Blog Heap o'Links for July 2016

Authorities sent in a robot to investigate the toolbox on Sunday at the Maracana Stadium as rehearsals for the ceremony were underway.

The toolbox is believed to have exploded when the robot touched it. No injuries have been reported.…

…there has been a significant attack directed or inspired by ISIS every 84 hours since June 8 in cities outside the war zones in Iraq, Syria, Sinai in Egypt and Libya…

…Jos Vanderlee, 65, a priest in Belgium stabbed ‘by asylum seeker in his own home after letting him in to use shower’…

More than a decade after conservationists helped persuade Congress to require adding corn-based ethanol and other biofuels to gasoline, some groups regret the resulting agricultural runoff in waterways and conversion of prairies to cropland — improving the odds that lawmakers might seek changes to the program next year.…

Skydiver Luke Aikens became the first person ever to jump out of a plane and into a net on the ground without utilizing a parachute…

Why Trump Can Win Pennsylvania…
Obama Issues Executive Order That May Drive Gunsmiths Out of Business…
When Assisted Suicide Becomes Coercive…

When We Weren’t Looking, Obama Passed Another Anti-Gun EO…
Muslim man shoots dead his own sisters because they chose their own husbands…
Harvard Med School Scientists Want Female Volunteer Willing to Give Birth to a Genetically Modified Neanderthal…

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls thinks that his country needs to establish a renewed rapport with Islam. In an interview with Le Monde, Mr. Valls said, “We need to reset and invent a new relationship with Islam.”

In other news, more than 5,000 immigration-critics took to the streets of Berlin today in a demonstration against Chancellor Angela Merkel and her migration policy.…

…On this day in 1790 the first U.S. patent was issued. Samuel Hopkins was issued a patent for a potash process.

…As a professor who has taught Christian ethics for 39 years… I think voting for Trump is a morally good choice.… there is nothing morally wrong with voting for a flawed candidate if you think he will do more good for the nation than his opponent. In fact, it is the morally right thing to do.…

If you’re over 35, you lived through it, so read it and recollect. Amazing to me how much I had forgotten! For those under 35, read this, verify it yourself and don’t ever forget.

When Bill Clinton was president, he allowed Hillary to assume authority over an attempt to health care reform. Even after threats and intimidation, she couldn’t get a vote in a Democrat controlled US Congress. This fiasco cost the American taxpayers about $13 million for studies, promotion, and other efforts…

Thousands Of Turkish Forces Surround U.S. Base At Incirlik Airbase, Block Access/Exit…UPDATE: Report Of Erdogan Islamist Protesters Outside U.S. Consulate In Adana, Also At Incirlik, Military Police Keeping Them Out…

Hillary Clinton has made clear she intends to dramatically raise taxes on the American people if elected. She has proposed an income tax increase, a business tax increase, a death tax increase, a capital gains tax increase, a tax on stock trading, an "Exit Tax" and more (see below). Her planned net tax increase on the American people is at least $1 trillion over ten years, based on her campaign’s own figures.…

16 PEOPLE have been killed in a hot air balloon crash near Austin, Texas in one of the deadliest balloon accidents on record. The balloon caught fire before hitting the ground near Lockhart, south of the city of Austin.…

…Sitting about half a mile from Independence Hall, where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed, I got a whirlwind course in Liberal History 101.…

A chance meeting at the Republican National Convention solved a 15-year-old mystery that began on the morning of September 11, 2001.…

A Shawnee, Oklahoma pup undergoes emergency surgery after swallowing several rubber duckies…

…Conducting the first large-scale, genome-wide analyses of ancient human remains from the Near East, an international team led by Harvard Medical School has illuminated the genetic identities and population dynamics of the world’s first farmers.

The study reveals three genetically distinct farming populations living in the Near East at the dawn of agriculture 12,000 to 8,000 years ago: two newly described groups in Iran and the Levant and a previously reported group in Anatolia, in what is now Turkey.

The findings… also suggest that agriculture spread in the Near East at least in part because existing groups invented or adopted farming technologies, rather than because one population replaced another.…

…I started to wonder how long it would take for the cops to arrive. Would it matter? Somebody had called the cops, right? I heard walking in the hallway. I gave a smile and a nod to the children. I don't know why, and I didn't know who was walking in the hallway.

All was quiet. That was a good sign, right? No. It was too quiet.

At that crucial moment, it occurred to me that the only way for me to have even a chance of protecting myself and my children against an armed intruder was with a gun.…

Courts dealt setbacks to Republican efforts in three states to restrict voting, blocking a North Carolina law requiring photo identification, loosening a similar measure in Wisconsin and halting strict citizenship requirements in Kansas.…

UK fears ISIS drone attacks…
France: Calls for an ‘Israeli-like’ approach to security, terror…
FBI director: Crushing Isis in Syria risks releasing ‘terrorists diaspora’ into the West…

EBL: Hillary Clinton’s Acceptance Speech Was Powerful…Like Ambien…
American Thinker: What If An Anti-American Cult Had A Convention?…
This Ain’t Hell: Democrats Convinced Their Gun Control Message Can Win…

Oldie but goodie: Euclid Cannot Explain a Hamburger…
Top Homeland Security Dem: We Should ‘Not Close Our Borders’…
Even those who oppose Trump know he will win…

Using the slogan “Merkel must go!”, thousands of German anti-immigration activists are calling for a demonstration tomorrow in Berlin. A coalition of groups is planning to gather in Washington Square at 3pm for a rally.

In other news, the Venezuelan government has issued a decree requiring employees of both public and private corporations to work in the fields, a desperate attempt to ease the country’s severe food shortage.…

…Today is Saturday, July 30, 2016. On this day in 1932 Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees premiered, it was the first film to use the three color Technicolor process.

…In a crowded street in Baghdad's Karrada neighborhood, a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device, or VBIED, detonated after midnight, causing nearby dwellings to be engulfed in flames.

Many residents were trapped inside the inferno — it was estimated that 20 to 30 people died from the initial explosion.

But investigators at the scene are now concerned with another potential threat: The terrorist group may have developed and used a new type of bomb.…

A seven-year-old girl has died after being hit by a stone thrown by an elephant from its enclosure at Rabat Zoo in Morocco.…

On the last night of the Democratic National Convention, a retired Navy four-star took the stage to pay tribute to veterans. Behind him, on a giant screen, the image of four hulking warships reinforced his patriotic message.

But there was a big mistake in the stirring backdrop: those are Russian warships.…

Rabbit vs. Squirrel game of tag

…On his way to the office, he encountered a group of animal rights activists protesting unethical donkey rides. Convincing the activists that he was trying to liberate a “fabulous donkey named Milo” from captivity, the protesters agreed to be led in a chant of “Free Milo!”…

A pilot from 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California, was killed in an F/A-18C Hornet crash Thursday night.

The crash was during a training mission around 10:30 p.m. near Twentynine Palms, California…

Health officials are reported a brain-eating amoeba was found in the Rio Grande River along the Texas border with Mexico. Mexican health officials in Tamaulipas warned people to refrain from swimming in or bathing in the river that is used by many to illegally enter the United States.…

ICRC: Anti-'IS' fight could displace 1 million in Iraq…
North Korea threat prompts Japan to upgrade Patriot batteries in time for Olympics…
Summer of fear: the anxious mood in Germany and France…

I gave them a ten-question American history test…
Most vulgar presidential candidate was Bill Clinton, not Trump…
Why These Union Members and Lifelong Democrats Are Voting Trump…

Organizers of a dance music festival in Austria have tightened security for the event after recent terrorist attacks in Europe. And Spain has increased security at popular tourist spots for the same reason. Meanwhile, German Chancellor Angela Merkel says that she will not reverse her migration policies — she still thinks that “Wir schaffen das” — “We can do that.”

In other news, a cook in an Alexandria, Virginia restaurant refused to prepare food for a policewoman in uniform. When the story made it into the media, two employees at the restaurant were fired.…

This woman is stupid & dangerous…
Smile worthy…
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…On this day in 1976 David Berkowitz (a.k.a. the "Son of Sam") killed one person and seriously wounded another in the first of a series of attacks in NYC. Amazingly despite being sentenced to 6 life sentences he is up for parole now every 2 years. He is claiming to be a "born again Christian" now.…

…This was a speech that could have been given in Moscow during the Cold War. Instead it was delivered to an enthusiastic audience of Democrats who love the idea of taking away someone else’s money. Beneath all the distractions, the celebrities and family stories, is the fundamental idea that Hillary has more of a right to your money than you do because she is “humbly” more enlightened than you are.

There’s a name for that ideology. It comes with a hammer and sickle, with the color red, with gulags and firing squads, with little red books and big black prisons, and the death of the human soul.…

A teen who threatened to “shoot one of these” cops at the Port Authority Bus Terminal Wednesday was arrested after a homeless man turned him in, sources said.

Florida resident Hunter Lee Taylor, 18, was allegedly smoking marijuana with George Pugh in the terminal at about 4 p.m. when Taylor motioned toward a PAPD cop and said, “I’d like to off that guy…”

CAIR, Council of American Islamic Relations, has issued guide lines on how not to talk about jihad. Do not blame all Muslims for terrorism, but there is no need to blame any Muslims. The blame is the Islamic jihad doctrine. But there is something that all Muslims share – the same doctrine, the same Koran and the same Sunna of Mohammed.…

Morocco’s interior ministry yesterday announced that police had arrested 52 people suspected of having links to Daesh and who had planned several attacks in the kingdom.

The operation which took place on 19 July followed an investigation into 143 suspects throughout the country.…

…At a press conference Angela Merkel expressed her sorrow about the recent killings in Germany and elsewhere, but stood by her policy on accepting Muslim asylum seekers…

Teen JIHADI arrested as police FOIL major terror attack in Stuttgart, Germany…

EU President: No Matter How Bad Migrant Crisis, Terrorism Gets, We’ll Never Give Up On Open Borders…

A suicide bomber riding an empty livestock truck laden with explosives blew himself up Wednesday in a crowded district in the predominantly Kurdish town of Qamishli in northern Syria, causing massive destruction and killing 44 people in a new attack claimed by the Islamic State group.…

This is the nerve center of my home, the coffee station. It is where I spend my first conscious moments every day. Above the coffee pot is an original drawing by Jack Davis. Its subject, Alfred E. Newman, and his words are familiar, but this particular rendering has been seen by few. I will tell you its story.…

The Rocketeer is ready to blast off once again.

