Links For The Feast Of Stephen

Today is the Feast of Stephen, the man regarded as the first Christian martyr.  Accused of blasphemy, he was executed by the traditional method of stoning.  According to the song Good King Wenceslas, on a Feast of Stephen a few centuries later, the song's namesake looked out and saw lots of snow.  Speaking of songs, I've occasionally wondered if Bob Dylan might have thought of Stephen when he wrote that line "everybody must get stoned".  So whether or not you have "deep and crisp and even" snow today, here are some things going on out there:

From Legal Insurrection, the U.S. gives a big fat "bah humbug!" to the U.N.

From The Jerusalem Post, Guatemala announces that their embassy in Israel will move to Jerusalem.

From the Daily Mail, the Nazis made a fake town that was really a concentration camp near Prague.

From Yahoo News, four fetuses were found in a body parts warehouse in Detroit.

From the Los Angeles Times, is the Big Bend area the weakest link in the border?

From News(dot)com(dot)au, police break up an unauthorized beach party in a no-alcohol zone.  (via the New York Post)

From Balkan Insight, dozens of invaders refugees demand to be let into Croatia from Serbia.

From Reuters, Italy rescues over 250 migrants in the Mediterranean.

From Voice of Europe, some French double standards.

From Russia Today, according to the German foreign minister, Turkey and Ukraine are unlikely to join the E.U.

From the Express, a British economist calls the E.U. "deeply immoral" because it forced poor Brits to buy "expensive" goods.  (Perhaps the people of the above-mentioned Turkey and Ukraine might want to know about this, before asking to join.)

From Gatestone Institute, are the British just going about their "normal" lives?

From the Daily Star, migrants are still gathering in Calais, France trying to enter Britain.

From National Review, the failure of the Obamacare individual mandate is bipartisan.

From AccuWeather, Erie, Pennsylvania gets a record-breaking amount of snow.  (I don't know how crisp and even it is, but it's extremely deep.)

From Fox News, this year's biggest celebrity losers.

From The Guardian, Australian football (a.k.a. soccer) has had a weird year.

From The Week, "the weird and wonderful world of body suspension".  (I would add "masochistic".)

From the Daily Post, 13 things to do between Christmas and New Year's Day.

And from K5 News, five things other than balls will drop on New Year's Eve.