Rush’s Stack of Stuff

• Fox News Poll: Voters trust Trump on economy, Clinton on nukes
• Clinton’s Court: Legal analysts say gun rights and more at stake in November
• Media trumpeting Trump implosion, but is it real?
• Obama admin hid details of multi-million dollar cash payout to Iran from Congress
• Beware the Ides of August: DC churns amid Trump surprises

• U.S. women’s soccer team blanks New Zealand in Olympic opener
• How USA Gymnastics protected coaches over kids

• Hedge Funds Lose Again

• Trump’s Stimulus Looks Like Obama’s
• Obama’s Cash for Hostages Iran Deal

• Obama Schedule
• White House Says Ransom Story is Right Wing Politics

• Clinton Raised $90 Million in July; Trump Raised $80 Million

• Republicans Consider Next Steps After News of Obama Administration Cash Transfer to Iran
• Senate Liberals, Targeting Climate Change ‘Deniers,’ Demand to Know Donors to 22 Think Tanks
• Obama’s Influence Could Continue After His Term Through His Political Appointees
• Russia’s Moves, Terrorism Fuel Talk of War in Europe
• New Massachusetts Law Banning Employers From Asking Salary History Could Hurt Employees

• Presidential Approval Index Tracking Poll
• Most Say Clinton Hiding Something in Deleted E-mails, Don’t Balk at Russia’s Help
• White House Watch: Clinton 44%, Trump 40%, Johnson, 6%, Stein 3%

• Beltway Confidential
• Donald Trump’s Opportunity Cost – Michael Barone

• Obama’s ransom payment (4)

• Bill Clinton Got Millions From World’s Biggest Sharia Law Education Firm
• Electoral College Elector Won’t Vote For Trump, No Matter What The Voters Say
• Democratic Congresswoman On Verge Of Being EVICTED For Not Paying Rent
• Black Woman Launches ‘Reparations’ Website For White People To Give Black People Their Money

• Page Six
• When Obama Does It, It’s Not Ransom, Just Coincidence

• Obama Admin Hid Details of Multi-Million Dollar Cash Payout to Iran From Congress
• North Carolina Democrat Deborah Ross Has an American Flag Problem
• Clinton Again Claims FBI Called Her Email Statements Truthful
• Trump: Clinton’s ‘Far Left’ SCOTUS Picks Would Make U.S. Like Venezuela
• NBC Adds ‘Editor’s Note’ to Stealth-Edited Andrea Mitchell Report
• Earnest: It’s Possible $400 Million Iran Received Could Fund Terrorism
• EPA Cannot Prove That Its $16 Million Education Program Had Any Positive Results

• Manafort: We like Paul Ryan and Nehlen’s not going to win, so what’s the beef?
• Why is Bill de Blasio fighting so hard against Uber in NYC?
• SCOTUS barely dips a toe into the school transgender bathroom debate

• The Note
• GOP Frustrations With Trump Mount as Allies Weigh Options
• GOP Congressman Unlikely to Vote for Trump
• ‘Conflict’ in Trump Campaign Over Ryan Endorsement
• Olympic Beach Water Includes High Levels of Bacteria

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

• Trump Edges Close to Clinton With Flood of Donations
• Unfiltered Voices From Trump Rallies
• Kansas Voters Send Message by Ousting Tea Party Firebrand
• Investors Drawn to Volatile Markets as Rewards Beat Risks

• Hillary Clinton takes 10-point lead over Donald Trump: Fox poll
• TSA: ‘Artfully concealed’ weapons on the rise in airports, create fears about threats to airliners
• Trump on $400 million U.S. paid Iran: ‘We have been humiliated’
• Obama commutes sentences of 214 convicts, including 67 in prison for life

• First Reprogrammable Quantum Computer Created

• White House press secretary insists $400M to Iran was not ‘ransom payment’
• Trump campaign in turmoil as aides stop challenging the mogul and top Republicans begin exploring ways to replace him on ballot

• The Briefing Room
• Trump has hurt himself with the military, family members say
• Pennsylvania poll: Clinton has double-digit lead over Trump
• Vulnerable GOP rep promises to ‘stand up’ to President Trump

• Trump’s shrinking electoral map
• Trump getting trounced in 3 battleground states
• Trump’s Los Angeles Money Man
• Trump’s nuclear nightmare
• Donald Trump’s man on Israel
• Gaps in Melania Trump’s immigration story raise questions

• Today’s Standard
• A Conversation With Bill Kristol: Could Trump Win?