Walt Disney Studios is developing a reboot of the 1991 action adventure movie, hiring Max Winkler and Matt Spicer to pen the script, which is being titled The Rocketeers.

The project, in the early development stages, is considered a sequel-reboot and, in a modern-day twist, will be headlined by a black female character.…

Actor Jerry Doyle, best known for his role in the sci-fi series Babylon 5, has died at the age of 60.

Doyle appeared in all five series of the 1990s show as Chief Warrant Officer Michael Garibaldi.

He also made guest appearances on other popular shows, such as Beverly Hills 90210, NYPD Blue and Martial Law, and was the host of a nationally-syndicated daily radio show in the US.
A spokesman for Doyle's family said the cause of his death was not yet known.…

Protesters at the Democratic National Convention grew even rowdier than on previous nights and a U.S. flag was lit on fire — and a protester attempting to dance on the burning flag ended up on fire.…

…Our smartphone batteries are bad because they barely last a day.

But it's partially our fault because we've been charging them wrong this whole time.…

A mysterious substance leak at an Air Force Base has sparked a mass evacuation and has hospitalised 14 people.… Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington.…

I know, I know — I’ve been remiss about illustrated editions. I’ve got a nice collection here, though, about Hillary, the convention, and a few related issues…

Twitchy: “Then Take It From Me, Commie!” Black Trump Supporter Defends The Flag At #DemsInPhilly…
American Thinker: Creeping Sharia In Healthcare…
Megan McArdle: How Obama Learned To Speak Republican…

Vegans Rip Doughnut Shop for Expecting Employees To Be Able To Eat Doughnuts…
The tragic likelihood that trans men are being deprived of their reproductive rights…
Another Day, Another Allahu Akbar…

Turkey has closed down 130 media outlets as part of a continuing crackdown in the wake of the failed military coup. Among the outlets closed down are 45 newspapers and 16 television stations.

In other news, police in the German city of Bremen have acknowledged that at least 24 women were sexually assaulted by young migrant men at a recent music festival.…

Twitchy: Wikileaks Releases Hacked DNC Voicemails During Primetime Of #DemsInPhilly…
Adam Piggott: It’s Time To Sue Activists…
Don Surber: Obama Enters Trump’s Spider Web…

Bill’s desperate bid to humanize Hillary shows fear she might lose…
That Jihad Attack on the Orlando Gay Nightclub Never Happened, Says President Obama…
Sign The Petition To Remove Air Conditioning From All US State Department Property…

Iran doesn't care for television…
Which moron will they hire?…
Another liberal snafu…

…On this day in 1932 Herbert Hoover ordered the Army under General McArthur to forcibly evict the so-called "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans, their wives, and children gathered in Washington, D.C. So McArthur hit them with troops and tanks which was a clear violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. Congress eventually gave in and paid their bonuses early.…

…As so many have pointed out already, Trump’s joke was masterful for another reason. He backed Team Clinton into a corner and managed to get them to inadvertently acknowledge that those “non-work-related emails about yoga routines and wedding plans” in the hands of the Russians would be a threat to national security.

That is genius.…

An explosion has been reported outside a government office for migration and refugees in Germany.

A suitcase was thought to be the source of the blast outside the Bundesamtes für Migration in Zirndorf, Bavaria, on Wednesday afternoon…

…17-year-old Indian girl wrestled the knife away from a Muslim man trying to rape her and used it to castrate him…

Politically incorrect ad of the year… Canada’s Oil Sands Community … ad for their Facebook page…

Wednesday on MSNBC, actor and director Rob Reiner said…

More than 100 high-profile celebrities…

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright…

Revered cartoonist Jack Davis died today at the age of 91. Davis’s art career spanned several mediums, from comics, to movie posters, to advertising. One of his first jobs was drawing a Coco-Cola training manual in 1949.… one of the founding artists of Harvey Kurtzman’s Mad Magazine…

…An unknown hominin species that bred with early human ancestors when they migrated from Africa to Australasia has been identified through genome mapping of living humans.

The genome analysis also questions previous findings that modern humans populated Asia in two waves from their origin in Africa, finding instead a common origin for all populations in the Asia-Pacific region, dating back to a single out-of-Africa migration event.…

There won't be any more calls to Miss Cleo ... the iconic TV psychic is dead after battling cancer… real name was Youree Harris… died Tuesday morning in Palm Beach County, FL.…

…I always felt suffocated, women have no hope in Islam. They are supposed to be hell dwellers in the hereafter. So there was no hope of salvation for me…

A Mexican newspaper that published a controversial editorial calling for a border wall between Mexico and Central America has pulled their story from their website.… editorial provided various arguments supporting a wall between Mexico and Central America instead of a wall with the United States.…

Hillary Corrupts Everything: The DNC Story…
Hindus for Donald Trump…
How Israel’s Air Force Dominates the Sky…

Everything that’s wrong with the Left in one website. At City Journal, Oren Cass has written a short article that looks at modern Progressivism through the filter of Hillary’s campaign website.…

American Thinker: Democratic Platform – Killing The Unborn Is Fine With Us…
Don Surber: Negative Ads Bounce Off Trump’s Chest…
The Jawa Report: Everyone Wave Buh Bye To Debbie Wassermann Schultz…

Proof Positive: Abe Lincoln, Ronald Reagan, and Melania Trump Walk Into A Bar…
Dustbury: And Death To Your Home Town…
STUMP: How Not To Be A Dumbass – #DNCLeaks Shows How Not to Use E-Mail…

Study Finds Sharp Increase in Marijuana Exposure Among Colorado Children…
10 jobs that A.I. and chatbots are poised to eventually replace…
AMERICA’S ECONOMY IS CARTELIZED, CORRUPT, AND ANTI-COMPETITIVE…

The news feed is extremely light tonight. That must mean there was almost no news today. Right? Right…?

Not counting the jihad slaughter in Normandy, the biggest news of the day is that Hillary Rodham Clinton became the first audio-animatron woman ever to be nominated for president by a major American political party. She will face off against Donald Trump in November, so fasten your seatbelts, ladies and gentleman — we’re in for some major turbulence.…

Donald Trump pledges to destroy ISIS and blames Obama for creating sick jihadis…
Hamas ‘summer camp’ trains dozens of young people for war…
Obama Backs Off Plan to Demilitarize Police After Meeting With Lobbyists…

China criticizes US, Japan, Australia for 'fanning' tensions…
Witnesses say South Sudan soldiers raped dozens near UN camp…
French priest’s killer was freed from jail despite aiming to join jihadis…

At a facility for the disabled in the city of Sagamihara in Japan, a young man went on a rampage with a knife, killing 19 people and wounding several dozen more. When police arrived, he told them he wanted to eliminate all the disabled people in the world.

In other news, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said in an interview that France and Germany had only themselves to blame for recent terror attacks, due to their policies on mass immigration.…

15 Great Things Trump Has Done…
Cannibalism and Extraction of Migrants’ Organs Revealed on Trafficker’s Cellphone…
UK pub asks Muslim to remove “Islam” hoodie, hate crime investigation begins…

Jokers & clowns…
The Olympics = Joke…
Its [sic] only money…

…On this day in 1919 the Chicago Race Riot erupted leading to 38 fatalities and 537 injuries over a five-day period. The riot was sparked by an incident but had been building for some time due to tensions from incoming Southern blacks and the existing ethnic Irish who were already settled in the area.

…Pledge of Allegiance had to be put up on teleprompters for the Democrats to be able to recite in unison to kick off the festivities.…

Pic: Liberal DNC Protesters Burn American Flag, Drag Remains Down Streets Of Philly…

Did we talk about The Donald's Tweet retort to Hillary as posted by Nick Searcy on Facebook?

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Her Tweet
@realDonaldTrump thinks Democrats care about his opinion, how does it feel putting stuff where it does not belong?

His Tweet

@HillaryClinton Ask Bill
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He deserves the Presidency for that alone.

Two knife-wielding attackers who had pledged allegiance to ISIS, shouting "Allahu Akbar," slit the throat of an 84-year-old priest and critically wounded at least one other person during a Tuesday morning terror attack on a Catholic church near the Normandy city of Rouen, officials said.

The terrorists were later shot and killed by police. ISIS' Amaq news agency said the France attack was carried out by two Islamic State "soldiers," Reuters reported.…

DNC=Chaos…
The stupid burns…
History maker now regrets making history…

…On this day in 1990 the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 was signed into law by RINO President George Bush. This has been one of the many incredibly bad laws passed by congress.…

…unknown suspect (or suspects) lured officers into the North Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas with a shots fired call, and then ambushed several officers who responded.…

(July 25, 2016) – Last week, Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo signed a bill expanding the state’s medical marijuana law, further nullifying federal prohibition in practice.

A trio of Democrats, Rep. Scott Slater, Rep. Patricia Serpa and Rep. Joseph Solomon, introduced House Bill 7142 (HB7142) in January. The legislation expands the state’s medical marijuana law by making medicinal cannabis accessible to patients suffering from post traumatic stress disorder.…

…The singer appeared, uncredited, on many of the biggest movie musicals of all time - dubbing the voices for Deborah Kerr in The King and I, and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady.

She also sang the high notes for Marilyn Monroe in Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend; and "ghosted" Natalie Wood's vocals on West Side Story.…

…Authorities say the banned satellite dishes are morally damaging, despite high-level calls for reform of the law.… …part of a widespread crackdown against illegal devices they say "deviate morality and culture".…

Chris Matthews: Using Big-City Names is Racist 'Coded Language'…
Tim Kaine: The Jokes Just Write Themselves…
The Real Reason for Obama’s Cuba Breakthrough…

Iraq car bomb kills 17 in Khalis, in attack claimed by IS…
Searchers fail to detect emergency signal from missing Indian plane…
39 people killed by fire in Madagascar…

A 16-year-old Afghan has been arrested in Munich as an accomplice to Ali David Sonboly, the young man who went on a killing spree on Friday before committing suicide. The Afghan is thought to have assisted Mr. Sonboly in his efforts to entice people to the McDonald’s before the shooting, and investigators believe he knew about the attack in advance, but failed to report it.

