The sword of Robert the Bruce to be put on display in Edinburgh.

800-year-old sword of Scottish King goes on public display

An 800 year old sword wielded by Scottish King Robert the Bruce goes on public display for the first time in many years ahead of the 200th anniversary of the discovery of his remains.

Vibrant Diversity Update.

"I have been taught... to kill... to not be afraid. Don't be afraid of disrespecting the one who" commits blasphemy, the student can be heard saying in the video in Pashto.

Rebuked for skipping classes, student kills college principal, accuses him of blasphemy

28 percent increase in personal armed violence in 2017 in Turkey: Report

I always find these reconstructions fascinating. What the bones of these ancient people can tell us about their lives is fascinating as well. Like that ‘Avgi” (Dawn) had a hard life because she struggled with hip and joint problems. Her family couldn’t just buy her one of those scooters to help her get around on her own either. We always imagine stone age people to be robustly healthy and super-athletic, when in fact many of them were sick and crippled, and died young. Nature is cruel. ‘Savage’ even.

Meet Dawn, a 9,000-year-old teenage girl

Apocalypse Update.

“I am for doing good to the poor, but...I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed...that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”

― Benjamin Franklin

The collapse of the Golden State. So Stockton was bankrupt not too long ago and yet it still has the liquidity to give away 500 bucks a month to a couple of hundred of its residents, no strings attached. How can that possibly have a bad ending? We know how successful throwing the public money at social problems and paying people for not working has been in the past, don’t we?

This city will give poorest $500 a month, no strings attached

More on the mob hit in Ontario from last year.

Hit man killed both mob scion, innocent woman

Coroner tells murder trial victim was decapitated, body parts scattered

Jihad Update.

“Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews.”

- Sahih Muslim, Book 41 Hadith 6985

“Our talks with the infidel West and our conflict with them ultimately revolve around one issue… Does Islam, or does it not, force people by the power of the sword to submit to its authority corporeally if not spiritually? Yes. There are only three choices in Islam... Either submit, or live under the suzerainty of Islam, or die.”

-Osama bin Laden

“And this is the difference between Islamic law and Jewish law or Christian law. Jewish law pertains only to Jews. Canon law only to Catholics. But Islamic law, sharia, asserts its authority over non-Muslims.”

-Pam Geller 06/01/2017

“They can hold all the peace talks they want, but there will never be peace in the Middle East. Billions of years from now, when Earth is hurtling toward the Sun and there is nothing left alive on the planet except a few microorganisms, the microorganisms living in the Middle East will be bitter enemies.”

—Dave Berry, "25 Things I Have Learned in 50 Years"

Al-Qaeda chief urges Muslims to 'kill every Jew'