Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:
Miracle Triplets Start School Four Years After Mom Ignored Advice to Abort Them ~ A Manchester, England couple chose life – and was blessed with three healthy children. 
Blood-stained hypocrisy of Hollywood’s violence profiteers ~ As long as there’s money to be made from it, Gangsta-rap culture will continue to promote anti-social behavior and exacerbate situations like the Ferguson rioting.
Higher Fast-Food Wages: Higher Fast-Food Prices ~ For the economically illiterate; a concise explanation of how imposing false constraints on the free market erodes freedom, choices – and prosperity.
$21.5 Million In Marijuana Taxes Just Went Up In Smoke ~ Maybe Colorado legislators were the ones smoking weed – their plan to generate state revenues was way off target ~
In addition to medical marijuana, Colorado legalized recreational use, trumpeting the tax revenue it knew would be piling in. In Colorado, there’s a 2.9% sales tax and a 10% marijuana sales tax. Plus, there is a 15% excise tax on the average market rate of retail marijuana. If you add that up, it’s 27.9% […]
…turns out the $33.5 million Colorado projected to collect in the first six months of 2014 was a little too rosy. It’s now the next morning, so to speak, and Colorado is missing $21.5M in pot taxes!
The People’s Cube is having fun with this story ~ Colorado Citizens Ordered to Smoke More Pot 😀
Democrats More Afraid of Global Warming Than ISIS ~ Proof that many on the Left really do live in a reality-free zone. To continue falling for the climate change myth you have to ignore all evidence to the contrary, like this news ~ ‘The Arctic sea ice spiral of death seems to have reversed’
The Obama-Lite Side of Rand Paul – Remaking the GOP as a left-leaning party? ~ The senator seems to have inherited his father’s radical isolationist tendencies, at least he’s becoming more vocal about them. Seems to be embracing Barack Obama-style leftist appeasement ~
The very same far-left view of the world that, in conveying an image of American weakness, has provoked war and/or chaos everywhere from Ukraine to Syria, Iraq and the American southern border, with various actors believing America has made up its mind to withdraw from the world. Unable or unwilling to even defend its own border.
“We’re tired of war”? Doubtless true of every American. But invoking this Obama-esque line of thought indicates that Senator Paul agrees with the most left-wing president in American history, sharing the self-evidently disastrous belief that because Americans are tired of war they can simply declare victory and come home. Once the last American stationed somewhere abroad has his boots on American ground, America’s enemies will then just go away. Or so goes the Obama/far-left view. Which, apparently, Senator Paul agrees with.
British Police Arrested Parents for Trying to Rescue Their Daughters from Islamic Rape Gangs ~ This is a horrific story from Rotherham, England, but because it involves the religion-which-must-not-be-named it’s not getting the attention is should – even in Great Britain ~
Daily Mail—The sexual abuse of about 1,400 children at the hands of Asian men went unreported for 16 years because staff feared they would be seen as racist, a report said today.
(Asian = Pakistani = Muslim)
If the perps were say… oh – Catholic priests – imagine the media firestorm over this scandal.
Doctor Kills Depressed Woman in Euthanasia, Doesn’t Tell Family Until Next Day ~ Apparently in Belgium they’ve discovered a radical new “cure” for depression.
How sad that human life is so easily discarded these days.
Joan Rivers: The Entertainer ~ Wonderful tribute from Peggy Noonan, gave me a whole new respect for the comedienne.
