Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:
Why heroin is spreading in America’s suburbs (+video) ~ Disturbing trend; strong link between potent painkillers and heroin, especially among young people.
Eleven Hate-Crime Hoaxes ~ Ah yes, one of the Left’s favorite devices for advancing their radical social agenda; the faux hate-crime – Cry “wolf.” Go for the initial shock value. Ride the wave of collective emotional outrage. Push for completely unnecessary legislation to further the cause. And when it turns out later that the whole thing was built on a lie? Oh well. Count on the mainstream media to forget to mention it.
New study shows Arctic sea ice extent ~6000 years ago was much less than today ~
This is interesting, somehow the Earth managed to reduce a good portion of the Arctic Ice Cap during the Holocene Climate Optimum from approximately 10,000-6,000 years ago without the help of the industrial revolution, fossil fuels, or automobile emissions.
This new paper published in Quaternary Science Reviews finds Arctic sea ice extent and thickness was much less than present-day conditions […]
Cornwall Alliance – for the stewardship of Creation ~ I recently discovered this Christian alternative to radical environmentalism. They advocate a biblical approach to conservation; God gave man dominion over creation and tasked him with stewardship over all the earth.
Here’s their take on the Biblical Noah vs. the Hollywood version: Movie Noah Trades Redemption for Destruction
Has the USA Become a Banana Republic? ~ Almost. The rapid erosion of the rule of law is setting up a power vacuum easily filled by another Castro, Chavez, Noriega – or worse ~
We have government officials abusing the law and the citizens. We have a complicit media shielding those of a particular party and doing their best to suppress any dissemination of the facts. I personally don’t care if you’re a Democrat, Republican, or anything else. If you violate your oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, you should be arrested, tried, and thrown in jail. Period. What’s happening now is something that should never be in America.
And speaking of corruption ~
A whole lotta Democrat corruption going on ~ FBI rounds up the latest batch of Democrat politicians who thought laws only applied to we-the-sheeple. (Speculation is that the Republican round-up will be timed much closer to the mid-term elections for maximum adverse effect.)
On ObamaCare’s Birthday, Ballooning Problems ~ Ain’t that the truth? Notice how no one was throwing any parties?
Our family’s search for replacement healthcare was similar to Ann Coulter’s (can’t keep your plan, your doctor, or your hospital AND your premiums/deductibles will skyrocket), but I can’t describe our experience nearly as humorously as she can ~ I’ve been thrown off my health insurance — THANKS, OBAMACARE!
And, as we’ve all learned – Obama Administration: We Never Mean a Word We Say ~ Heritage article highlighting the endlessly evolving nature of the debacle that is ObamaCare.
Obamacare Forcing Another Michigan Hospital To Cut Budget And Fire Staff ~ More fallout. Smaller hospitals are finding the Affordable Care Act anything but affordable.
Malaysian Flight More Newsworthy Than 8,000 Veteran Suicides ~ A national disgrace that the main stream media refuses to even acknowledge.
Since March 8, an estimated 418 of our Military Veterans have committed suicide on American soil. That’s 415 more than the number of American passengers who perished on Flight 370.
A study by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) reports that that an average of 22 Veterans commit suicide every day
There’s never been any mention on any news station anywhere about the greatest human disaster in American history, which is the catastrophic loss of 8,000 lives annually by suicide of those who defended our Nation’s freedom.
Tragic.
