Permawar: For the second day Turkish warplanes have hit Islamic State targets inside Syria as well as Kurdish PKK militants inside northern Iraq. Striking the Kurds complicates matters because they’ve been working with the coalition fighting the Islamic State, but Turkey feels threatened by them. Turkey was reluctant to get involved but acted after a suicide bomber killed 32 people in the Turkish town of Suruc.

Official Travel: President Obama is in his father’s homeland of Kenya today, welcomed like a returning hero. It’s like President Kennedy going to Ireland. Obama had dinner with three-dozen Kenyan relatives in Nairobi last night.

Speaking at a summit meeting the president noted economic strides on the continent saying “Africa is on the move,” and “Kenya is leading the way,” but he did not mention the horrible attacks Kenya has suffered at the hands of the al Shabab Muslim extremists.

Homeland Defense: The Pentagon has asked armed civilians to stop standing guard outside military offices. Self-appointed security patrols began standing a post outside recruitment centers after the Chattanooga killings because military personnel are not allowed to carry guns. The Pentagon said they’d rather rely on the local police, thank you.

Theater Shooting: The Louisiana theater shooter has been identified as a 59-year-old man with a history of mental illness and extreme right wing opinions who railed online against the government. John R. Houser, who was described as an unemployed drifter, shot himself when he saw police approaching the theater. Despite his state’s high rate of gun crimes, Gov. Bobby Jindal said “This just shows these senseless acts of violence can literally happen anywhere.”

The shooting comes in a week when President Obama told the BBC that one of his biggest frustrations as president has been “the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense gun-safety laws. Even in the face of repeated mass killings.” Hauser bought his handgun legally in an Alabama pawnshop.

Nation: Fiat Chrysler is recalling 1.4 million Jeep Cherokees after two professional hackers demonstrated that it’s possible to take remote control of some Jeeps through their Internet-connected entertainment systems. Security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek hacked a 2014 Jeep Cherokee and showed that they could turn the steering wheel, disable the brakes, and turn off engine.

It’s a worrisome development as an increasing number of technologies are connected to the Internet — everything from security doors to home heating systems and heart defibrillators. It’s called “The Internet of Things,” seen by some hackers as “The Internet of Targets.”

>The Administration announced yesterday that it would have no objection to the parole of Jonathan Pollard, an American who has served nearly 30 years after being convicted of spying for Israel. The 60-year-old Pollard is a former Naval intelligence employee who passed secret documents to Israel. He’s up for parole in November. Pollard’s conviction has always been a sore point with Israel. The Administration denies that paroling Pollard would be an appeasement to Israel, which is unhappy about the Iran nuclear agreement.

Corrected: The NY Times had to back off a story reporting that two inspectors general referred Hillary Clinton for a criminal prosecution because she had secret government information over her private email server. Not so fast. What they said was that they found classified information on Clinton’s server and they aren’t sure whether she sent it, received it, or even knew whether it was classified. Both the Times and its sources have withdrawn the word “criminal.”

Politically Corrected: ESPN fired its radio host Colin Cowherd after he insulted players from the Dominican Republic, suggesting they aren’t so smart. World Wrestling severed its ties with icon Hulk Hogan for spewing a racist rant during what’s described as an unauthorized sex tape. They didn’t seem to object to him appearing in a sex tape.

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