Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Wednesday Links

Some stories in the news, and other interesting items:

From the New York Post, seven Marines and four soldiers are presumed dead from the crash of an Army Black Hawk helicopter off the Florida coast.

From The Observers at France24, video of Shiite militias burning down a Sunni village in Iraq.

From UPI, car bombs kill 10 people in Ramadi, Iraq.

From Fox News, ISIS terrorists flee as Iraqi soldiers and Shiite militia enter Tikrit.

American Thinker asks, "Do black lives really matter?"

From Ohio Watchdog, the state's budget keeps getting bigger.

From The Roanoke Times, Pittsburgh Steeler linebacker and former Virginia Tech football player Jason Worilds decides to retire at age 27.

From Watts Up With That?, a look at Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius, an early proponent of the view that burning fossil fuels would lead to global warming.

The Daily Caller begs to differ with a recent survey which indicated declining gun ownership.

From America's Navy, the USS Theodore Roosevelt embarks on a world tour.

From National Review, records kept by Al Sharpton have been destroyed by a suspicious fire - twice.

From WebProNews, Uber promises to hire a million female drivers by 2020.

From The Daily Signal and the "old but still relevant" department, nineteen examples of missing and later found documents, from both Dems and GOPers.  (via Sharyl Attkisson)

From Legal Insurrection, Seattle police have started to post online footage from their body cameras.

From Epoch Times, a Q&A with a Michigan toxicologist who won an award for research on birth defects in Iraq.

From Yahoo News, polls in Israel show the left-center Zionist Union party having a lead over Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party.

From USA Today, actor Windell Middlebrooks, who appeared several Miller High Life commercials, has died at age 36.

From The Big Story at AP, the AP sues the State Department for Hillary Clinton's emails and other records.  (A media outlet thus reports on itself.)

And from Life News, former Ravens linebacker O.J. Brigance, now suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease, urges the Maryland state legislature to reject legalizing assisted suicide.

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