Rush’s Stack of Stuff

• GOP lawmakers fear hostage risk amid report US paid Iran $400 million while 4 detainees were released
• Iran says world powers must fulfill nuclear deal commitments
• Members of elite Nazi unit living freely in Britain, report says
• Ivanka Trump says she ‘clearly’ disagrees with Obama calling her father ‘unfit’ to be president
• Trump calls Obama ‘worst president’, ‘a disaster’ after ‘unfit to serve’ slam

• For Elon Musk, star-touched vision and messy reality collide
• The empowering reasons why female athletes are wearing makeup during the Olympics
• Hillary, Russia & the Consequences of Recklessness – Pete Hoekstra

• FBI Took Months to Tell the DNC About the Russians

• GOP Poisoned by Khan Swiftboating

• Obama Schedule
• Republican Leaders Mull Abandoning Trump “En Masse”

• The Khans Should Be America’s Wake-Up Call – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

• What Lawmakers Can Do to Protect Rights of Pro-Life Medical Professionals
• Conservatives Push Leadership to Deny Obama His Last Lame-Duck Session
• Democrat AGs, Green Groups Defy Subpoena on ‘Coordinated’ Climate Efforts
• This Insurer Used to Make Money on Obamacare Plans. Now It’s Losing Money
• The TSA Can Ruin Your Summer Vacation: Here’s How It Should Be Fixed

• Presidential Approval Index Tracking Poll
• Obama’s Overall Approval Dips Slightly in July
• Most Say Clinton Hiding Something in Deleted E-mails, Don’t Balk at Russia’s Help

• Beltway Confidential
• The White House is crippling our economy
• Trump’s right the system is rigged. Look at Common Core
• Trump’s magic number is 64

• Black Lives Matter: from a lie to a revolution
• Obama’s ransom payment
• Obama’s ransom payment (2)

• Convention Hangover
• IRS Colleagues Called Lois Lerner ‘Volatile’
• Report: Top GOP Officials ‘Actively Exploring’ How To Replace Trump If He Drops Out
• Only GOP Congressman Supporting Hillary Took Thousands From Planned Parenthood

• Page Six
• Andrew Cuomo just raised your electric bill
• Trump getting ‘nuttier and nuttier,’ campaign insiders say
• New York owes a huge debt of gratitude to Bill Bratton

• Congress Probes White House-Linked Campaign to Deceive Media on Iran Nuclear Deal
• NH May Have Destroyed Investigation Records of Hassan Friend Accused of Sexual Misconduct
• New Documents Reveal IRS Headquarters in D.C. Buried Conservative Groups’ Tax Applications
• NBC Scrubs Andrea Mitchell Calling Bill Clinton’s Rape Accuser ‘Discredited’
• Feingold Passes $500,000 in Bundled Lobbyist Contributions

• Inevitable: Turkey accuses US military of helping to plot coup
• Team Trump to surrogates: Operation Urgent Pivot has begun
• The election may wind up being rigged, but not the way you’re thinking

• The Note
• Senior GOP Officials Exploring Options if Trump Drops Out
• Emirates Plane Crash-Lands at Dubai Airport
• DC Metro Transit Cop Arrested for Allegedly Trying to Assist ISIS
• Republican CEO Meg Whitman Endorses Clinton

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

• How a Secretive Branch of ISIS Built a Global Network of Killers
• Trump Steps Up His Criticism of Khans and G.O.P. Leaders
• The Case for (Finally) Bombing Assad
• Republicans Should Abandon ‘Unfit’ Trump, Obama Says

• Trump supporters firmly behind him despite feud with Muslim family
• ISIS hit list targets 700 U.S. Army soldiers: ‘Kill the dogs’
• Planned Parenthood slams Donald Trump for treatment of crying baby
• Gary Johnson: We’ve raised more than $1 million in last two weeks

• A Bad Bounce: More Kids Getting Injured Using Trampolines

• Bratton wonders whether ‘tough guy’ Trump has ‘ever taken a punch in his life’ as he dismisses GOP nominee’s knowledge of law and order
• Trump campaign desperately trying to extinguish feud between GOP nominee and Khizr Khan, leaked email shows

• The Briefing Room
• Inside Ryan’s primary strategy
• Trump denies asking why nukes aren’t used
• Scarborough: Trump asked adviser why US can’t use nuclear weapons

• Anti-Trump Republicans caught in quandary
• Insiders game out Clinton’s Cabinet
• Few Republicans want to campaign with Trump
• Trump acolytes campaign to defeat Ryan

• Today’s Standard
• Here Comes Hillary

• Raves leave L.A. for the suburbs, but deaths and drug problems continue
• This terminally ill man says California’s aid-in-dying law means he can end his life ‘fully, thankfully and joyfully’
• Some California charter schools discriminate in admissions, ACLU report says

• Trump taunts GOP
• Divided America
• America in one word?”

