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

 
Supporting Donald Trump: If You Can’t Beat Liberals, Join Them? ~ I totally agree with Peter Heck’s analysis, not that any of the Trumpeteers care ~

… as refreshing as Trump’s boorishness towards these irritating engines of media manipulation and political sophistication may be, it doesn’t erase this one critical morsel of truth: Trump is not a conservative.

 
Virginia Delegate Gives Gut-Wrenching Testimony About Soldier Who Beat Down Afghan Molester ~ This tragic case serves as a vivid illustration of the America’s new ungodly values in our Obamaland of hopeless change. We’ve become so non-judgemental we’re incapable of discerning good from evil ~

If the military successfully discharges Sgt. Martland, it’s unclear how troops will confront evil in the future knowing that in addition to the confrontation, they have to constantly calculate whether standing up for what’s right will result in them being purged by their own superiors.

Three Washington state officials have resigned in wake of prison early-release error ~ Unfortunately, not after at least two innocent citizens had to lose their lives. How many more ticking time bombs are out there?

Bleeding hearts bemoan the large number of people currently spending time in the U.S. prison system, but it’s not like we rounded them all up and threw them in the gulag. The country doesn’t need weaker sentencing guidelines; we need tougher character development.

 
Four Texas Medical Schools Caught Spends Hundreds of Thousands Buying Aborted Baby Parts ~ More horrors that the mainstream media refuses to report ~

Houston attorney Briscoe Cain obtained documentation of these transactions via a Freedom of Information Act request yielding evidence of a disturbing trend among Texas medical school ostensibly committed to teaching the values of Hippocratic medicine. One school official in El Paso even insisted that the researchers at his school “cherish life” in spite of the horrifying reality that they purchase the bodies of children electively and horrifically killed in abortion. […]
 
“The documents for Texas Tech University Health Science Center El Paso are some of the most troubling of those we uncovered,” Cain continued. “The emails between this school and ABR reveal that the reason the school purchased second trimester fetal thymus, liver, and spleen was to conduct humanized mice research–the implantation of human tissue into genetically modified lab mice.” Cain explained that this grotesque research practice requires an “unadulterated specimen” from the baby – meaning that the baby was born alive and left to die, or was carefully dismembered by the abortionist without any feticidal agent or anesthesia administered to the child prior to being eviscerated.

 
Obama Refuses to Hit ISIS’s Libyan Capital ~ How much longer do we have to put up with this pro-terrorist POTUS? [334 days!]

 
Great. Now that the U.S. is reestablishing air travel with Cuba, Hezbollah can take a puddle-jumper direct to Miami: U.S. Removed Cuba from Terrorist List After Hezbollah Opened Base on Island(!) In the real world we used to live in I believe we would have considered this treasonous behavior…
By the way, Marco Rubio’s response to Anderson Cooper on the Cuban question (Wed. Feb 17th) was excellent.

 
NASA Study Concludes Global Warming Is Actually Slowing Sea Level Rise Huh? ~

“What we didn’t realize until now is that over the past decade, changes in the global water cycle more than offset the losses that occurred from groundwater pumping, causing the land to act like a sponge — at least temporarily,” Reager said.

There clearly needs to be a whole lot more research done before we can sort out the complexities of earth’s atmosphere and weather cycles. But that won’t stop the alarmists from trying to destroy capitalism and sent us all back the middle ages – in the name of “climate change.”
 
What Happened in West Texas? Questions Remain About Judge Scalia’s Death ~ US Defense Watch poses dozens of questions… Will we ever get answers to any of them? ~ Was Scalia Murdered? Forget “Conspiracy Theory.” This Is Real.

 
After 9/11, Trump Took Money Marked for Small Businesses ~ Ho hum. Seems character is no longer an issue when it comes to selecting presidential candidates. Maybe he felt somehow justified since he decided 911 was Bush’s fault.