Blog Heap of Links for the day 30 July 2016

Thousands Of Turkish Forces Surround U.S. Base At Incirlik Airbase, Block Access/Exit…UPDATE: Report Of Erdogan Islamist Protesters Outside U.S. Consulate In Adana, Also At Incirlik, Military Police Keeping Them Out…

Hillary Clinton has made clear she intends to dramatically raise taxes on the American people if elected. She has proposed an income tax increase, a business tax increase, a death tax increase, a capital gains tax increase, a tax on stock trading, an "Exit Tax" and more (see below). Her planned net tax increase on the American people is at least $1 trillion over ten years, based on her campaign’s own figures.…

16 PEOPLE have been killed in a hot air balloon crash near Austin, Texas in one of the deadliest balloon accidents on record. The balloon caught fire before hitting the ground near Lockhart, south of the city of Austin.…

…Sitting about half a mile from Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed, I got a whirlwind course in Liberal History 101.…

A chance meeting at the Republican National Convention solved a 15-year-old mystery that began on the morning of September 11, 2001.…

A Shawnee, Oklahoma pup undergoes emergency surgery after swallowing several rubber duckies…

…Conducting the first large-scale, genome-wide analyses of ancient human remains from the Near East, an international team led by Harvard Medical School has illuminated the genetic identities and population dynamics of the world’s first farmers.

The study reveals three genetically distinct farming populations living in the Near East at the dawn of agriculture 12,000 to 8,000 years ago: two newly described groups in Iran and the Levant and a previously reported group in Anatolia, in what is now Turkey.

The findings… also suggest that agriculture spread in the Near East at least in part because existing groups invented or adopted farming technologies, rather than because one population replaced another.…

…I started to wonder how long it would take for the cops to arrive. Would it matter? Somebody had called the cops, right? I heard walking in the hallway. I gave a smile and a nod to the children. I don't know why, and I didn't know who was walking in the hallway.

All was quiet. That was a good sign, right? No. It was too quiet.

At that crucial moment, it occurred to me that the only way for me to have even a chance of protecting myself and my children against an armed intruder was with a gun.…

Courts dealt setbacks to Republican efforts in three states to restrict voting, blocking a North Carolina law requiring photo identification, loosening a similar measure in Wisconsin and halting strict citizenship requirements in Kansas.…

UK fears ISIS drone attacks…
France: Calls for an ‘Israeli-like’ approach to security, terror…
FBI director: Crushing Isis in Syria risks releasing ‘terrorists diaspora’ into the West…

EBL: Hillary Clinton’s Acceptance Speech Was Powerful…Like Ambien…
American Thinker: What If An Anti-American Cult Had A Convention?…
This Ain’t Hell: Democrats Convinced Their Gun Control Message Can Win…

Oldie but goodie: Euclid Cannot Explain a Hamburger…
Top Homeland Security Dem: We Should ‘Not Close Our Borders’…
Even those who oppose Trump know he will win…

Using the slogan “Merkel must go!”, thousands of German anti-immigration activists are calling for a demonstration tomorrow in Berlin. A coalition of groups is planning to gather in Washington Square at 3pm for a rally.

In other news, the Venezuelan government has issued a decree requiring employees of both public and private corporations to work in the fields, a desperate attempt to ease the country’s severe food shortage.…

…Today is Saturday, July 30, 2016. On this day in 1932 Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees premiered, it was the first film to use the three color Technicolor process.