In other news, Barack Hussein Obama’s older brother Malik says he supports Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy.…

…The regular News Dump that you know and love will resume Tuesday July 26th.

On this day in 1943 Benito Mussolini was forced out of office by the Grand Council of Fascism and was replaced by Pietro Badoglio who opposed the Italian pact with the Nazis.…

Durng her interview with running mate Tim Kaine on 60 Minutes Sunday, Hillary Clinton… shirked responsibility for failing to help Americans besieged in Benghazi, saying it "wasn't my ball to carry."…

At least one person has been killed and around 11 are believed injured after an explosion at a wine bar late on Sunday in Ansbach, near the southern German city of Nuremberg… next to a music festival attended by around 2,500 people.… speculation is emerging on social media platforms that a man was seen to have been turned away from the festival just moments before the blast.…

A U.S. Army National Guard staff sergeant says he and one of his Army veteran friends were assaulted by Black Lives Matter supporters in San Antonio, Texas, Thursday Evening. “As I was getting my face stomped in and thrown through a window, they (all 4 of them) were yelling racial slurs saying how whites sucked and black lives were better,” Marc Stephen, the second victim, said on Facebook.…

Syrian refugee, 21, hacks PREGNANT woman to death with a machete and injures two others before hero BMW driver runs him over, in latest attack to shock Germany…

Rep. Tom Cole (R., Okla.) embarrassed Rep. Keith Ellison (D., Minn.) on ABC Sunday morning when the latter falsely claimed that former Democratic Alabama governor George Wallace was a Republican.…

Government BANS eg, etc and ie from its websites in case they prove too confusing to non-English speakers
The Government Digital Service says it advocates 'simple, clear language'
People whose first language is not English might not understand terms
Programs for visually-impaired people mispronounce the abbreviations
But critics say move is 'short-sighted' as Latin is part of 'cultural heritage'…

The Justice Department announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against Bensalem Township, Pennsylvania, alleging that the township violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) when it denied zoning approval to allow the Bensalem Masjid to build a mosque on three adjoining parcels of land in the township.…

Gary Johnson On the Verge of Appearing On the Debate Stage…
They’ve Started! Massachusetts Attorney General Bans-AR-15s, AKs …
Global Warming Expedition Stopped In Its Tracks By Arctic Sea Ice…

DNC In Panic Mode Over Latest Wikileaks Doc Dump…
Trump pulls nearly even with Clinton after Republican convention: Reuters/Ipsos poll…
Munich Jihad Shooting Exposes Media Double Standard…

Two bombs exploded during a demonstration on the streets of Kabul, killing at least 80 people. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, which targeted Afghanistan’s Shi’ite minority.

In other news, the Democrat vice-presidential candidate, Former Virginia Governor Tim Kaine, made his first campaign appearance with Hillary Clinton at an event in Miami.…

…slept late now must eat something…

In poll after poll, around 50 percent of Bernie Sanders supporters say they will not vote for Hillary Clinton in November. …

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has corrected its coverage of Munich killer Ali David Sonbaly following a Breitbart London expose of how the global media giant was attempting to hide the murderers Muslim name.…

The BBC has unilaterally chosen not to report the Munich attacker’s full name, in what appears to be an attempt to scrub any Muslim or Islamic heritage link to its coverage of the incident.
Most sources at this point suggest that Ali David Sonboly…

Two Canadian Pokemon Go players were detained by the US Border Patrol after crossing the border while playing the popular mobile game. The two teenagers accidentally wandered into Montana while searching for Pokemon, drawing the ire of US officials.…

Secretary of State John Kerry said in Vienna on Friday that air conditioners and refrigerators are as big of a threat to life as the threat of terrorism posed by groups like the Islamic State.…

Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s action restoring the voting rights of more than 200,000 felons was unconstitutional, Virginia’s highest court ruled Friday, siding with Republican lawmakers who said the governor overstepped his authority.…

American Power: Hacked Democrat E-Mails Reveal Hillary Plan To Attack Sanders’ Religion…
Joe For America: Muslim Journalist Says France Deserved The Nice Attacks Because They’re Islamophobic…
This Ain’t Hell: Ever Wondered What This Administration Would Do If U.S. Forces Were Attacked?…

Vermont doctors push back against assisted-suicide requirement…
Liking the Trump Spirit: Trump awakens the sleeping giant of America…
Democratic Party Platform Calls For WWII Scale Mobilization To Fight Hotcoldwetdry…

The news feed is light tonight, possibly because of the distraction posed by the Munich terror attack.

Not counting Munich, the big news story of the day was that Hillary Clinton has chosen former Virginia governor Tim Kaine as her running mate in the presidential election.

In other news, three men from Palm Beach have been arrested and charged for attempting to travel to Syria and help the Islamic State.…

Is Free Speech on Life Support? Quite So! Terminally So!…
‘Line Out The Door’ For AR-15s After Mass. AG Announces ‘Assault Weapons’ Ban…
CNN probably regrets polling viewers after Trump’s RNC speech because, well… WOW…

…On this day in 1903 the Ford Motor Company sold its first car. As of 2008 they had produced 5,532,000 cars.

Sluggish Tim Kaine Expects Other Religions To Begin Beheadings, Torture and Terror in the Name of Their Prophet Starting Tomorrow…

New York has obtained a confidential document from the Malaysian police investigation into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 that shows that the plane’s captain, Zaharie Ahmad Shah, conducted a simulated flight deep into the remote southern Indian Ocean less than a month before the plane vanished under uncannily similar circumstances.…

Daily Mail: 'Boom boom boom - he's killing the kids': Gunman shouting 'Allahu Akbar' executed children in Munich McDonald's before rampaging through shopping mall leaving NINE dead then fleeing …

Second shooting in Munich as gunman reported to open fire at Marienplatz Metro station …

…A five-year-old boy spent his fifth birthday party mourning the loss of his beloved dog after it was shot and killed with an assault rifle by an Oklahoma police officer - despite it being on the other side of a fence.…

…Two weeks ago on a Tuesday night, at around 9 p.m, 18-year-old Lane Smith was at a Flower Mound park with his friends, searching for a PokéStop—a place to stock up on Poké Balls and helpful items. While distracted by the game, with his eyes glued to the screen of his cell phone, a small brown snake -- believed to be a copperhead -- wrapped itself around Smith's foot and sunk its venomous fangs into his toe.…

…Firefighters in Gloucester County were dispatched to Eglington Cemetery in East Greenwich Township on Tuesday night after receiving a report of a woman who got stuck in a tree while chasing a Pokemon. A rescue team used an extension ladder to rescue her. …

…On Wednesday, a team of neuroscientists released an extremely detailed map of terra incognita of the human brain — the cerebral cortex. The cerebral cortex is the brain’s outermost layer and is responsible for sensory perception, language, attention, tool use and abstract thinking. The new map divides the cortex into 180 distinct areas, or “parcels,” including 97 previously undiscovered ones.…

…Texas man saved a baby deer from drowning in a lake. …jumped into Lake Buchanan and rescued the baby after he saw her struggling to stay above the water. With one arm under the deer, the man managed to keep the baby's head above the lake as he slowly worked his way back to the boat.…

…Archaeologists in Texas have found a set of 16,700-year-old tools which are among the oldest discovered in the West. Until now, it was believed that the culture that represented the continent’s first inhabitants was the Clovis culture. However, the discovery of the ancient tools now challenges that theory, providing evidence that human occupation precedes the arrival of the Clovis people by thousands of years.…

…Moore was arrested and charged with killing a man in Oklahoma City, but his attorney says there was no physical evidence linking him to the crime. …found guilty and handed 2 life sentences without parole.… spent his 20's locked up in a state penitentiary. "Those years, you know. I've been depressed, you know, I almost gave up. I almost gave up, I tried to take my life once or twice…” During his incarceration, Moore crossed paths with his now Fiancée Lola Gaines and things eventually started to turn around. "Once I started committing my life to God, you know what I mean he started doing things for me, he started doing things through her. I feel he put her in my life for a reason,” said Moore. …private investigators… found a key witness who was willing to come forward with new testimony that would prove Moore's innocence.… July 18, 2016 in an Oklahoma County Court, the state dismisses the case and Moore is cleared of all charges. At 11:00 that night Moore walks out the doors of the jail a free man for the first time in 18 years.…

…Funai, the last remaining manufacturer of the VCR, will cease production of the players by the end of the month…

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday officially removed the lesser prairie chicken from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife, fulfilling a federal court ruling and drawing praise from Oklahoma’s oil and natural gas industry.…

Shortly after an appeals court ruled Texas’ voter identification law to have discriminatory effects requiring fixes before the November election, a federal judge released guidelines for a remedy on Thursday.…

Trump accepts Republican nomination, vows to put 'America first'…
Iraq sweats in near-record heatwave…
Amazon to enter student loan business…

A man named Peter Zhurawel drove a burning car into the security barrier at the entrance to a parking garage under a police station in Sydney. Mr. Zhurawel, a Czech national, was severely burned, but no one else was injured. The gas bottles he carried in the car failed to explode. Police have raided his house and carried away various materials. The motive for the attack remains unknown, but Mr. Zhurawel is alleged to have had mental health problems.

In other news, police in Brazil arrested ten people who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and reportedly planned a terror attack during the upcoming Olympics.…

A young man in downtown Brussels who was wearing a long overcoat with wires dangling from it aroused suspicion and was detained by police for four hours. However, it turned out that he was simply a physics student who was conducting an experiment measuring radiation, so he was released.

