Rush’s Stack of Stuff

• Trump campaign calls Kasich convention absence ’embarrassing’
• Dissident delegates seek last-minute showdown to block Trump from GOP nomination
• Trump ready to define the true ‘change’ needed in convention speech, Manafort says
• Baton Rouge horror: When the breaking news is more police officers murdered
• Trump family, a few celebs and former rivals round out GOP convention speaker list

• Trump Nation: Supporters see themselves in Republican nominee
• GOP convention is already a failure: Jonah Goldberg

• Slain Baton Rouge Officer Called for End of Hatred Days Before Death

• Hillary Embraces Liberal Extremism

• Obama Schedule
• Obama Statement on Baton Rouge Police Killings

• Donald Trump Aims to Soften Image at Convention

• After Nice, France Grapples With How to Combat Terrorism
• The Attempted Coup Reveals Turkey’s Instability. That’s Bad News for the US.
• House Conservatives Explain Latest IRS Chief Impeachment Push: ‘Leadership Has Been Too Timid to Go After Corruption’
• These Are the Tools We Need to Win the Long War Against Islamist Terrorism
• ‘No American Should Be Forced to Participate in Abortion,’ Says Pastor Following Pro-Life Vote

• Presidential Approval Index Tracking Poll
• What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls
• Voters React To Pence As Trump’s Running Mate

• Beltway Confidential
• Law & Order Becomes Major Theme of Republican Convention – Byron York

• Police militarization after Baton Rouge
• Three easy ways Obama could stop doing harm

• In One Week Obama Proves His Critics Were Right The Whole Time
• The Turkey Prime Minister’s Thinly-Veiled Threat To Obama
• Republican Senator: The GOP Must Purge Trump Supporters
• If Hillary Picks One Of These People For VP, Oh Man, Get Ready For Unrest

• Page Six
• Mike Pence Is the Perfect Complement to Donald Trump
• Bastille Day attacker was bisexual, had fling with elderly male retiree
• Scott Baio gets last minute prime-time role at Trump’s RNC

• Feds Regulating Wine Refrigerators. Energy efficiency reg to cost small businesses $12,500 each
• Obama Calls Baton Rouge Assault an Attack on U.S., Rule of Law
• Dozens of Lives Claimed by Latest Terror Attack on West
• Trump Rips ‘Dishonest’ and ‘Crooked’ Press for Reporting Hesitation about Pence
• The Fractured Republicans. Inside the GOP dissension in Cleveland

• Semi-retired president decides the time is right to revisit the public option for Obamacare
• No, the GOP platform isn’t calling to eliminate all national parks

• Baltimore Awaits Verdict For Highest Ranking Officer in Freddie Gray Case
• France: No Signs Truck Attacker Linked to Extremist Network
• GOP Convention Kicks off as Nation Reels From More Violence
• In First Joint Interview, Mike Pence Aims to Be Trump-Interpreter

“I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.” -Rush Limbaugh

• Nation on Edge After Attack Kills Officers in Baton Rouge
• GOP Gathers, Focused on Law and Order
• Turkey’s Fate Is Uncertain After Attempted Coup
• Who Is a Terrorist, and Who Is Simply Deranged?

• Law enforcement again in mourning as gunman kills 3 officers in Baton Rouge
• Trump’s immigration rhetoric, white supremacist stumbles help foes play race card
• Mike Pence bucked Republican establishment on rise to conservative stardom
• John Kerry blames Congress for not doing more to help Obama fight ISIS

• Juno Spacecraft Captures 1st Photo from Jupiter Orbit

• Thousands of Cleveland cops and FBI officials prep for RNC as a slew of protesters plan to demonstrate
• In awkward first interview together, Pence and Trump disagree on campaign tactics

• Curtain goes up on Trump show
• Black minister gets prime-time speaking spot at convention
• Baton Rouge shooter ID’ed in ‘unjustifiable’ attack on police

• Ted talks: He’s not ready to endorse yet
• GOP insiders dreading Trump’s convention
• Trump panic drives progressives toward Clinton
• Republican National Convention 2016 schedule of speakers
• How Trump’s adversaries lost it all in Cleveland
• Obama focuses on supporting police

• Today’s Standard
• Report: Coburn Willing to Accept GOP Nomination

• For Donald Trump to become president, the difficult road begins at the Republican convention
• Marine Corps veteran identified as gunman in fatal shooting of three police officers in Baton Rouge
• It’s not just Dallas or Baton Rouge police officers have been killed across the country

• Baton Rouge police killer: A former Marine from Kansas City
• GOP convention kicks off as nation reels from more violence
• To some, Trump is a desperate survival bid
• Voters split over how to secure US from illegal immigration

• From decorated Iraq veteran to cop killer
• Turkey widens purges to police after coup bid, Europe warns on rule of law
• On convention eve, Trump team confident of smooth path to nomination
• Trump blames Baton Rouge shooting on ‘lack of leadership’

• Post Politics Blog

• Lone gunman killed, 3 others wounded in Baton Rouge
• Turkish purges spread to police forces in the wake of quashed coup
• The Supreme Court and politics are more entangled than either side admits

• How Republicans surrender to Trump on foreign policy

• Baton Rouge shooting suspect encouraged black Americans to ‘fight back’ before they went ‘extinct’

