Blog Heap of Links for the day 13 June 2016

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Wars and Rumors

…For the entirely of the Obama presidency, the Left focuses obsessively on sex and drugs, gun control, and abandoning reason, whether this abandonment takes the form of their faith in the failed gods of climate change; their insistence that sex, which is embedded in our DNA, is a mere societal construct; or their refusal to recognize that there is an enemy massing at the gate.…

Bookworm's reflections on the Orlando massacre
1:22am CDT Mon 2016 Jun 13 :MW
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Spiritual Matters

…here are two ways to watch the news without despair…

1:20am CDT Mon 2016 Jun 13 :MW
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Breitbart is Here

Nightmouse

Hitler birth house could be demolished…
Newt blasts Obama, Leaders: ‘Willfully’ Not Telling Truth on Islamic Terrorism…
Facebook BANS Pamela Geller from posting in wake of Orlando Nightclub Jihad Massacre…

News links with summaries
11:52am CDT Mon 2016 Jun 13 :MW
Gates of Vienna Newsfeed

When he addressed the nation this afternoon about this morning’s terror attack in Orlando that killed 50 people at a gay nightclub, President Barack Hussein Obama did not mention JIM. However, he did emphasize the urgent need for stricter gun control, so that senseless tragedies like this one may be prevented in the future.

In other news, five people were injured at an airport in Shanghai when a man threw a homemade bomb made out of a beer bottle at a check-in counter. After the attack, the alleged perpetrator cut himself in the neck with a knife, and is now in critical condition in the hospital.…

News links with summaries
11:49am CDT Mon 2016 Jun 13 :MW

ISIL attack on army barracks near Fallujah kills dozens…
Man hurls explosive device at Shanghai airport, then attempts suicide…
U.S. authorities probe whether anyone helped gunman in nightclub rampage…

News headline links
11:47am CDT Mon 2016 Jun 13 :MW

Seattle University Dean Placed on Leave for Recommending a Book…
Obama: ‘We’ are to blame, not Islamic terrorism, for massacre…
ACLU lawyers blame 'Christian right'…
London is now a Muslim city…

News and views links
11:43am CDT Mon 2016 Jun 13 :MW
Geezer

…On this day in 1740 Georgia colony governor James Oglethorpe began an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine. During various "deals and transfers" along with the US war on the Seminoles who aided Great Britain during the war of 1812 the US acquired more and more of Florida. In 1821 Spain ceded the remainder of Florida to the US.

Vic's morning report, news headline links, and history lesson, stuck at the end of the overnight thread again, since the morning thread was too late for him.
9:11am CDT Mon 2016 Jun 13 :MW

US Election 2016

Hillary, Tense

…Huma has been described variously as Hillary’s “body woman,” a sort of glorified go-to personal maid, gentle confidant, and by others as an Islamic spy. She may be all of these things, because as we shall see, Huma Abedin has an interesting and complex career history.…

11:53am CDT Mon 2016 Jun 13 :MW