In other news, the French National Assembly has voted to extend the current state of emergency for another six months.…

Ninety Miles From Tyranny: Today’s Muslim Horoscopes…
Joe For America: Kansas Eliminates Income Tax, Makes $85 Million, Sees Jobs Soar…
This Ain’t Hell: Combat & Anger – Making Excuses For Murderers…

Michelle Malkin: Who Gets Absolute Moral Authority?…
Joe For America: Sheriff Clarke Obliterates CNN Reporter On Anti-Police Rhetoric…
Megan McArdle: Republicans Can’t Praise Trump, So They Bash Clinton…

16,700-Year-Old Tools Found in Texas Change Known History of North America…
The World Looks at Trump, Confused…
Inside Erdogan’s palace: The £500 million mansion Turkey’s president calls home…

6 Top Sex Positions And How to Train For Them…
The War on Sugar…
Clinton to Resettle One Million Muslim Migrants During First Term Alone…

500 elephants relocated in massive man-made African animal migration…
Haidt: When and Why Nationalism Beats Globalism…
Palestinian Children Receive Military Training At Hamas Summer Camps…

Finland: Man Thrown in Prison For Using “Excessive Self-Defense” Against Home Invaders…
Anti-RNC Protesters Lash Out After No One Joins Their Protests…
Environmentalists Voyage to Show Arctic Ice is Shrinking, Get Blocked by Ice…

No need to be kind, forget the rewind…
Governnemt work means never having to take responsibility…
It's just not the U.S.A. the entire world is going f*#&!@% nuts…

…On this day in 1934 outside Chicago's Biograph Theater, John Dillinger was gunned down by FBI agents after being ratted out by a madam who he did business with.…

…Tim Kaine has enjoyed support from the National Muslim Democratic Council, the communist-aligned Alliance for Retired Americans, and one of the most vile and influential organizations you never heard of: Council for a Livable World. In the 2012 election, Tim Kaine was supported by the Asian American Action Fund. The “socialist infiltrated, anti-Israel ‘two state solution’ JStreet PAC endorsed Tim Kaine in 2012, 2014 and 2016.…

Hillary Clinton Selects Tim Kaine As Her Running Mate

Mrs Clinton broke the news in a text message to her supporters. She plans a formal announcement on Saturday.…

Police have closed an Ohio restaurant after an officer cut his mouth on glass shards while eating his sandwich.

A worker at the Lincoln Cafe on 740 East Long Street in Columbus Ohio, allegedly served the officer a sandwich containing pieces of broken glass Monday afternoon.… Columbus Public Health found small pieces of broken glass in a drainboard under a drying track… On Tuesday morning, the department said 'there is no reason to believe it was intentional'.…

Protester lit flag on fire, then lit himself on fire, catching others on fire. Flames extinguished by firefighters. No serious injuries.

Wednesday marks the 47th anniversary of when NASA astronauts first landed on the moon, a giant leap of an accomplishment that still resonates today, over four and a half decades later.…

Texas’ voter identification law violates the U.S. law prohibiting racial discrimination in elections, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.

The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed previous rulings that the 2011 voter ID law — which stipulates the types of photo identification election officials can and cannot accept at the polls — does not comply with the Voting Rights Act.…

Of course Obama lied to us…
TX Voter ID law rejected by 5th Circuit…
Café where cop had glass in his sammich is closed…

…On this day in 1865 in the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shot and killed Davis Tutt in what is thought to be the first western showdown and gunfight. Contrary to TV Westerns, these gunfights were actually rare.…

…As he appeared on stage, Cruz basked in a minute-long standing ovation. Cruz finished second to Trump in the crowded Republican primary campaign and congratulated the GOP nominee on his victory.

But as close as Cruz came to saying he wanted Trump to win the White House came when he said: "I want to see the principles that our party believes in prevail in November."

Cruz didn't tell the convention crowd that he plans to vote for Trump. Nor did he ask his supporters, hundreds of whom encouraged him to run for president in four years at an event on Wednesday afternoon, to vote for the newly minted Republican nominee.…

So I went down to Public Square today to see what the protest scene was like and you have never seen so many police in one place in all your life. If there were 1,500 people there, 300 of them were protesters, 400 were media covering the protests, and 800 were cops. This was cool, because the protesters absolutely hate cops.…

Twitter permanently banned conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos from its platform Tuesday night, prompting immediate accusations that the social-media giant was suppressing free speech.…

Monday on ABC’s “The View…” co-host Joy Behar said …

Cleveland - Members of the KKK, Black Lives Matter, and Westboro Baptist Church reportedly threw urine at each other and police had to step in in an attempt to keep the peace…

'My husband is with his girlfriend and I've never felt so lonely': Polyamorous people reveal the downsides to having multiple lovers on secrets-sharing app
Polyamorous people have spoken via the secrets-sharing app, Whisper
Men and women reveal the downsides to having multiple partners
Many touch on feelings of jealousy, loneliness and shame …

A Yale University dining services worker who resigned after smashing a stained-glass window depicting slaves has gotten his old job back.…

Stop the presses! John Kerry makes correct statement…
Obama's true colors show…
German train attacker appears in ISIS video…

…On this day in 1934 police in Minneapolis fired upon striking communist truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven. Yes, nearly all of the initial unions in the US during the 30s were communist organizations.…

American Power: Patricia Smith – “I Blame Hillary Clinton Personally For The Death of My Son”…
Dustbury: Strange Search Engine Queries, #546…
Jammie Wearing Fools: GQ “Journalist” On Pat Smith – “I Would Like To Beat Her To Death”…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continued his purge of potential enemies by firing tens of thousands of state employees, most of them in education. All 1,577 university deans were among those dismissed. It was also revealed that during the coup, anti-Christian groups or individuals took advantage of the chaotic situation to attack several major churches.

In other news, migrants at a refugee center in southern Italy staged a revolt, barricading themselves inside until the authorities met their demands, which included improved living conditions and more cell phones.…

Donald Trump has officially been nominated by the Republican Party as its candidate to contest the presidential election.…

Afghan Teenager ‘Self-Radicalised’ Before Axe And Knife Attack On German Train

Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said notes suggesting self-radicalisation and a hand-painted flag of the Islamic State (IS) group were found in the 17-year-old asylum seeker’s room.

The IS group earlier claimed responsibility for the attack.…

July 18, 2016 – Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo has signed a bill legalizing the production and processing of industrial hemp for commercial purposes in the state, setting the foundation to nullify federal prohibition in practice.…

Groundbreaking radio telescope has discovered 1,300 galaxies in the sky
It discovered them in small area where only 70 had previously been spotted
South Africa's MeerKAT radio telescope will eventually boast 64 receptors
When it spotted the galaxies the system was only working at a quarter of its eventual capacity

True confession: I didn’t watch the convention last night. Mr. Bookworm, whose politics don’t align with mine, got to the TV first.

I did read about it, however, and I came away with the impression that it was a blessing that so many turncoat GOP operatives stayed away. Frankly, operatives are dull. Instead, this convention put up real people, with real concerns.…

Are Campus Bureaucrats Incapable of Respecting Free Speech?…
Muslims Were The Real Victims Of The Nice Terror Attack, The BBC Explains…
Erdogan Purges 20,000 As Europe Voices Concern Coup Was Staged With "Prepared Arrest Lists"…

Residents of an apartment building in Vienna called police when a man named Ismail S. went on a rampage, damaging objects. When he lunged at police with two large knives, an officer shot him dead. No motive for the attack has been determined.

In other news, citizens in Nice have built a makeshift “anti-shrine” out of stones and trash at the spot where the truck jihadi Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel was stopped and killed by police. Pedestrians stop and spit on the pile when they walk past.…

U.S. says hopes to raise in excess of $2 billion in aid for Iraq…
North Korea launches three more ballistic missiles…
49,000 kids dying of malnutrition linked to Boko Haram…

Michelle Malkin: Stop Playing Social Justice Warriors, Facebook!…
American Thinker: Obama’s Divide-And-Rule Presidency…
The Jawa Report: Fatwa This! Australopithecus Islamicus…

R.N.C. convention starts out as a Cluster…
R.N.C. convention finishes as a Cluster…
It's official, Debbie Wassermann Schultz is F*^@ Nuts…

…On this day in 1919 during Peace Day celebrations marking the end of World War I, ex-servicemen rioted and burned down Luton Town Hall in Luton, GB. I included this because over the past several weeks we have had a few discussions about the changes in England following WWI. This was one of the first major indicators that things were not going to go back to the way they were in the rigid class system.

Dilbert creator Scott Adams responded Tuesday to accusations that potential First Lady Melania Trump plagiarized her Republican National Convention speech Monday night from Michelle Obama’s 2008 speech at the Democratic National Convention.… “It could happen so easily that people would genuinely not know that they had plagiarized it.…"

…Placing Melania side-by-side along images of Michelle Obama is going to backfire all over these idiots…

…All of these speeches by potential first ladies are pretty cookie cutter in their message – working hard to get ahead and raising a beautiful family.

But I think the right are authentic and speaking from the heart and telling the truth when they talk about the hardscrabble life leading to prosperity if you have a virtuous plan and stick to it.

The left is faking it.…

…The fact is, you can go back and look at Laura Bush’s speech, Nancy Reagan, and even Hillary when she was first lady and find the same type of comments.…

…Michelle Obama stole her “values” in her 2008 speech from a 1992 Book by African Author Rob Marsh – “Business success in South Africa”…

…Muslim fired upon a police officer with an AK-47 — and the mainstream media is silent…

…My fellow Americans we can not continue allowing the Left to pull the same dirty trick on us to get their way. First, they launch a media blitz promoting a false reality about one of their agenda items. Then, the Left demands that we embrace their lie or suffer being branded divisive and haters.…

…Let’s recollect how poor Ms Kopechne lost her not-exactly-society-connected life on this, the 47th anniversary of her death.…

Jenna and Jillian were born in a 'one in 10,000 monoamniotic birth'. At the time when they were delivered, the twins immediately reached out to hold each other's hands…

6,000 detained after failed Turkish military coup, including commander of US-linked base…
Wounded fight for life in Nice as killer's brother tells of pre-attack call…
Kerry: ISIL ‘on the run’ despite attacks…

Why Turtles Evolved Shells: It Wasn't for Protection…
Why you should care that the Diablo Canyon nuke plants are being shut down…
Merkel Must Face Trial for War Crimes…

Cleveland police union urges governor to suspend open-carry gun law…
5 big lies from Obama’s Dallas memorial service…
Cleveland Plans On Arresting Thousands…

…Blacks and Muslims should be angry at their criminal cohorts, not at us.…

A former member of the Nation of Islam shot and killed three police officers in Baton Rouge before being shot to death himself. Several other policemen were wounded, one of them critically. The killer had made Internet videos raving against “crackers”, but Baton Rouge police say there appears to be no racial element to the murders.

