Blog Heap of Links for the day 21 July 2016

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.…