{"id":27888,"date":"2016-07-15T08:33:09","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T13:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=27888"},"modified":"2018-10-29T10:45:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T15:45:36","slug":"linkswarm-for-july-15-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=27888","title":{"rendered":"LinkSwarm for July 15, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Enjoy a Friday LinkSwarm, including some recent big stories:<\/p>\n

  • Truck plows into Bastille Day celebration in Nice, France, killing at least 84<\/a>, including a father and his 10 year old son from Lakeway<\/a>.\n
  • The murderer is evidently a Muslim from Tunisia<\/a>. And his name is evidently Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel<\/a>. Try to contain your shock.\n
  • The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague rules against China in the South China Seas dispute<\/a>. Whether China heeds the ruling is another question…\n
  • Another day, another Democratic congresscritter indicted<\/a>. \u201cCorrine Brown, the House rep from the 5th District of Florida, was indicted (along with Ronnie Simmons, her chief of staff) on federal charges of mail and wire fraud.\u201d\n
  • Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are neck and neck in swing states<\/a>.\n
  • “The U.S. State Department funneled tax dollars to a group that worked to oust Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>, according to a Senate report released Tuesday.”\n
  • Another ObamaCare exchange shuts down<\/a>, this time in Illinois.\n
  • And six of the seven remaining exchanges are in trouble<\/a>.\n
  • Philadelphia airport workers to go on strike during the Democratic National Convention<\/a>.\n
  • Houston City Councilman calls for segregation<\/a> in police shifts. Next up: Their own drinking fountains\u2026 (Hat tip: Director Blue<\/a>.)\n
  • Previously deported illegal alien sentenced to life in prison for murder<\/a> in Laredo.\n
  • Following in the footsteps of Annise Parker, Austin City Council wants to silence opponents who speak out on politics<\/a>.\n
  • The left’s war on police<\/a>. (Hat tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit<\/a>.)\n
  • El Paso police chief Greg Allen calls Black Lives Matter \u201ca radical hate group<\/a>.”\n
  • University of Texas to return athletic ticket sales to a group previously proven to be corrupt<\/a>.\n
  • Ghostbusters<\/b> reboot toys already on clearance<\/a> before the movie’s opening.\n
  • Strippers, arson and a potato<\/a>. (Hat tip: Dwight<\/a>.)\n
  • Understatement of the Year Award:
    \n

    An inspection of the truck\u2019s cargo revealed 169 bundles of marijuana with an estimated weight of 3,996 lbs. were on board.<\/p>\n

    The estimated street value of the marijuana is between $1.6 million and $1.9 million. Perez was charged with Trafficking Marijuana in the Superior Court of DeKalb County, Georgia.<\/p>\n

    Doraville Police say they are \u201cpretty confident this would exceed personal use.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    (Hat tip: Ace of Spades HQ<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Enjoy a Friday LinkSwarm, including some recent big stories: Truck plows into Bastille Day celebration in Nice, France, killing at least 84, including a father and his 10 year old son from Lakeway. The murderer is evidently a Muslim from Tunisia. And his name is evidently Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel. Try to contain your shock. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":23,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,351,102,17,13,49,31,1335,24,2463,12,319],"tags":[2889,1980,2091,2859,1983,354,39,3371,2872,1741,2864,208,2870,987,444,72,2638,2867,885,3369,484,3372,2880,2866,3370,2636,488,2881,3101,1674,2861,2877,527],"class_list":["post-27888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austin","category-border-control","category-crime","category-democrats","category-elections","category-foreign-policy","category-jihad","category-obama-scandals","category-obamacare","category-social-justice-warriors","category-texas","category-unions","tag-blacklivesmatter","tag-2016-election","tag-2016-presidential-race","tag-austin","tag-bastille-day","tag-border-controls","tag-china","tag-corrine-brown","tag-crime","tag-democratic-national-convention","tag-democrats","tag-el-paso","tag-foreign-policy","tag-france","tag-houston","tag-israel","tag-israeli-elections","tag-jihad","tag-lakeway","tag-laredo","tag-linkswarm","tag-nice-france","tag-obama-scandals","tag-obamacare","tag-permanent-court-of-arbitration","tag-philippines","tag-police","tag-social-justice-warriors","tag-south-china-sea","tag-terrorism","tag-texas","tag-unions","tag-university-of-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27888"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37742,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27888\/revisions\/37742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}