In other news, the latest information on Mohamed Bouhlel, the man who committed the jihad massacre in Nice on Bastille Day, is that he sent €100,000 home to Tunisia just before he became a shahid. Information on his phone shows that he texted several friends (some of whom have been arrested) about his plans just before beginning his massacre. He reportedly also conducted sexual liaisons with both men and women via dating sites.…

She already makes sense…
R.O.P. wonderful evangelism outreach…
Ooops! Did we do that?…

…On this day in 1969 a drunken Ted Kennedy about to go boff his latest squeeze ran his car off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island and left the car in the water. Mary Jo Kappechne was later pulled from the car where they found evidence that she had been still alive and was trying to claw her way out. Good old Teddy had left the scene somehow thinking he could avoid the mess.…

…A photo of Mike Pence enjoying a “quick dinner” with his family at one of the restaurant chain’s Big Apple locations has sparked countless accusations on social media that his daughter is a vampire.…

…The challenges to the rules would have two big effects: 1, delegates would be unbound, but also 2, it would reject the consolidation of power in a whole host of areas in the RNC and Reince Priebus.… Annnnddd... this being the corrupt Republican Party you've learned to loathe, they ignored the fact that the signatures to force a role-call vote were present, and just held the voice vote, and immediately claimed "the ayes have it." Mike Lee is attempting to protest, calling out "Point of order! Point of order!," so they, get this, just turned off his microphone…

…Police in Cleveland say they aim to avoid mass arrests at the protests planned for next week’s Republican National Convention, but preparations by the city’s courts to process up to 1,000 people a day have some civil rights activists worried.…

…French authorities arrested an Albanian couple Sunday in connection with the Nice terror attacks… French authorities said six people are in custody in connection with the attacks.…

RT: Local authorities block access to air base in Turkey that houses US nukes…

(CNN) A man with a gun opened fire on police officers in Baton Rouge on Sunday, injuring at least seven -- including three who are feared dead, an official said.…

Ynetnews reports: Several pipe bombs were found in the middle of downtown Jerusalem at the Jaffa street light rail stop during Sunday morning rush hour.…

Democrats Recreate 1968 and 1972…
Clinton Endorsement Backfires as Sanders’ Supporters Look to Jill Stein…
AG Lynch refuses to say giving classified information to people without a clearance is wrong…

The coup that wasn’t and the coup that could be. The more news that comes out of Turkey, the more I believe that what happened there was a coup in the same way that the Reichstag fire was a “coup” — it was a staged event that gave a despot the authority to wipe out the last of his opposition.…

The news feed is almost non-existent tonight. Perhaps our tipsters were all trapped in Incirlik Air Base when the Turkish government cut the power.

The big stories of the day concern the aftershocks from the attempted military coup in Turkey. Thousands of soldiers and judges have been rounded up and arrested. At least one soldier was allegedly beheaded by a pro-Erdogan mob on the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul. Turkish authorities cut power to the Incirlik Air Base used by NATO forces and refused to allow any flights in or out. The German defense minister was reportedly denied entry to the base.

In other news, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said that Mohamed Salmene Lahouaiej Bouhlel, the perpetrator of Thursday’s truck-jihad massacre in Nice, appears to have been radicalized rapidly, thereby escaping the notice of the security services.…

Time for political elites to stand up to sharia…
Here’s how the liberal media already is attacking Mike Pence…
Your Car’s Been Studying You Closely and Everyone Wants the Data…

…Due to invasion of in-laws and me not getting to bed until after midnight I have no news link this morning. After I finish breakfast and morning drugs I will post links one at a time.

…“In case you were wondering, we exclusively support the Margarita Party,” Chili’s tweeted Saturday night, following the Republican vice presidential pick’s now famous feast.… hours of internet jokes and occasional outrage at the Indiana governor’s selection for his post-VP speech meal.…

The Voice of Reason During the Islamic Terror Aftermath

…Turkey’s Bosporus, the 31-kilometer (19-mile) waterway transecting historic Byzantium — the present-day sprawling metropolis of Istanbul — provides an instructive metaphor for roiling Turkish scandals.…

…President Obama on ISIS: “We’re going to win this fight by…never giving up on diplomacy.” … Yeah, since that diplomacy is working out so well.…

…President Erdogan has vowed revenge for the bloody military coup that killed at least 60 people after his supporters clashed with the rebel forces in the streets of Turkey.…

Law enforcement sources in Nice confirmed Friday that the July 14 terror attack was cut short by a citizen who jumped into the cab of the semi-truck and fought with the terrorist driving the vehicle.… driver… was distracted and slowed by the citizen, allowing police to position, open fire, and end the attack. … …“the man had hurled himself into the cab when the 20 tonne truck was held up by an obstruction. He wrestled with the driver, who seized a revolver and fired several shots at the man and at police officers who arrived on the scene. None was hurt. The driver was then shot dead by two officers.”…

Of course he did. Because as I keep saying and BEGGING people to comprehend, islam is not a religion, it is a political system. All of the seemingly-religious aspects are pure theater, which only the truly gullible (due often to low IQs resulting from centuries of epidemic inbreeding) follow.…

…French Special Forces defused an explosive-laden truck parked on a highway near Nice… bomb disposal operation was conducted on a highway near Nice where a truck attack occurred Thursday night. French police have detained one person…

…Four teenage boys …found themselves stuck in an underground cave system that spans 72 square miles. They entered what are known as the Box mines in Hawthorn, Wiltshire, scouting the series of underground tunnels for Pokemon. Unfortunately, they couldn't get back out, but they lucked upon an opening that allowed service to their cell phones and called for help.…

…My word but Canadians are insufferable, self righteous, arrogant little shits. Some day they will go too far and we will send the Michigan National Guard to conquer their country as a weekend training exercise.…

This is going to be the warmest summer in nearly a year.

…We are witnessing what happens when Liberals are allowed to run things on the global stage. Total freaking anarchy…

Watch: Colorado Black Bear Locks Itself in Car…
Fun-Hating Socialist Magazine Jacobin Says PokemonGo Must Be Destroyed…
Liberal Logic: Free press applies only to quill pens and hand presses!'…

The big news of the day is that the Turkish military attempted to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a coup. Mr. Erdogan communicated with his followers by iPhone and skype from an undisclosed location, telling them to take to the streets to resist the coup, which they did. A number of explosions were heard in Ankara and Istanbul, including air strikes on the parliament building. There were reports that Mr. Erdogan attempted to leave the country, but was denied permission to land in Germany. Forces loyal to the president eventually got the situation under control (at least for now), and he returned to Istanbul where he was greeted by ecstatic followers.

In other news, the statistical bureau of the German government reports that Germany took in a record two million migrants last year.…

NBC, CNN Blame France for ‘Disenfranchisement’ and ‘Isolation’ of Muslims…
Most U.S. Mosques Teach Violence…
EXCLUSIVE – Cleveland Police have Issued “Stand Down” Order at RNC…

…On this day in 1790 the District of Columbia was established as the capital of the United States after signature of the Residence Act. This was a compromise brokered by Thomas Jefferson because the advocates of the VA-MD site did not have enough votes in congress at the time to move the capitol from NYC to Washington, DC.…

Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump officially announced Indiana Gov. Mike Pence as his running mate in a tweet on Friday, but the two appeared together for the first time in New York City on Saturday morning, where the billionaire touted the duo as the “law and order candidates.”…

…In a statement, the Turkish military claims that it has taken over.…

…A woman claims her fifteen year old daughter was hit by a car while playing Pokemon Go. …Tarentum, PA …the girl crossed a busy highway shortly after catching a Pokemon on the game.

…girl's mother, told a local news station that the game had lured her daughter across the highway during rush hour.… …girl sustained collarbone and foot injuries, as well as numerous cuts and bruises.…

ENCINITAS, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say two men who were playing "Pokemon Go" fell off an ocean bluff in Southern California. …One man fell about 50 feet down the side of the unstable bluff and the other fell about 90 feet to the beach. …moderate injuries.…

The New York man who wrapped his car around a tree while playing “Pokémon Go” is a former Marine who was trying to “catch” Lapras, a blue sea creature, right before the crash Tuesday night.…

A Chinese space lab is bound to come back to Earth relatively soon, but when and where this happens is a matter of debate and speculation.…

Dr. Tzur Gabi, a dentist from West Hollywood, California practicing in nearby Brentwood, was in Nice, France during the terror attack on Bastille Day — directly in the path of the truck that killed dozens of people. He was saved by his Israeli girlfriend, Meital, who pulled him from the crowd when she sensed that something was about to happen.…

EBL: Why The Media Sucks – Trump’s Appropriate Reaction To Nice Terror Attack Gets Spun…
American Thinker: Why Justice Ginsburg Fears Trump…
Megan McArdle: Judge Not Your Neighbor’s Love For Mac & Cheetos…

Philippines… president tells citizens to 'go ahead and kill' drug users.…
France investigating whether truck attacker acted alone…
Republicans quash last-ditch attempt to stop Donald Trump becoming nominee…

George Eastman and Kodak film…
Following Minimum Wage Increases, Unemployment Spikes among Black Male Teens…
Obama Invites Inciters of Cop-Killers to the White House…

Live rounds and tear gas were used to disperse rioting inmates in Goulburn Prison in Australia. Officials for the prison guards’ union say the violence was sparked by the efforts of Muslim prisoners to convert others to Islam. However, prison authorities in New South Wales deny that Islam was an issue in the unrest.

