma Wesleyan University finds itself before the Supreme Court of the United States, forced to defend its employees, who, because of their religious convictions, simply want the freedom to choose healthcare that is consistent with their faith and their church’s doctrine; employees, many of whom are women, who simply want to exercise their choice not to participate in an insurance plan that includes abortion inducing drugs. We consider it an injustice for anyone to suggest they should have to do otherwise.…

The Secret Service says that it doesn't matter how many people sign on to a petition that calls for guns to be allowed at the Republican National Convention, they will not allow it. A petition at Change.org has received more than 49,000 signatures calling for open carry to be allowed at the RNC convention in Cleveland this July.…

• Bison coming 'home' to Montana Indian reservation - Cool
• "No kill’ animal shelters have unleashed an epidemic of suffering. Is a life of misery any better than a quick death?
• How the Government Stole Sex - Screw morality—the state is now intervening in American bedrooms under the mantle of stopping sex discrimination.…

American Schools May Dump Algebra
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Chinese-made QQ Browser Unsafe…

…On this day in 1886 Dr. John Pemberton brewed the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta.

I have said from the outset that I would vote for Donald Trump if he were chosen as the Republican nominee. I am contemptuous of much of what he does; I don't trust what he says, and I have no reason to believe that he actually holds conservative values. But, if Trump becomes the GOP nominee, he will be the only alternative to the left ruining America for another four years.…

…After the failed Obama-Clinton Admin, Americans want leadership. I endorse @TedCruz, a principled constitutional conservative who can win.
— Scott Walker (@ScottWalker) March 29, 2016…