Blog Heap of Links for the day 2 May 2016

An ISIS cell in France threatened new rocket attacks on passenger jets and a new Charlie Hebdo-style massacre in chilling undercover video filmed by a journalist who infiltrated the group.…

…video has emerged showing George Mason University students… signing a petition to legalize abortion after birth. … demanded that lawmakers legalize "fourth trimester" abortions.… One concerned student asked if the procedure would "cause harm to the child."

"Well the child wouldn't be there anymore," responded Joseph. "It's abortion."

The student then happily signed the petition.…

The organization that helped 29-year-old Brittany Maynard achieve physician-assisted suicide in November of 2014 is now targeting “people of color” in a new initiative that seeks to “expand end-of-life options” for blacks, Latinos, and Asians in America.…

…Paul McCartney brought his One on One Tour to Little Rock on April 30, and paid tribute to two of the women who inspired the Beatles classic “Blackbird” while he was in town.

As McCartney explained during a Nashville show in 2010, the band was moved by the American civil rights movement during the ’50s and ’60s, and McCartney composed “Blackbird” while thinking specifically of the Little Rock Nine…

…The two events may seem mostly unrelated, however, for the writer of this story, perhaps there really is a balance that must be struck. She spared Arthur Weasley, but exchanged his life for another character’s, whose end would come near the conclusion of the series.…

Micah Tyler

…The most important national treasure we have is our sovereignty, and from that our citizenship. This is not just about the rhetoric of “building a wall” but we must piece by piece, issue by issue decipher the cancer that is illegal immigration in the United States. This has nothing to do with xenophobia or racism. Either you believe we are a nation or you do not, simple.

Illegal immigration is a multi-headed hydra that adversely affects many operational systems of the United States. It affects our taxation, our education, our healthcare, our national security, and our domestic criminality — as with President Obama releasing nearly 20,000 criminal illegal immigrants, which folks is redundant– meaning if you are here “illegally” you’ve already committed a crime — kinda redundant wouldn’t you say?…

I’m back, and still playing beat the clock when I blog, so let me get right down to business…

…Turkish military kills 63 IS fighters in Syria…
…Afghan forces begin mission to break Taliban’s grip on highway…
…Puerto Rico defaults on $422 million…

Today’s challenge is to see how many articles I can bring to your attention in the 20 minutes before I head off for the dojo to punch and kick my political blues away.…

…Walt Whitman on a healthy diet…
…If you like your pistol, you can keep it…
…The End Is Near…

…U.S. leads 25 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq, Syria…
…South Korea warns of risk North may abduct citizens abroad…
…Brussels airport departure hall reopens after deadly bombings…

Trump’s Team starting to focus on unifying the party…
Hostile Protesters Confront Bill Clinton in West Virginia…
Negative perceptions of Islam cause distress to Muslims…

…Good work if you can get it…
…This couple appreciates global warming…
…It's who you know, isn't it?…

…On this day in 1611 the King James Bible was published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker.…

The OTHER reason why it matters that Ted Cruz made sure all the delegates like him.
This tweet by Patrick Ruffini highlights something important, I think…