Blog Heap of Links for the day 28 June 2016

Three Muslim suicide bombers have launched a ‘major, co-ordinated’ attack at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport, spraying bullets into crowds of terrified passengers and security personnel before blowing themselves up, injuring more than 140 people and leaving a death toll expected to rise to 50. …

The U.S. House Select Committee on Benghazi released its final report on Tuesday morning, comprising some 800 pages of investigations and conclusions that suggest former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration were derelict in their duty to protect American diplomats from the most significant terror attack on the U.S. since Sep. 11, 2001.

The report also details how the Obama administration contrived to misinform the public about the cause of the attack.…

A head-on collision involving two freight trains caused several box cars to derail and erupt in flames in the Texas Panhandle on Tuesday, injuring an unknown amount of people and leading authorities to evacuate people who live nearby.… Billy Brown, a farmer who lives in the area, said he saw a fireball erupt after the collision. … "I don't know how anyone survived," Brown said. "It's terrible. I've seen a number of train wrecks but I've never seen one like this."…

Mack Rice, the composer of '60s hit "Mustang Sally" and co-writer of the Staple Singers' landmark "Respect Yourself" has died in Detroit. He was 82.

Laura Rice told The Associated Press that her husband died at their home Monday of complications from Alzheimer's disease.…

Proof Positive: Trump Serve Man…
American Thinker: Why Trump Frightens The GOP Illuminati…
Megan McArdle: Trump Bets It All On The Brand…

…According to 7th Circuit Judge Richard Posner in a post published to Slate, U.S. judges should stop studying the Constitution.

“I see absolutely no value to a judge of spending decades, years, months, weeks, day, hours, minutes, or seconds studying the Constitution, the history of its enactment, its amendments, and its implementation,”…

…A U.S. government security officer serving at the U.S. Special Mission in Benghazi prior to the September 11, 2012 attacks, warned his superiors that lack of adequate security at the compound made serving there a “suicide mission.”

The officer further predicted to his superiors “that there was a very good chance that everybody here was going to die.”…

The Guardian: 69m children will die of preventable causes, says Unicef…
North Korea says entire army 'waiting' for instructions…
Rio police protest lack of salaries, toilet paper…

With Guest Dr. Bill Warner… Happy Independence Day to our friends over in Great Britain. The historical significance of this is huge. Far-Left ideology has failed again.…

I have lots — and I do mean lots — of interesting links for you today. Before I start, though, I want to address a point I read from someone worried about what Brexit and Trump mean.…

Why Brexit did Europe a favor…
24 crazy pictures of micro-apartments around the world…
Dem Party Platform Calls For Prosecuting Global Warming Skeptics…

In a surprising move, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan apologized to Russian President Vladimir Putin for the downing of a Russian military jet over Turkey last year. Mr. Erdogan seems to have felt the pinch of Russian sanctions and the increasing international isolation of Turkey, because he has also mended fences with Israel.

In other news, the South African treasury ordered President Jacob Zuma to repay more than half a million dollars of government funds that he used for improvements on his private residence.…

Jan Brewer: ‘I’m Fed Up’ With All Republicans Being Treated Like Bigots, Racists…
US Customs and Border Protection wants to ask for your “online presence” at the border…
Dem Party Platform Calls For Prosecuting Global Warming Skeptics…

SCOTUS strikes another 2nd Amendment blow…
Presumed W VA drowning victims found alive…
Cuba flips off USA…

…On this day in 1978 the Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bared race quota systems in college admissions. But they muddied the waters by saying "diversity" could be a factor in preferences. So what did all these liberal organizations do? All those race "quotas" turned magically into goals for diversity and nothing changed. …