In other news, the death toll in the jihad massacre in Nice has risen, and is now possibly as high as 75. The slain driver of the killer truck is said to have been a 31-year-old city resident of Tunisian origin. He reportedly cried “Allahu Akhbar” as he drove his truck through the crowd.…

Government is universally corrupt…
Government is inept…
Government is apathetic…

…On this day in 1823 a fire almost completely destroyed the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome, Italy. The church was originally constructed on the site of the grave of St. Paul around 370 AD. The fire was caused by a negligent workman pouring molten lead on the roof for repairs. It was rebuilt and reopened in 1840. Although outside, The Vatican it is owned and maintained by the Vatican.

… 'Bodies are lying everywhere, gunmen are targeting hotels, nobody knows what to do - except hide'… Witnesses said the driver crashed his truck into a group of people, jumped down and opened fire with a gun - footage shows bodies strewn in street…

Experts have unearthed stunning mosaics depicting Noah’s Ark and the parting of the Red Sea during the excavation of an ancient synagogue in northern Israel.… dates back to the fifth century…

A 14-year-old boy identified only as “James” showed up at the Omaha, Nebraska Police Department with a trumpet, and without fanfare, honored police officers killed in Dallas.

The teen played “Taps,” the traditional bugle call performed at military funerals, as he stood at Omaha’s memorial to its own fallen officers.…

HILARIOUS FACEBOOK VIDEO SLAMMING ‘BLACK LIVES MATTER’ ANTI-COP BLACKS GOES SUPER-VIRAL!!… Matt from my Sooperpodcast sent this to me, and wow, it made me laugh so hard. So I’m gonna share it with you, but I must caution you, it has some graphic language, and most of the humor is… earthy.…

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg… issued a statement on Thursday saying she regrets her “ill-advised” remarks about presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.

“On reflection, my recent remarks in response to press inquiries were ill-advised and I regret making them,” Ginsburg stated on Thursday. “Judges should avoid commenting on a candidate for public office. In the future I will be more circumspect.”…

EBL: Why Does An All-Female Ghostbusters Suck?…
This Ain’t Hell: Chicago Ordered To Pay NRA’s Court Costs…
Megan McArdle: Sexual Harassment Is Invisible To 50% Of The Population…

No food is moral or healthy to eat: The Neurotic Eater’s Grocery List…
Trump Gets It Right On Reforming the VA…
The Iran Nuclear Deal After One Year: Assessment and Options for the Next President…

In the new British cabinet under Prime Minister Theresa May, Boris “BoJo” Johnson, the hirsute former mayor of London, has become Foreign Secretary, replacing Philip Hammond, who becomes Chancellor of the Exchequer. The only top Tory without a chair when the music stopped seems to be George Osborne, the former chancellor, who is now out of the government.

In other news, Brussels police say the explosions and fire that destroyed several cars tonight have nothing to do with terrorism.…

22 schoolgirls 'suffered mass demonic possession' and foamed at mouth after playing game of 'Charlie Charlie'…
Yale worker destroys stained-glass window that offends him, college destroys the rest for him…
The fact is we are ruled over by irresponsibly reckless idiots paid for
by a global elite that has no concern for the governance of our
countries…

Michelle Malkin: Congressional Black Corruption…
American Thinker: Chicago’s Collapse Has Begun…
Joe For America: Trump Surging, Leading In Key States…

Jammie Wearing Fools: Of Course – Five Shot At Baltimore Murder Victim Candlelight Vigil…
JustOneMinute: Lots Of News…
Shark Tank: Rubio Says He Won’t Accept Presidential Nomination From Convention Floor…

The democratic socialist presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has finally conceded that his candidacy is over by announcing his support for Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democrat nominee. Many of his devoted supporters say they feel betrayed by his reconciliation with the rival he reviled for so long, but it’s not clear whether any of those committed idealists will switch their support to Donald Trump.

In other news, two high-speed trains collided head-on near Bari in southern Italy, killing at least 27 people and injuring many others.…

So what. What are you going to do? …
Don't know about you, but I never saw this coming…
So Math experts, this doesn't look good, does it?…

…On this day in 1798 the Sedition Act became law in the United States making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government. This act was part of the Alien and Sedition Acts which were blatantly unconstitutional. They were passed under the desires of that great hero Mr Big Government John Adams. As soon as Jefferson became President they were all repealed except the Alien Enemies Act which is still in force today.…

…As each congressman pressed for answers to their specific -- and very simple -- questions, Lynch referred them to outside sources, namely FBI Director James Comey's statements on the agencies decision to clear Hillary Clinton.

Even when asked if going 10 miles per hour above the speed limit is breaking the law, Lynch was unable to answer. Georgia Rep. Doug Collins was so frustrated with Lynch's non-answers that he just wanted to hear a "yes" or "no" out of her mouth. So, he posed the question, "The speed limit says, "55," I'm doing 65. Have I broke the law?"

Lynch responded, "You'd have to ask the highway patrol. They would likely write you a ticket."…

A man armed with an AK-47 is alleged to have entered a Waffle House in DeSoto, Texas, in the early morning hours last Thursday… After following the man out of the Waffle House, the customer called out to the robber who turned and pointed the rifle at him. The customer fired several shots from his handgun and stopped the robber. …transported to a local hospital where he remains in critical condition. … No charges have been filed against the customer.…

U.S. intel warns: ISIS not desperate, just ‘adapting’…
Sharia: Illinois To Create Official State Government Muslim Council…
U.S. Imam: “Muslims Have The right To Take The Property Of filthy Christians And Jews”…

Gaza crossing opening for goods for first time in nine years…
China to ignore international court ruling over South China Sea rights…
Bernie Sanders says, 'my job' is to make sure Hillary Clinton is elected President…

Salt, wound. Some assembly required….
A fool and "their" money is soon parted…
What's taking them so long?…

…On this day in 1863 in New York City, opponents of the draft and the war with the South began three days of rioting which were regarded as the worst in United States history. NYC had strong economic ties to the South and was opposed to what they called Lincoln's war. And this was compounded by an unfair draft that allowed rich people to buy themselves out of the draft.

The Republican Party Platform approved by the Platform Committee this week in Cleveland adopted Donald Trump’s call for a security wall on America’s southern border as part of the solution to the nation’s broken immigration system, as well as safeguarding national security.…

A large group of patriotic motorcycle enthusiasts will be among the visitors to Cleveland Ohio next week for the Republican National Committee meeting that will nominate business mogul Donald Trump to be the Republican nominee for President of the United States.

Bikers for Trump aren’t going to Cleveland looking to cause trouble but will be on hand to counter thousands of professional leftwing agitators planning to disrupt the Republican nominating convention.…

…From the left’s perspective, it does not matter if the black man is beating your head against the sidewalk, charging at you down the street, wrestling with you to pull his gun, or reaching for an illegally owned pistol during a legitimate traffic stop. If you shoot the black man, the left gives you less consideration than if you shot a clerk at a 7-11.…

In a macabre hit piece, the Washington Post has launched a smear campaign against important Christian leaders who espouse Biblical morality on homosexuality, labeling them as “enemies of equality.”…

This remarkable and shocking video comes from a “Black Lives Matter” meeting in Portland. Several black speakers advocate for violence against police openly. And they scorn white people for sitting there applauding too.…

Despite remaining under scrutiny for liberal bias, Facebook has used the aftermath of the Dallas shootings to pander to Black Lives Matter, hoisting a giant banner featuring the slogan on their Menlo Park Campus this weekend.…

On July 11… Micheal Moore …

…Yup. There he is, Mr. Caring. Mr. Great Healer, striding ahead of the crippled old man with a cane while the “behaving stupidly” Cambridge police sergeant James Crowley helps the old man down the stairs.

This one official picture reveals far more about Barack Obama than the White House intended.…

…All that matters to Barack Obama is what use he can get out of their deaths.

If you suffer through listening to his speech today, keep in mind this picture from the Beer Summit.…

Mission to Mariana Trench Records Dozens of Crazy Deep Sea Creatures

The Okeanos Explorer has spent three months mapping the seafloor and recording deep sea life in the ocean's depths…

#BlackLivesMatter encounter a group of good ol’ boy counter-protesters. Must see video.

Toronto mosque’s online guide: Chopping off thieves’ hands will decrease crime rate…
Black Lives Matter Attorney: Dismantle And Abolish The Police…
Map of Sanctuary Cities & States…

American Thinker: The Law Is Dying Because Morality Is Dying…
Jammie Wearing Fools: Pathetic Clinton Blames “Negativity”, Not Her Criminal Behavior, For Low Approval Ratings…
Joe For America: America Now Entering The Stone Age?…

Dam Good! Beavers May Restore Imperiled Streams, Fish Populations…
Universities’ war against truth - Having beliefs and expressing them is no longer tolerated and the contagion is spreading…
The Extraordinary Perils of the Ordinary Cop…

British Prime Minister David Cameron will step down on Wednesday, fulfilling his promise to resign after the Brexit vote. What will we do without Oily Dave to kick around anymore? I have dozens of photos of the PM making unusual faces, ones that I haven’t got around to using yet.

His replacement will be the “conservative” Theresa May (my cousin, the black ewe of the family), who promises Britons a bright future, thanks to more Muslim immigration and the implementation of sharia law.…

Democrat Senators to behave recklessly on Senate floor…
Thousands convicted wrongly by unreliable drug tests…
ObamaAdministration, see no evil, hear no evil when it comes to Iran…

…On this day in 1862 the Medal of Honor was authorized by the United States Congress. This is the reason it is sometimes incorrectly referred to as the Congressional Medal of Honor. It is normally presented by the President but can be presented by any official which is sometimes done by request.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed legislation this week that severely restricts freedom of religion by prohibiting any religious speech or evangelization outside of places of worship.…

A leaked police document shows that 2,000 men assaulted over 1,200 women across Germany on New Year’s Eve.

The police have only caught 120 suspects. Foreigners make up the majority of suspects, which shows that the increase of refugees and migrants is linked to the rising sexual assault and rape cases across the European Union.…

We’re having a great time here at Lake Typhoid! Scoutmaster Webb is making us all write to our parents in case you saw the flood on TV and got worried.…

…Through conversations with friends and family, the “United We Stand” campaign was born. Our simple effort to educate parents exploded into a national campaign to tell the White House and Obama “No.”