• U.S. Satisfaction Higher Among Blacks, Hispanics Than Whites
• Voters Have Muted Reaction to Pence, Hardly Know Him

• It’s Not a Housing Bubble, It’s Just Expensive
• My Venezuela Nightmare: A 30-Day Hunt for Food in a Starving Land

• Police Car Firebombed Outside Daytona Islamic Center: Note Left At Scene Says “F- The Police Black Lives Matter”
• Obama Tells Police to Admit Errors Compares #BlackLivesMatter to Abolition Movement
• Flashback: Nation of Islam Leader Farrakhan Says, “Rise Up and Kill Those Who Kill Us!”
• Brit Hume on Obama’s Response to Baton Rouge: He Realizes Now That He’s Vulnerable on This Issue

• Political News & Commentary: Andrew Malcolm
• Once Again, Obama Tries To Deflect Blame For Police Shootings
• The Democrats Want To ‘Invest’ Big In Big Government

• CNN Contributor: ‘We Don’t Have a Vicious Cycle of Black Men Shooting at Police’
• ‘Are You Gonna Let Me Talk?’: CNN Interview on ‘Phony Movement’ Black Lives Matter Derails
• Slain Baton Rouge Officer’s Heartfelt Facebook Post After Alton Sterling Shooting

• Cheers! AP laments: ‘Trump would be only head of state in world to contend climate change is a hoax’

• Desperation: Jon Stewart to Join Stephen Colbert for ‘Late Show’ RNC Ratings Stunt
• Viggo Mortensen Goes ‘Never Hillary’: ‘If You Want a Woman,’ Vote Jill Stein
• Dinesh D’Souza’s ‘Hillary’s America’ Off to Strong Start at Box Office
• Gang Members, Police Attend Rapper’s Anti-Violence Summit

• Baton Rouge Cop-Killer Had a Crazed Online Double Life
• Turkish Cleric Says Erdogan Staged Coup

• RCP Blog
• Real Clear Markets
• Party Pushes for Unity at Republican Convention
• President Obama: “It Is Up To All Of Us To Make Sure We Are Part Of The Solution, Not Part Of The Problem”
• Sheriff David Clarke: “Black Lives Matter” Are Purveyors Of A “Hateful, Violent Ideology”
• Baton Rouge Cop-Killer’s YouTube Account: “I Was A Nation Of Islam Member. Don’t Affiliate Me With Anything.”

• Obama, Clinton and Race Exploitation

• Best of the Web (James Taranto)
• Merrick Garland Deserves Vote–for Democracy’s Sake – President Barack Obama

• Blogs: The Corner | Media Blog | Frum’s Diary | Mark Levin | Sixers

• Upset about the Iraq War? Blame Iraqis
• How Erdogan Is Rolling the Dice, and How/Why America Must Check Him
• How Trump Folk Talk
• I Told You So
• Democracy Is Surviving Citizens United Just Fine
• Three Modest Propositions

• Living in American Freedom
• The Lessons We Refuse to Learn

• NYT Scolds Media to Avoid ‘False Equivalence’ In GOP Convention News
• Tom Brokaw Bemoans ‘Fear’ and ‘Hostility’ the Press Helped Create
• RNC Hispanic Media Boss Shuts Down Jorge Ramos Over Race Question
• NBC Frets GOP Convention Will Be Filled With ‘Inflammatory Rhetoric’

• Obama: ‘Everyone Right Now Focus on Words and Actions That Can Unite This Country’
• Ex-CIA Director Woolsey: ‘The Administration Cannot Keep Its Mouth Shut’ on War Effort
• Slain Baton Rouge Officer: ‘In Uniform I Get Nasty Hateful Looks and Out of Uniform Some Consider Me a Threat’
• CBO: ‘The Projected Amounts of Debt WouldMake a Fiscal Crisis More Likely’
• Don’t Make Claims of US Involvement in Coup Plot, Kerry Warns Turks
• Hillary Clinton: Climate Change ‘Is an Opportunity as Well as a Problem’
• Kerry: Congress Has Shown ‘Absolutely Zero Willingness’ to Support Ground Troops in Syria

• Police Have ‘Targets on Their Backs’
• Pence to ’60 Minutes’: Styles Different, Our Vision Exactly Same
• Two More Held in Nice Terror Attack as Signs of Conspiracy Emerge
• Pete King on Turkey: No One Saw This Coup Coming

• Pres. Hollande: All of France ‘Threatened by ISLAMIST TERRORISM’
• New Black Panther Party Wants Segregation
• Americans Sound Off On Black Lives Matter
• CDC: First Female-to-Male Sexual Transmission of Zika Virus Reported in NYC

• Hillary trolls Trump with fake ‘first draft of speakers’
• Northern Territory only wants refugees of the ‘right background’ – and not Islamic asylum seekers who could be ‘radicalised’

• World leaders warn President Erdogan not to use uprising as excuse for crackdown as more than 6,000 arrested
• Nice terror attack: ‘soldier of Islam’ Bouhlel ‘took drugs and used dating sites to pick up men and women’

• Trump and Pence’s first joint interview puts uneasy union on display
• Baton Rouge shootings: suspect Gavin Long was marine with online alias