• Trump’s latest flare-up stirs an already sizzling Northern California congressional race
• ‘A sense of panic is rising’ among Republicans over Trump
• Supreme Court grants emergency order to block transgender male student in Virginia from using boys’ restroom

• GOP frustrations with Trump mount as allies weigh options
• America seen from abroad: arrogant, nice, tech-savvy, free
• Pence tries to win over conservatives despite Trump gaffes
• American woman killed, 5 hurt in London knife attack

• Wealthy Republicans campaign for Clinton
• US jobless claims rise marginally; layoffs increase in July
• US Supreme Court blocks transgender bathroom choice for now
• Fury at top of Republican Party over Trump snub of House speaker

• Post Politics Blog


• How a secret group was able to buy ingredients for a dirty bomb in US
• GOP reaches ‘new level of panic’ over Trump candidacy
• Why some whites are waking up to racism
• The problem with generals backing candidates at conventions

• Trump campaign turmoil extends to Republican party
• Supreme court blocks order to let transgender student use boys’ bathroom

• Corporate Boards: Failing at Growth
• Beer Reigns as Americans’ Preferred Alcoholic Beverage

• Black Lives Matter Leader Says Even Great People Can Be Part of the Problem
• Republicans Stuck With Trump Despite Fears He’ll Destroy Them

• Watch Hillary Lie About $400 Million Ransom Paid to Iranian Regime in Euros, Francs
• Mohammad the Islamist Attacks Priest in Spain: “Son of a B*tch, I’m Going to Kill You!”
• French Politician Marine Le Pen Endorses Trump: He Is “Less Harmful” than Hillary
• Former Muslim: Mr. Khizr Khan, Here is My Copy of the Koran, Would You Like to Borrow It?
• Only Memorable Moment from DNC Convention Was ALL A LIE! Khizr Khan Believes Sharia Trumps Constitution

• Political News & Commentary: Andrew Malcolm
• Paying Ransom To Iran Endangers Americans Everywhere
• Trump Just Promised To Double Down On Obama’s Failed Stimulus

• Report: DOJ Officials Warned Obama Admin that $400 Million Iran Transfer Looked Like ‘Ransom’
• ‘Oh Good God’: Megyn Kelly Flips Out Over Trump Relitigating So Many Controversies

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

• How Google/YouTube Is Slowly Killing the Music Industry
• Clint Eastwood: Donald Trump Challenging ‘Kiss-Ass Generation’
• Antonio Sabato Jr: Hollywood Blacklisting My Peers Just for Attending RNC
• Barbra Streisand Celebrates Hillary Victory on First Night of Tour
• Comedian Bill Burr Mocks Hillary’s Celebrity Endorsements: ‘Stupidest Thing Ever’

• Obama Gets Approval-Rating Bump From DNC
• Trump Keeps Failing and It Doesn’t Matter

• RCP Blog
• Real Clear Markets
• Clinton’s Post-Convention Bounce: Will It Stay or Go? – Sean Trende
• Sorry, GOP: There Is No Trump ‘Reset’ Button – Heather Wilhelm
• GOP Congressman Refuses To Support Trump: “I’m American Before Republican”
• Tense: WH’s Earnest Refuses To Give Details About Cash Payment To Iran; “Why Is That Relevant?”

• Bernie Is a Mainstream Democrat

• Best of the Web (James Taranto)
• Why This Recovery Is So Lousy – Phil Gramm & Michael Solon

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

• The Clintons: America’s Luckiest Political Family – Charles Cooke
• Donald Trump, Postmodern Candidate
• The Supreme Court Is Not a Sufficient Reason to Vote for Trump
• Obama Is Right about Trump
• The Conservative Media Echo Chamber Is Making the Right Intellectually Deaf
• Maintaining Alliances Puts ‘America First’

• The Debate Over the Debates; Donald Trump will need to outplay the NFL.
• Keeping His Own Counsel

• CBS Fesses Up: Trump Gives Every Excuse to Not Cover Hillary
• Networks Gave Trump Controversies Over 2X the Coverage of Iran Payment
• NYT Critic Compares Slavery to Current Police Controversies
• Obeidallah Goes Berserk As CNN Guest Recalls Khan Ties to Clintons
• NBC Hypes GOP ‘Civil War,’ Continues to Ignore Major Firings at DNC

• Supreme Court: School Can Keep Biological Female Out of Male Restrooms�For Now
• Obama Issues Largest Single-Day Batch of Prisoner Commutations in More Than a Century
• CDC: 150 Percent Increase in Hepatitis C Virus Cases in U.S. � 3.5 Million Infected
• $15 Minimum Wage: Short-Term Political Gain, Long-Term Economic Pain
• Rep. Ed Royce Promises Hearings on $400M, Dead-of-Night Cash Payment to Iran
• Sen. Cotton: Flying Untraceable ‘Cold, Hard Cash’ in an Unmarked Plane to Iran ‘Like a Drug Cartel Transaction’

• Manafort: Of Course Trump Will Support Ryan
• Poll: Trump Leads Clinton By 4 Points in North Carolina
• American Woman Killed in London Stabbing Spree
• Immigration Experts: Trump’s Muslim Ban ‘Impossible’

• Trump: ‘We’ve Been Humiliated’ by Obama’s Secret Payment to Iran
• Two Phoenix Black Lives Matter Protests Cost Taxpayers $250K
• Obama’s Commuting Sentences of 214 More Federal Inmates
• Cruz: Obama’s Secret Hostage Ransom Proves Iran Deal ‘Nothing But a Series of Bribes, Secret Agreements’

• Woman killed and five people injured in a ‘terrorist knife attack in central London’
• Trump claims to have seen ‘top secret’ film of Iran offloading $400million in US cash

• Clint Eastwood makes Donald Trump’s day, praising him for ‘saying what’s on his mind’
• Republican Party reaches ‘new level of panic’ over Donald Trump as senior figures ‘plot intervention’

• Trump campaign chairman responds to sharp dip in the polls: ‘We feel comfortable’