Our message was that this radical agenda of subjective “gender fluidity” and unrestricted shower and bathroom access actually endangers all.…

Micah Xavier Johnson, the sniper who murdered five Dallas police officers and wounded a number of others, reportedly had plans for a much larger attack that would have involved explosives. He also is reported to have scrawled cryptic messages in his own blood on the walls of the parking garage where he was eventually killed.

In other news, after the Kuwaiti government initially approved plans for the building of churches in Kuwait, the projects were vetoed by the country’s parliament because they violate sharia law.…

U.S. to send more troops to Iraq ahead of Mosul offensive…
North Korea threatens 'physical response' to anti-missile system…
More than 300 dead as South Sudan capital is rocked by violence…

Japan's dying villages…
Video: Giant Human Slingshot…
Stop Freaking Out About Porn…

Hungary seals border- Sends 10,000 Police to stop migrant surge…
German leftists RIOT — evicted to make room for migrants they once welcomed…
Iran’s Illegal Attempts to Buy Chemical Weapons Technology…

Take a number, Junior…
Chuckle worthy…
Truth, stranger than fiction…

…On this day in 1804 the infamous duel occurred in which the Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton. At that time dueling was illegal but Burr managed to get the charges dropped. Burr was later charged with treason for his escapades on the frontier for which the evidence says he was guilty. But thanks to the efforts of John Marshall, an Adams appointee,nnd and one piece of faulty evidence he got off. …

Black Lives Matter Protests Spread To Germany… Residents of Berlin stopped traffic in protest…

Black Lives Matter Protesters Bring London to Standstill… British branch of the movement staged protests for three days on the streets of the capital.…

…While thousands of demonstrators flooded the streets of major U.S. cities again Saturday night -- protesting the recent killings by police of black men Philando Castile in suburban St. Paul, Minnesota, and Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana -- a demonstration in St. Paul took a particularly violent turn, with participants hurling Molotov cocktails, fireworks, rocks, glass bottles, concrete slabs, and bricks at riot gear-wearing police officers.

And between demonstrations in Baton Rouge and St. Paul alone, there were more than 200 arrests.…

Twenty-one officers from various Minnesota law enforcement agencies were injured and more than 102 protestors were arrested as a demonstration on the I-94 freeway in St. Paul turned violent Saturday night, with protestors hurling rocks, bottles, fireworks and bricks at law enforcement officers on the scene.…

…A black cop, Jay Stalien wrote about his feelings on Facebook. I encourage you to visit his Facebook page and read the message in its entirety.…

…The O'Fallon Police Department in Missouri responded to reports early this morning that a group of Pokemon GO players were robbed at gunpoint. … robbers used Lure Modules to attract players to a nearby PokeStop and then robbed them at gunpoint.… suspects were later apprehended…

…A Cornell University professor charged that the Fraternal Order of Police is “a terrorist organization” at a Black Lives Matter protest in Ithaca, New York on Friday.…

…Newt Gingrich… responds to a racial militant assassinating five police officers by echoing Black Lives Matter rhetoric in a video with self-described “rowdy black nationalist” Van Jones…

…We stand for racial justice… #BlackLivesMatter…

More than 600 pounds of lucky lobsters were spared the pot Saturday, thanks to compassionate monks on Prince Edward Island. …bought the lobsters from various places… boarded a fishing boat and released them back into the ocean off the coast of Wood Islands.

“Hopefully, we can find a spot where there are no cages waiting for them…”

A mother shot during the attack on police officers in Dallas said of the officers, “They were really heroes for us.” Shetamia Taylor said during an emotional press conference that the officers saved her life and the lives of her sons.…

Osama Bin Laden’s Son Vows Revenge Against US For Killing His Father In Video Posted Online

India - Najih Shaker Al-Baldawi, a local resident of Balad city in Iraq stopped a suicide bomber from …ISIS… from claiming many lives at his town’s Sayyed Mohammad Shrine.… physically stopped the terrorist from entering the shrine, hugging him before his explosive laden vest detonated, killing them.…

Hillary Clinton Is Above The Law…
Joe Biden: “Take away their money” if colleges don’t judge all accused students as rapists…
European Police Admit “Banning Guns Has Not Worked” Terrorists Have Them “Outgunned”…

A Russian military helicopter was shot down by Islamic State fighters in Syria, killing two airmen onboard. Some analysts assert that the chopper was downed by an American-made missile originally supplied to anti-regime “rebel” groups.

In other news, a third Italian child, this one in Milan, has been hospitalized for severe malnutrition after being kept on a strict vegan diet by his parents.…

…On this day in 1925 in Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" of John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.…

…Now Broaddrick has for the first time publically confirmed her account that Clinton raped her twice.

She said that after the first round, in which the much stronger Clinton had her pinned down for a period of time, she was relieved when she thought it was over and was hoping he would leave the room.

Instead, she says Clinton turned to her and told her words to the effect of “I am going to do it again.”…

The Arabic name of the Dallas mass murder of the brave police officers (who ran towards the gunfire in order to save the people protesting them) was Fahed Hassen. according to Denver Police Department

How much was Fahed motivated by Islam, the Nation of Islam, ISIS and Black Liberation Theology? It’s all of a piece.…

A Catholic church in Lyon, France, has sold off statues of monks killed by Muslims, for fear they will provoke attacks.…

A Black Lives Matter protest led to mass arrests Friday night in Rochester, New York…

Minneapolis: Muslims screaming “JIHAD!” rampage through neighborhood, tell woman “We can KIDNAP you and RAPE you”…

Following the racist murder of white police officers by a black power fist-yielding shooter, Twitter decided to add three black fists to accompany #BlackLivesMatter Friday.

Emojis are offered in five skin tones total, yet Twitter chose the three darkest. As of Saturday the fists still accompany the hashtag.…

…New York Times columnist David Brooks argued that in the discussions after the shooting of police officers in Dallas, and the shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, “it doesn’t help that we have an American political debate with basically one all-white party.”…

Facebook has refused to remove a graphic image depicting a policeman having his throat slit…

Imagine a planet with triple sunrises and sunsets every day for part of the year, and nonstop daylight at other times.

Astronomers revealed such a place Thursday: a strange new world in the Constellation Centaurus that has not one, not two, but three suns. What's more, a year there lasts half a millennium from Earth's perspective.…

Five law enforcement officers were killed Thursday in a sniper attack in downtown Dallas as they patrolled a protest against recent police-involved shootings. Here is what we know about the victims who have been identified as Dallas police officers Lorne Ahrens, Michael Krol, Patrick Zamarripa, Michael Smith and Dallas transit officer Brent Thompson.…

A man named Lakeem Keon Scott went on a shooting rampage in Bristol, Tennessee, killing a newspaper carrier and wounding three other people, including a police officer. The alleged shooter was shot by police and is now being treated in the hospital. He is said to have been angry over recent incidents where black men were shot by white police officers. The shooting may have been racially motivated.

Meanwhile, the killing of five police officers in Dallas last night is now thought to be the work of a single sniper, a former soldier named Micah Xavier Johnson.

In other news, in Valdosta, Georgia, an Asian man named Stephen Paul Beck put in a fake 911 call about a robbery in order to lure police into an ambush. He exchanged fire with responding officers, was wounded, and is now recovering in the hospital. A police officer was also wounded, and is being treated.…

90 Miles From Tyranny: Why Does Hillary Clinton Dress Like Chairman Mao?…
Joe For America: Black Power Political Organization – “We Will Kill More Cops”…
Megan McArdle: Clinton’s College Plan Flunks The Economics Test…

Loretta Lynch Gives Shout-Out to Black Lives Matter: ‘Do Not Be Discouraged’…
Chuck Todd: Tough to Train ‘Prejudice and Hate’ Out of Police Hearts…
Congressional Black Caucus Uses Police Shootings As An Excuse To Call For New Gun Control Laws…

Hate Group Urges Gangs To Kill Cops After Dallas Shootings…
After importing thousands, Canadians now say Muslims have ‘fundamentally different values’…
Arizona: “American Jihadist” plotted to “take out marines and jews,” bomb DMV…

…On this day in 1981 Donkey Kong by Nintendo, was released. The game also marked the debut of Nintendo's future mascot, Mario.

Oklahoma -
For the past two months, Gov Fallin's name has appeared on the VP watch list. She has met Trump four times and while they've talked issues such as Obamacare, Syrian refugees, and the economy and energy, there have been no specific conversations about joining the ticket.

Fallin said while their styles of communication are drastically different, “Well, we do have different personalities, but I think we share a common passion. And that is the love of America and wanting to see America do well, wanting to make sure that we are safe and secure.”

Even if she is not on the ticket, the Governor will have a vital role at the convention. She's the national co-chair for the party's platform, and the Republican Governor's Association. And she could be tapped to speak again at the convention.…

…former Bill Clinton aide, Dick Morris, revealed to Dennis Michael Lynch how Bill Clinton violently attacked him, and how the Clinton marriage is based on violence.…

…A Virginia man has been charged with attempting to assist the Islamic State by photographing targets in the Washington, D.C., area for what he thought would be a video encouraging lone-wolf terrorist attacks in the nation’s capital.…

Man Calls Police In GA, Reports Break-In, When Cop Arrives, He Is Shot In Ambush… Both men were wounded in the ensuing gunfire, and both are expected to survive.…

…According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, an officer was shot during a traffic stop Friday morning in west St. Louis County. …shot in the neck …suspect was apprehended a short time later in the 800 block of Burgundy Lane after a foot pursuit. …The officer has died.…

A man accused of shooting indiscriminately at passing cars and police on a Tennessee highway told investigators he was angry about police violence against African-Americans… One woman died and three others, including one police officer, were injured in the rampage early Thursday morning …officers have also been targeted in Georgia and Missouri…

…William Johnson, Executive Director of the National Association of Police Organizations… “It’s a war on cops… And the Obama administration is the Neville Chamberlain of this war.”…

…The man who shot 12 police officers, killing five, at a Black Lives Matter protest in downtown Dallas on Thursday night has been named as Micah Xavier Johnson, a 25-year-old with no criminal history or ties to terror groups.

