Blog Heap of Links for the day 17 July 2016

…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.…