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

 
When horse diapers and freedom of religion collide ~ And you thought you had problems 😀

Two Amish men in Auburn, Ky., filed a lawsuit last month saying a city ordinance requiring horses to wear equine diapers—bags designed to catch manure—violated the ability of Amish residents to exercise their religion.

 
How taxation creates black markets and human suffering ~ The law of unintended consequences. Or maybe – in the case of Saul Alinsky types – intended consequences? Logan Albright at Conservative Review explains how sin taxes (cigarettes) generally lead to more sin (human trafficking).

 
Here was another surprising SNL segment – from their Jan. 14th show ~ ‘Saturday Night Live’ skit ends with an unexpected pro-life twist ~ Undoubtedly the majority of writers/actors on the comedy show are liberals – pro-abortion by default. So it’s refreshing to see them present an accurate picture of a woman who is surely one of their heroes, suffragette (P.C. version: “suffragist”) Susan B. Anthony.

 
50,000 Pro-Life People Flood the Streets of Paris to March Against Abortion ~ Before the U.S. March and in contrast to last weekend’s Women’s March ~ Parisians were in the streets on Sunday urging the government to stop approximately 220,000 unborn babies from being killed in abortions every year. In France, even speaking out against abortion is being criminalized ~

Pro-life attorney Gregor Puppinck, who is based in Europe, previously explained: “Freedom of expression on abortion is currently being challenged in France. The French administration makes it every day more difficult for pro-life associations to express their ideas and to promote pro-life choices.”

 
Muslim writer Haroon Moghul says calling someone “kafir” is announcing a death sentence, calls Trump “kafir” Another outrageous Muslim apologist who will get a pass from the mainstream media ~

Obsessed with victimhood, poor Haroon cowers in fear of “Islamophobic” coffee servers: his Starbucks name is not Haroon but “Dwayne” (my Starbucks name, meanwhile, is “Haroon”). When he gets behind a keyboard, however, he is suddenly full of bravado, trafficking in malicious defamation and dishonesty (discounting the reality of jihad terror while magnifying the fiction of “Islamophobia”) and taking advantage of his audience’s ignorance about Islam to invert reality, portraying Muslims as victims of a cruel “Islamophobic” machine, instead of non-Muslims threatened by the global jihad.

 
Yazidi Girls Sold as Sex Slaves while Women March against Trump ~ In the end, I think most leftists only really care about themselves; they never speak out against this horrific misogyny. Hey Ashley Judd ~

“Some of those women and girls have had to watch 7-, 8-, and 9-year-old children bleed to death before their eyes, after being raped by ISIS militia multiple times a day. ISIS militias have burned many Yezidi girls alive for refusing to convert… Why? Because we are not Muslims…” — Mirza Ismail, chairman of the Yezidi Human Rights Organization-International.

 
Mary Tyler Moore Rejected The Feminism Of Gloria Steinem And Betty Friedan ~ She showed us women could be strong, independent and competent – without losing their femininity ~

“I want to mention my Gloria Steinem experience. She thought that I was 100% on Betty Friedan’s train. And I really wasn’t. I believed that women—and I still do—have a very major role to play as mothers. It’s very necessary for mothers to be involved with their children. And that’s not what Gloria Steinem was saying. Gloria was saying oh, you can have everything, and you owe it to yourself to have a career. And I didn’t really believe in that, so that was a little difficult for me. Well, I just had to say no.”

 
The Democrats Retreat From Reality ~ Unable to comprehend what happened last November they just mindlessly move further and further to the left ~

“Real people” are what the Democratic Party is sorely missing. By real I do not mean the members of a specific ethnic or religious or cultural or regional group but simply those men and women who are uninterested in the latest trend embraced by the left.

But never mind, according to Nancy Pelosi, “Democrats Do ‘the Lord’s Work,’ Republicans ‘Dishonor God'”

The Facts of Obama’s Presidency are Quite Different from the Spin in His Farewell Address ~ Helpful charts and graphs tell the real story (i.e., the national debt is skyrocketing; life expectancy plunging). James Agresti begins his piece with this ~

Obama contends that “on January 20, 2009,” when “I stood before you and swore a sacred oath” to “meet the challenges we faced…”

Well no wonder he went off the rails from day-one. He was supposed to swear an oath to preserve protect and defend the Constitution of the United States!
 
But that does explain this ~ Obama’s Military: A Legacy Of Unparalleled Social Change ~

While President Donald Trump has signaled a policy turn of sorts back to modernization, training, and ship building, former President Barack Obama’s military legacy centered on gays, the trans community, and woman service members […]

 
“Some changes have been positive, but the extremes imposed by the Obama Administration over the past eight years have vitiated the best qualities of military culture and core values in numerous ways.” – Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness

 
River Danube becomes a skaters’ paradise as it freezes over for only the second time in 30 years as deep freeze descends on Europe ~ Global warming takes a holiday