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

 
The Saints of Auschwitz ~ As the world commemorates the liberation of the death camp, remember also that among those killed at Auschwitz were two Catholic saints, St. Maximilian Marie Kolbe and St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein, a Jewish convert to Catholicism).

 
Putin Helped Fund Sierra Club and Center for American Progress ~ And believe me, it’s not because he’s a tree hugger. Follow the rubles.
 
Global Warming So Bad Great Lakes Need Another Icebreaker ~ Reality intrudes on climate alarmism. Just more evidence that the entire movement is a crock ~ ‘Settled Science’ of Global Warning Based on False Assumptions.
 

Obama’s National Field Director Running Anti-Netanyahu Election Campaign The O’Ministration is actually undermining Netanyahu’s reelection?! Hey President Obama! Hands Off Israel’s Elections!

The words of the great, late Prime Minister Menachem Begin ring loudly when he told the United States ambassador to Israel that “Israel was (and is) no “vassal state” or a “banana republic.”
If America was quiet about Islamic terror in France, America should also be quiet about the democratic elections in Israel.

 
ICE: Transgender Illegals Guaranteed ‘Right to Hormone Therapy’ in Detention ~ Are you kidding me?! Why do illegals – who aren’t American citizens – have any “rights” except, maybe, Miranda rights? And where is the we-the-taxpayers’ right to say “hell no!”?

 
Venezuelan Security Head: Chávez Died Months Before Official Announcement ~ Weekend at Hugo’s? Leamsy Salazar recently defected to the U.S. from Venezuela – the highest-ranking military official ever to do so. He claims that ~

… deceased dictator Hugo Chávez Frías died months before the official announcement of his death, hidden from the public eye by current Venezuelan leaders who used his name to pass legislation convenient for them under Chávez’s name.

The woes of the Venezuelan people may just be starting.

 
Sharyl Attkisson: If You Cross Obama Admin They Will Treat You Like “Enemies Of The State” ~ How Stalinesque. Eye-opening video of Attkisson, former CBS investigative correspondent, testifying at the confirmation hearing for Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch.

 
Exclusive: The story you haven’t yet heard about Bowe Bergdahl’s desertion ~ The truth was out there all along – the mainstream media propaganda machine just doggedly ignored it.

 
Iraqi priests work to save historic Christian writings from Islamic State ~ Smuggling manuscripts to safety before they’re destroyed by the neo-barbarian hordes ~

The archives of the Dominican order in Iraq are a testimony to the Christian presence in Iraq, which stretches nearly 2,000 years in cities such as Mosul and Bakhdida, which are now controlled by Islamic State.

 
Mark Levin: You Cannot Have This EPA and a Constitution ~ CNS News interview with “The Great One,” in which he explains how the unelected federal bureaucracy is unconstitutionally attempting to control every aspect of our lives.
 
Why is a Marxist Running Detroit’s Economic Recovery? ~ Carol O’Cleireacain, Detroit’s Deputy Mayor for Economic Policy, Planning & Strategy has a long history with the Democratic Socialists of America (an amalgam of mainly former Students for a Democratic Society and Communist Party USA members). Great. Communism is just the sort of “hope and change” Detroit needs right now.