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

 
The Rise and Fall of the Southern Poverty Law Center ~ Devolving from a force for good to one for wickedness, this group outlived their usefulness long ago ~

The SPLC will certainly come down because it has grown fat, proud, deceitful, and hateful, calling evil good and good evil. Because it has become the voice of the oppressor rather than the voice of the oppressed.

Related: The Reckoning of Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center

 
NJ Governor Signs “Rain Tax” Bill; Residents’ Property Rates Rise “Based On The Weather” ~ The latest progressive lunacy, from the “Garden State” ~

Assemblyman Christopher DePhillips has said the “rain-tax” bill permits local communities to tax “based on the weather,” and allows unlimited bonding and debt to be placed on the backs of property taxpayers. Not that bonding and debt aren’t already on the backs of the taxpayer, it is, but now New Jersey gets to carry the financial burden when it rains. “The last thing this state needs is more debt and another runaway tax. Especially one that taxes the weather” said DePhillips.

 
Mark Meadows: US ambassadors conspired with DOJ to take down Trump ~ According to Rep. Meadows (R-NC) ~

“(A)dditional information that is coming out that will show not only was there no collusion, but there was a coordinated effort to take this president down,” Meadows told Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “We talk about the ‘Deep State.’ There are players now, even ambassadors, that are sitting ambassadors that were involved in part of this with the FBI-DOJ.”

 
Italy: Muslim migrant bus driver rams bus full of children into cars on highway, sets it on fire ~ When you import a pathology…

An Italian bus driver of Senegalese descent was arrested on Wednesday after hijacking his own vehicle and setting it on fire, allegedly threatening to kill more than 50 children on board whose hands he had bound.
 
The 47-year-old man said he was acting in revenge for the thousands of migrants, many of them African, who have drowned in the Mediterranean in recent years while trying to reach Europe from Libya.

Luckily there were there were no critical injuries. Twelve children were treated for bruises, smoke inhalation or because they were suffering from shock.

 
Jeanine Pirro’s Right – Sharia Law Incompatible With U.S. Constitution ~

Everything we stand for as Americans, free speech, freedom of religion, equal rights for women, are enshrined in the U.S. Constitution, the ultimate protector of our rights and Western values Sharia law is incompatible with our values and our democracy.

 
Why banning “conversion therapy” is more dangerous than you think ~ “Rebel Priest” (Anglican) addresses a law currently under consideration in the U.K. ~

It would prohibit any effort to help someone who suffered with gender dysphoria to accept and live as their biological sex, even if they wanted such help. It would require everyone to affirm people’s claims about what their ‘gender identity’ is and make it a criminal offence to take any action (even if requested by the person themselves) aimed at bringing their psychology in line with their biology […]
 
(I)t wouldn’t just ban trying to change a person’s sexual orientation, it would ban any expression of moral or religious teaching that counselled against engaging in gay sex.

 
Obama Admin. Ignored Public Health Experts Seeking Fentanyl Crisis Declaration ~ How did the mainstreams miss this? They probably don’t care about the opioid crisis either ~

In May of 2016, 11 public health experts wrote a private letter to six Obama administration officials—including the heads of the Office of National Drug Control Policy and Centers for Disease Control—asking for a public health emergency to be declared so that the federal government could better respond to the surge of overdose deaths.
 
But, in what the Post characterized as “one in a series of missed opportunities,” the administration declined to declare an emergency. Instead, fentanyl overdoses continued to grow unabated, with Congress and President Donald Trump not taking action for another two years.

Blame Climate Change for stupid British Voters choosing Brexit says ABC ~ Climate change is such a useful bogeyman, we can even blame it for Brexit ~

If only we had built more windmills, and changed more light-globes we could have prevented the British voting to control their own nation. It all makes sense — if you are insane, or a broadcaster paid one billion a year to promote Big Government.

 
CBN News Reporter Attacked, Nearly Kidnapped by 3 Maduro Thugs on Venezuela Border ~ On the Columbian border; it’s a wild west show down there ~

As I was filming along the riverbank, I was attacked by three men who tried to drag me into Venezuela. There were several signs that these attackers were tied to the regime – for example, they were smoking cigarettes which most Venezuelans can’t afford since they’re struggling to survive. And this wasn’t a robbery attempt since they didn’t take my camera and they were literally trying to drag me across the border.

 
The Case for Jexodus ~ How much anti-Semitism it take to wake up liberal Jews and get them to leave the Democrat party?

The Democrats are not a political movement with good ideas that happens to be troubled by anti-Semitism. The anti-Semitism is the direct result of those ideas on the domestic and foreign policy front. Rep. Omar sits on the House Foreign Relations Committee spewing anti-Semitism because the Democrats believe that Islamic terrorism is justified […]

 
The Democrats can’t be reformed with pleas and arguments about tolerance. Expecting them to disavow anti-Semitism is also a demand that they abandon their domestic and foreign policy ideas.

 
Media Touts ‘Clear Sign of Human-Caused Climate Change.’ Here Are the Facts ~ Marc Morano straightens out AP reporter Seth Borenstein on the not-really-changing climate ~

Borenstein, the chief climate reporter for the Associated Press, has a long history of promoting dubious climate claims and essentially lobbying the public to “believe” that man-made climate change is a dire emergency and that government “solutions” are needed.
 
He has repeatedly recycled Antarctic melt fears despite contrary evidence, and unscientifically claimed that “climate change” has made the Earth “weirder” and “downright wilder.”

 
Trump greets kids with Down syndrome at White House on World Down Syndrome Day ~ This is the Donald Trump you rarely see on the network news ~

“All people are endowed by their Creator with dignity and the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Despite some persistent myths and stigmas, even within the medical community, our Nation strongly embraces the undeniable truth that a Down syndrome diagnosis is an opportunity to embrace God’s gifts. I stand for life — in all of its beautiful manifestations — and I, and my Administration, will continue to condemn the prejudice and discrimination that Americans with Down syndrome too often endure.”