Blog Heap of Links for the day 8 April 2016

…A Jewish man was stabbed in the face, hands and arms on the Bleecker Street 6 train platform early Friday morning… victim… apparently does not speak fluent English… reportedly visiting from Israel.… was wearing “traditional Hasidic clothing…” currently hospitalized in stable condition.… The incident is not currently being investigated as a hate crime.…

Hamas employs more than 1,000 operatives to excavate underground tunnels in the Gaza Strip… invests hundreds of thousands of dollars each month… To prepare for a possible future incursion with Israel…

Finally, FINALLY someone is stepping up to the plate to stop the insidious Obama release of GITMO unlawful enemy combatants.

As reported by the Washington Examiner, “Sen. Kelly Ayotte introduced legislation Tuesday that would prohibit any transfers from Guantanamo Bay through September 2017, several months past the end of President Obama’s term.…"

Republican leaders have blocked the closing of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, because they say they do not want terrorists held on United States soil. But American prisons currently hold 443 convicted terrorists, far more than the 89 men who remain imprisoned in Cuba. …

How many Muslim invaders living on welfare did the Obama Regime resettle in your state and home town in 2015?…

Fox News Senior Correspondent Geraldo Rivera argued…

A couple of Oklahoma authors have written a book called, “Gaining Wealth God's Way”. In the Bible, there are more than 2,000 verses about money. More than the number of references to faith, or prayer, money is mentioned more than any other single topic.

"He wants us to be wealthy, but humble at the same time," said author Nicole Ford. … "God never intended us to be poor…"

• Marine Corps dog Lucca was injured on tour of duty in Afghanistan in 2012
• She lost her front left leg after stepping on an explosive during operation
• Lucca had previously sniffed out thousands of IEDs, saving many lives
• She travelled from California to London to receive the Dickin Medal - the highest honor for service animals…

An entitled young punk comes to regret burning the flag that represents values far better Americans than himself died to uphold…

Michelle Malkin: The Dumbest Thing A Congresscritter Wrote This Week…
American Power: 9-Year-Old Reporter Breaks Crime News, Sparks Backlash On Parenting…
The Lonely Conservative: New York Values Ted Cruz…

Am I the only one who finds this sentence incredibly disturbing?…

In yesterday’s referendum in the Netherlands, 64% of those who voted rejected the EU’s proposed closer economic and political relationship with Ukraine. Only 32% of eligible Dutch voters participated, but that was enough to make the referendum binding. Many analysts view the vote as a rejection of the EU, and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said he was saddened by the result.

In other news, the Austrian government is expecting the number of migrants landing in Italy to double in comparison to last year’s total, which would mean at least 300,000 new arrivals in 2016. If the pressure of immigrants at the border with Italy becomes unmanageable, Austria plans to close the Brenner Pass.…

• Pakistan hit by floods and landslides
• New study debunks climate models
• Nation building, expensive & deadly…

…On this day in 1093 the Winchester Cathedral was dedicated by Walkelin.…

Will Coley is a Vice Presidential candidate, representing the Libertarian Party. He’s running alongside Darryl W. Perry, the presidential candidate. He’s not just a Vice Presidential candidate, he’s this country’s first openly Muslim Vice Presidential candidate.… Will Coley, director of Muslims for Liberty — a group that decries American exceptionalism, accuses the United States of war crimes, and espouses ostensibly anti-Israel ideology… In Tennessee… expressed concern about proposed legislation to prohibit sharia… claimed that it was indicative of the hatred conservatives feel toward Muslims.… gave local talks promoting the idea that sharia doctrine is compatible with the U.S. Constitution and went so far as to falsely proclaim that Islamic legal theory influenced American law…

…The background here is that Colorado elects its delegates in a series of congressional district conventions that take place on different days, and that Trump's pointman for the state was just fired and replaced by another guy on Tuesday.… Meanwhile, there's all sorts of drama in the DJT.… Some people excuse Trump's failings by saying "he's learning on the fly."

But is he even doing that?…

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) picks up another three delegates in Colorado’s district 7 on Thursday, with another four districts voting and state level Republican party voting this weekend.… A senior adviser with the Trump campaign told Breitbart News that among the many unpledged delegates in Colorado are those that are for Trump, but have strategically remained officially unpledged.…