Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:

 
Former Weather Underground radical who spent 22 years in prison for heist that left 3 dead now teaches at Columbia ~ Only in an “Obamamerica.” See also – Michele Malkin’s post – Academia hearts the Weather Underground: Kathy Boudin at Columbia and NYU
 
Where did all the money go? How $700 million in Katrina relief money went missing ~ Your federal government at work. Can’t wait to send them more $$ on April 15th huh?
 
First Couple hosts celeb-filled concert amid sequestration ~ We the People OWN the house, but only the ELITE are allowed in.
 
Democrats Now Pushing Mandatory Liability Insurance for Gun Owners ~ So let’s get this straight – soon we’ll have to pay to exercise our 2nd Amendment right to self-defense?
Wasn’t the Bill of Rights already bought and paid for with the blood of patriots?!
 
Five Reasons Government Subsidies For Films Are A Bad Idea ~ Article, at Michigan Capitol Confidential, is specifically about Michigan, but the “bad idea” is applicable countrywide.
 

When Men Forsake God, Tyranny Always Follows ~ Excellent article by Chris Banescu at the American Thinker ~

It is no coincidence that advocates and followers of Fascism, Nazism, and Communism — all secular, immoral, atheistic, and godless ideologies — enslaved and murdered the greatest number of people in the history of mankind. All produced some of the most cruel, violent, and evil tyrants this world has ever known — despots who persecuted their own citizens, slaughtered the innocent, destroyed their own people, and brought calamities to other nations. All subjugated the liberty and property of men to the absolute power and control of the state.

If we look around at America today, it seems pretty obvious that it’s too late for most of the sheeple to figure out this critical lesson from history. We can only watch now as tyranny rises.