Johnson, from Mesquite, Texas, a 20 minute drive from Dallas, reportedly told law enforcement that he was a US Army Veteran, and claimed to have acted alone, countering reports that as many as four gunmen were involved in the massacre.…

FBI investigating anti-police group that ATTENDED DALLAS MOSQUE…

…Five law enforcement officers are dead. 27 officers have been shot and killed in the line of duty thus far this year. In all of 2015, 39 officers were shot and killed.

War is being waged on our civilian protectors. The drum beat has been constant for nearly two years.…

…This was an attack on all of us and one of the worst days out of nearly seven and a half years of miserable to horrible days we as a nation have had to endure under the worst president, bar none, in American history.…

Dallas police Chief David O.Brown confirmed Friday that the fourth suspect in the ambush that left four officers dead Thursday night did not kill himself but was done in by a bomb detonated by police.… “The suspect said he was upset about Black Lives Matter. He said he was upset about the recent police shootings. The suspect said he was upset at white people,” Brown told reporters. “The suspect stated he wanted to kill white people, especially white officers. The suspect said that we will eventually find the IEDs. The suspect stated he was not affiliated with any groups and he stated that he did this alone.”…

…Twitter …the past three days have brought an onslaught of highly violent calls to action. A search query for phrases such as “kill pigs” “kill police” and such pulls back thousands of posts. Many of these are blatant threats to all police… threats and incitement to violence seen below were all posted before the massacre of police officers in Dallas, Texas. At the time of publication, all the tweets captured below remain on Twitter, and can be found via the site’s search function.…

…A "Black Lives Matter" activist has celebrated the Dallas massacre of five cops on Twitter, following up on her calls a year ago for the lynching of white people and cops.…

UN Statement On Dallas Cop Killings Slams U.S. Police For Being Racists…

…Congressional Black Caucus Press Conference After Dallas: GOP Are “Co-Conspirators In The Devaluation Of The Lives Of Men And Women Of Color”…

In the face of all the ugliness of the last two days, maybe we need to see there's a some good kind people reaching out there.…

Air strikes kill 23 at holiday spot in Syria's Idlib during ceasefire…
US to deploy missiles in S. Korea as North riled…
Four NATO battalions to go to eastern Europe to deter Russia…

During a protest in Dallas about the killing of a black man by a police officer, two snipers opened fire on police. Ten officers were shot, and three have died so far. This is a breaking news story, and new details will probably emerge during the night.

In other news, 25 passengers were injured when a pipe bomb exploded on a train in Taiwan.…

1968 sucked the first time around…
Student: Don’t say ‘step’ because it’s insulting to people who can’t walk…
A better idea: Privatize the Postal System, Abolish a Monopoly…

Louder With Crowder: Let’s Hate Cops! All Facts Are Racist!…
Pamela Geller: Bill O’Reilly Wakes Up To Obama’s Muslim Problem – Eight Years Too Late…
Megan McArdle: Treat Rape Like Every Other Crime…

Survey: Canadians regretting Muslim refugees, believe mainstream Islam promotes violence…
North Korea says US sanctions on Kim Jong Un are ‘declaration of war’…
Iran could be targeting America’s electrical grid with EMP weapon…

Wonder if John Kasich knows about this? …
Shocking! No one saw this coming…
You're grounded, don't do that again…

…On this day in 1775 the Olive Branch Petition was signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies. The petition was intended to try to reconcile with the King of England and try to avoid the coming war. The King refused to accept the petition and had already declared the colonies "in rebellion". It did not help that a "private letter" by John Adams had been intercepted which indicated he was against the petition so the King did not consider the petition to be serious. The original petition had been written by Thomas Jefferson but was rejected because it was considered "too harsh".

Bullet Strikes 9-Year-old Boy In Head At Tulsa FreedomFest

Posted:
Tuesday, July 5, 2016 7:20 AM EDT
Updated:
Tuesday, July 5, 2016 8:27 AM EDT
BY: JOSEPH HOLLOWAY, NEWS ON 6EMAIL
TULSA, Oklahoma - Police say a 9-year-old boy has a bullet stuck in his head after getting shot at Tulsa's FreedomFest fireworks show Monday night.…

…Nick Bilton, Vanity Fair: Are We At The Start Of A Tech World War?

It’s a battle unlike any we’ve ever seen before.…

…This type of treatment is called “precision medicine” because it uses the patient’s genetic information to help target a precise molecule in cancer cells. … Allison took two pills each day for two months and when she went back for a brain scan, doctors there couldn't find any trace of the cancer.…

A young man died after a hole he dug on a Northern California beach collapsed and trapped him in the sand for at least five minutes…

…That is when Martin felt the boy beneath the sand and saw his blue swim trunks. The 3-foot hole the toddler was digging had collapsed on top of him.… “We started digging, and Jesse found this little boy, Brooks, and pulled him out. He was ash grey, he was dead. He was dead. So we pulled him out, and the mom was just beside herself.” Despite the grim situation, the men didn’t give up hope. They administered CPR and within a minute the boy’s lips began to quiver. Within a few more minutes, he was breathing on his own and screaming for his mother.…

Auroras created by high-energy particles are seen on a pole of the planet Jupiter in a NASA composite of two separate images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Three explosions in Taipei train car; 24 injured…
At least three dead in bomb attack during Eid prayers in Bangladesh…
Philippine army: 10 dead in clashes with Islamic militants…

Twitchy: Ted Cruz has The Only Reasonable Response To The FBI’s Disgusting Miscarriage Of Justice…
American Thinker: Why Comey Blinked…
Megan McArdle: Sorry, Republicans. Clinton’s E-Mails Won’t Take Her Down…

I found some clever Hillary cartoons. Before I get to them, though, a word to those who think Comey cleared Hillary. He didn’t. …

Now that we’re the Banana Republic of America, I think it’s time for the #NeverTrump crowd to have a little “Come To Jesus” talk to determine whether they want Hillary the Untouchable, and her entire Leftist panoply of friends and goals, in the White House, or whether they’re willing to gamble on Trump, who at least gives lip service to a strong foreign policy that recognizes the problems with Islamists; supporting Israel; supporting the troops; supporting the Second Amendment; and supporting the pro-Life agenda.

This is not the time for holier (or “politically purer”) than thou. This is where the rubber meets the road. This is the time for imperfect emergency surgery to keep the patient alive, rather than an exquisitely rendered surgery while the patient bleeds out on the operating table.

And now on to the links…

How to Save the Post-Industrial Town?…
Boston Globe Accidentally Reports That Raising the Minimum Wage Kills Jobs…
Can The EU Survive As A Prison? Who Has The Keys?…

Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced today that no charges will be lodged against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the mishandling of classified material on her private email server. The announcement comes a day after FBI Director James Comey recommended that no charges be filed against Mrs. Clinton.

In other news, a Muslim taxi driver in the UK was fired for refusing to transport a blind couple and their guide dog.…

So what! The horse has left the barn…
Human error my butt…
You have got to be kidding me!?!!?…

Spanish Language Facebook Page Alerts Illegal Aliens to Police Checkpoints…
Burka ban comes into force in Switzerland…
Anti-gun prof calls for shooting up NRA, ensuring ‘no survivors’…

… On this day in 1865 Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt were hanged for the murder of Abraham Lincoln. Their trial was an illegal military tribunal and it was a mockery of justice.…

A map of every car bomb explosions in Baghdad since 2003…

…An anti-rape activist said she was even sexually assaulted by three men who were wearing 'don't grope' wristbands distributed by police in an effort to reduce such attacks.…

All-day breakfast places are not that unusual, but a new one that just opened in Tulsa is a little surreal…well, let’s make that “cereal.” …Bowl-n-Spoon, Oklahoma's first cereal bar. … Pajama-clad wait staff …30 kinds of cereal and 20 toppings.…

New book reveals Ice Age mariners from Europe were America’s first inhabitants…
Did Comey Actually Destroy Hillary Clinton by ‘Exonerating’ Her?…
nations lining up to sign trade pacts with post-Brexit Britain…

Iraq sees worst bombing since invasion with 250 deaths…
At least 26 killed in South Yemen army base attack…
Victims of gang violence in Central America flee homes to 'save their lives'…

FBI Director James Comey made a recommendation today that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton not be charged with any criminal offenses for her handling of classified emails on her private email server. Mr. Comey said that there had been irregularities and carelessness in her use of the server, but that he did not think it warranted any charges.

In other news, the cockpit voice recorder of the EgyptAir jet that crashed into the Mediterranean in May shows that the pilot and co-pilot had battled a fire in the plane before it went down.…

Would you upload your brain to a computer? Experts reveal what it would take to live forever digitally…
Dems Promise The Gov’t Will Run On 100% Green Energy…
Belgium Fines Catholic Nursing Home For Refusing To Kill People…

• Pat Condell, 66, from London, has 275,000 subscribers to his monologues
• His video called 'Welcome to a Saudi Britain' was removed from YouTube
• He has been called an 'old fart with a webcam'
• Biography on his website reads: 'I don't care if you are offended'

Don Surber: Heirs Bash The Kennedy Legacy…
JustOneMinute: The Tribe To End All Tribes…
The Jawa Report: Shocking News – Media Outlets Had “Hillary Is Cleared By FBI” Stories Ready To Go…

Super bacteria found near Rio…
Give it up Bernie…
It's bad crap, but worth shooting over?…

…On this day in 1535 Sir Thomas More was executed for treason against King Henry VIII of England. So what was his treason? He was a devout Catholic and he refused to acknowledge Henry VIII as head of the Church in England.

…According to the EU Commission president, “Following BREXIT, leaders of other planets are worried”
During a speech on the 28th of June in the European Parliament in Brussels, EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker confused attendees when he started talking about what appear to be extraterrestrials.…

Noel Neill, the first actress to portray the iconic role of DC Comics character Lois Lane onscreen, passed away Sunday at age 95…