• ‘Anyone but Republicans’
• Latest North Korea missile launch lands near Japan waters, alarms Tokyo
• Emirates jet catches fire after hard landing in Dubai, all safe
• Wall Street opens little changed
• Greater unity than ever: Donald Trump

• Post Politics Blog

• An oil boom made it the most expensive city in the world. Now it’s in crisis.
• For Trump, a new ‘rigged’ system: The election itself
• Republican Meg Whitman endorses Clinton, calls Trump ‘authoritarian’
• North Korean missile lands perilously close to Japan

• Americans’ Interest in Watching Olympics Tumbles to New Low
• U.S. Job Creation Remains at Post-Recession High in July

• Still Need Olympic Lodging? Rio Is World’s Priciest Airbnb City
• Trump Withholds Ryan, McCain Backing as Payback Roils GOP

• Calais Jungle Migrants Threaten Truck Driver with Chainsaw
• Wow! Watch State Dept. Spokesperson LIE About Sending Iran Ransom in Unmarked Plane
• #NeverTrump Kansas GOP Lawmaker Loses Primary to Pro-Trump Challenger
• ‘Body Man’ Reggie Love Sends Out Strange Email Requesting Birthday Wishes for Obama

• Political News & Commentary: Andrew Malcolm
• Disturbing Revelations About Hillary And Her ‘Russian Reset’ Pal Putin
• Clinton Ignored Obama’s Order To Get Security Training While Sec of State, Filing Shows

• Report: Senior Republican Officials ‘Clearly Think It’s a Possibility’ Trump Can Be Replaced
• Why Isn’t the Media All Over Trump’s Obvious Role in the Release of Melania’s Nudes?

• Meteorologist slams DNC ‘inaccurate’ climate video: ‘Same old lieRecycled footage from two years ago’

• Paul Ryan Throws in With Hillary
• Khan, Constitution and Sharia
• Refugees attack buses in Europe

• Trump Tells Virginia Town It’s Failing, Cites the Wrong Place
• All Right, GOP, It’s Time to Dump Donald Trump

• RCP Blog
• Real Clear Markets
• The Real Reckoning – Robert Reich
• It’s Time for Trump to Name His Foreign Policy Team – Robert O’Brien
• Obama: Trump “Unfit” For Presidency; Has To Be A Point Where GOP Says “Enough”

• Bernie Is a Mainstream Democrat

• Best of the Web (James Taranto)
• U.S. Sent Cash to Iran as Americans Were Freed – Solomon & Lee

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

• Why Hillary’s Candidacy Is More ‘Historic’ Now Than in 2008 – Jonah Goldberg
• Why There Is No Serious Third-Party Alternative This Year
• Conservatism’s Sad and Ugly Transformation into Trumpism
• Everything’s ‘Rigged’
• Not All U.S. Muslim Soldiers Are Equal
• Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi Debacle: Arming Jihadists in Libya . . . and Syria

• Trump Outdraws Hillary in Pennsylvania

• Will Smith: Trump Support is ‘Collective Insanity’
• Salon: Margaret Sanger Is ‘Our Lady of Birth Control,’ #WithHer
• Vox Writer: Conservatism Not ‘Viable’ Without Racist Voters
• NBC Ignores the Resignations of High Ranking DNC Officials Over Emails
• NBC Deceptively Edits Video of Andrea Mitchell Defending Clintons
• 85 minutes on Anti-Trump Khan Speech, 2 on Pat Smith

• Chairman Royce on Reports That Obama Secretly Sent $400M to Iran: ‘It Keeps Getting Worse’
• Record: 52% Disapprove of How SCOTUS Is Handling Its Job
• Benghazi Victim’s Father: Clinton Lied ‘to Myself And to Other Family Members’
• Judicial Watch: FBI Interviews Show Apparent IRS Policy of Burying Tea Party Applications in 2010-2012
• Obama: ‘We Are Part of a Global Economy. We’re Not Reversing That’

• ABC: RNC Considering Options If Trump Drops Out
• Scarborough to Gen. Hayden: Trump Asked ‘Why Can’t We Use’ Nukes?
• WSJ: Obama Sent $400M to Iran as It Freed Americans
• Group Led By Michael Bloomberg Launches Immigration Reform Campaign

• MRC’s Bozell Slams ‘Incredible’ Disparity in Coverage of Grieving Moms
• Bozell & Graham Column: When Trump’s Speeches Aren’t ‘News’
• MRC’s Bozell Slams ‘One-Sided’ Presidential Debate Moderators
• Condemning GOP, Cheering Dems: Media Coverage of 2016 Conventions

• ISIS, meet the C-Men
• Fury as women are BANNED from ‘men-only’ sessions at Luton’s taxpayer-funded Olympic swimming pool ‘for cultural reasons’ and segregated in smaller community baths

• Soldiers warned not to wear uniforms to work after military employee ‘escapes abduction bid’ outside Aldershot barracks a fortnight after RAF Marham attempted kidnap
• Child Genius victory overshadowed by Twitter fury at mother’s intervention

• Donald Trump will not endorse Paul Ryan as Republican splits widen
• The extraordinary Simone Biles, the best athlete in America today

• This will soon be America’s biggest economic problem