Obama’s Security Frisks Golfers, U.S. Might Send Ground Troops to Iraq, Study Says Your Opinion Doesn’t Matter: P.M. Links

President Obama needs to golf during his
vacation, and that means
other golfers must be frisked.
The U.S. is trying to figure out what to do about
all the refugees that this ISIS-Iraq debacle is creating and …
did someone say
ground troops?
“The preferences of the average American appear to have only a
minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon
public policy,” says a new, sad, and not particularly surprising

study.
Same-sex marriages could begin in Virginia as early as
next week.
The latest Israeli-Gaza ceasefire officially expires in

half an hour (5 p.m. ET). Also, an Associated Press reporter

was killed by a previously undetonated ordinance from an
Israeli airstrike.
Two German artists took responsibility for the
white flags on the Brooklyn Bridge. Five bucks says Merkel had
them do it as payback for all that espionage.
Brazil’s socialist
presidential candidate was killed in a plane crash. That’s
a downer.