SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 9:31 P.M. ET: 

NEW FOX POLL – From Fox:   Among Republican primary voters, Trump captures 18 percent. He’s closely followed by Walker at 15 percent and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush at 14 percent. No one else reaches double-digits.  Support for Trump is up seven percentage points since last month and up 14 points since May. He’s also the candidate GOP primary voters say they are most interested in learning more about during the debates.  Walker’s up six points since he officially kicked off his campaign. That bump gets him back to the support he was receiving earlier this year. In March, he was also at 15 percent.  Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul gets eight percent, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio receives seven percent, former neurosurgeon Ben Carson comes in at six percent, and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee get four percent a piece.  We're still in the silly season.  Trump's all the craze, but he's still polling at only 18 percent.  Let's give it some months before we get serious about polling.  The next craze may not be Donald Trump, but Donald Duck.

YOU SHALL SLEEP – From Breitbart:   ADOR, Spain, July 16 (UPI) — A Spanish mayor has become the first in the country to issue a proclamation creating an official afternoon nap time for the entire city.  Mayor Joan Faus Vitoria of Ador in Valencia declared 2 to 5 p.m. as the official time for the city’s residents to take their afternoon siestas.  The edict asks residents to keep quiet during the siesta hours and the mayor recommended children be kept inside to prevent noise from traveling into open windows.  The mayor said the nap time was chosen due to the high afternoon heat making 2 to 5 p.m. the ideal time to take a break from working in fields.  Coming soon:  Official happy times.  Coming after that:  selling the country to a foreign nation to pay for revenues lost during the official nap times.

ANOTHER HORROR – From CBS:   CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- A gunman unleashed a barrage of gunfire at two military facilities Thursday in Tennessee, killing four Marines and wounding two other service members and a police officer, officials told CBS News.  The shooter also was killed. Law enforcement sources told CBS News that the shooting suspect was identified as 24-year-old Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez. According to a U.S. law enforcement source, Abdulazeez was born in Kuwait and came to the United States in 1996. It's unclear if and when he became an American citizen.  A U.S. official told CBS News that Abdulazeez was not on law enforcement radar concerning possible terror links or aspirations. The FBI was not aware of him as being any kind of threat.  Repeat after me:  This has nothing to do with anything taught in Islam today.   It's a coincidence, just another coincidence.

July 16,  2015