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

 
Attack at Ohio State Brings US Terror Plots, Attacks to 93 Since 9/11 ~ But hey, who’s counting? Certainly not the mainstream media.

 
Vandals Destroy Trump-Supporting Veteran’s Home ~ Good Lord. Just how far are these hateful malcontents going to go? ~

A retired veteran of the U.S. Navy had his house vandalized, torched and desecrated with obscene, racist and anti-Trump graffiti on Tuesday.
 
“Definitely scary,” is how Matthew Smith described his real-life nightmare to the local ABC TV affiliate.
 
Smith, who lives in Plant City. Fla., came back to what was left of his home in this small urban center located on Interstate 4 and found his walls covered with hateful phrases. Someone had spray painted “cracker, F- Trump, not my prez, and F- yo kids.”

Faces of the $15 Minimum Wage Victims ~ The Left needs to stop trying to alter reality to fit their silly “life-must-be-fair” paradigm.

 
In ‘Terrifying’ Holland, Doctors Euthanized a Man Who Wasn’t Dying ~ Mark Langedijk wasn’t terminal, just tired of suffering from his alcoholism ~

“Holland,” said a Labour party member of Parliament responding to Langedijk’s suicide, is “a dangerous place to have any physical or mental illness, to be struggling with any life challenges, or just to differ from what they might call normal. The state-authorised killing of their citizens is out of control and is, quite frankly, terrifying.”

 
Uganda Moves To Shut For-Profit Schools Funded By Zuckerberg And Gates Over ‘Gospel Of Homosexuality’ ~ Happy to see these folks standing up to the wealthy progressives’ push for amorality ~

The government of Uganda has moved to shut down over 60 primary schools across the country over concerns that the schools are “teaching pornography” and “conveying the gospel of homosexuality” to Ugandan children. Government officials also say the schools are unsanitary and full of unqualified teachers.

Halleluiah.

 
Piano Teachers, Beware: The Feds Are Onto You ~ So now the insatiable bureaucracy can just arbitrarily regulate non-profit organizations? ~

To make work for themselves, (bureaucracies) have these models on their desks and scrounge around for instances of reality that do not conform. Maybe they are just googling around and find something objectionable. They flex their muscles by issuing menacing letters. They completely disregard the normal course of human interaction (and human decency too) to force behavior into their preferred path. Once they are finished, and lives and whole institutions are wrecked, they call it a success. They then move on to the next victim.

 
Adding More Solar And Wind Power ‘Doubles’ CO2 Emissions ~ No matter how much progressives push it and prop it up, “green” will never be the answer to our energy needs.
 
Geert Wilders: “People Who Want to Stop Me Will Have to Murder Me First” ~ Wilders, the Dutch opposition leader in on trial for “hate speech,” i.e., telling the truth about radical Islam and its intentions to conquer Europe ~

Geert Wilders’ courageous and defiant statement aimed at the corrupt political and ideological system that brought him to trial is a masterpiece of oratory. It’s one of the great speeches of the year by a political figure that the left will willfully ignore.

11 Thoughtful Gifts To Buy Instead Of Wasting Money On Cheap Crap From China ~ Joy Pullmann at The Federalist offers thoughts on America’s excessive focus on more stuff(!) and suggestions for more meaningful gift-giving ~

After all, Christmas is about gratuitous, unearned, undeserved, bountiful mercy. It’s about a gift that we desperately needed but didn’t deserve, and that transcends our wildest dreams. God is neither a miser nor a glutton, and people should also avoid those two extremes of greed. I’m just suggesting you take a few extra minutes to really think about the presents you’re buying, and why you’re buying them, and whether you can manage your time and money more optimally.

 
Students Break Out in Song During Tornado Warning ~ Encouraging story; all hope is not yet lost for the younger generation