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

Patti Davis (Ronald Reagan’s leftie daughter) deletes tweet asking Obama to explain why she lost her health insurance ~ Dissent is not permitted in the Brave New World of Progressive Land.
 
Here’s another useful idiot ~ Sean Penn: Tea Partiers Should Be Committed By Executive Order or Something ~ Not only does this genius know nothing about the nation’s history, he clearly never read Solzhenitsyn.
 
Government is Magic ~ Sultan Knish nails it. Despite all painful evidence to the contrary, this is what the progressives and their sheeple still believe ~

The United States government is the ultimate giant unworkable mess. It is a living cargo cult where everyone marches around following routines that are supposed to yield great prosperity, but never do. The processes themselves are broken and make no sense, but the cargo culturers of the government cannot and will not hear that. They know that the government will magically make everything work […]
 
Build a website and it will work. Pass a law and they will come. Get a degree and you’re competent.

 
Writer of “The Exorcist” Says Kathleen Sebelius’ Abortion Support is “Demonic” ~ 😈 You don’t have to convince me. William Peter Blatty is also calling for the removal of Georgetown’s (his alma mater) Catholic and Jesuit designations – unless they return to traditional tenets. A noble effort.

 
Obama’s AFA Oath Games ~ The End Run on Faith in the Military.
Why is no one standing up to this Stalinist regime?
We need more generals with the brass to speak out – like Hazelmary Bull! ~

An Older Christian Woman Puts Today’s Compromised Preachers to Shame ~ British bed & breakfast owner refuses to compromise her faith to comply with contemporary secularism. Awesome!

 
The Republican Embrace of the Welfare State -The establishment GOP has accepted progressivism’s central premise ~ It’s all about expediency, inconvenient principles be damned. Andrew McCarthy at National Review Online on the Vichy Republicanism of Charles Krauthammer and the destructive policies of the welfare state.
 
Adult Stem Cell Research Has Defeated Embryonic Stem Cells for Funding Priorities ~ Good news!

Money talks – and our new report shows a growing preference to fund ethical stem cell projects nationwide. This reflects the scientific community’s belief that the best hope for rapid medical advances lies with morally unproblematic alternatives.”

 
As Freedom Destroys Itself ~ Posted several weeks ago, this is an EXCELLENT article by Sarah Palin in defense of the 2nd Amendment. But it’s primarily about America’s soul ~

Laws can’t protect a society that has lost its way […]
 
The question we should be asking is: “What can we do to nurture and support a people capable of living in freedom?”