Rush’s Stack of Stuff

• Clinton doubles down on disputed claim FBI found her email remarks ‘truthful’
• Ryan says Trump has had ‘a pretty strange run’ since convention
• Carter calls ISIS a ‘cancer,’ says coalition allies need to do more
• Vicious Cycle: Press pounds Trump, then pounces on poor polls
• Fox News Poll: Clinton and Trump disliked by voters

• Global warming could ‘unfreeze’ waste buried in old Greenland military base
• Secret’s out: Team USA’s cruise ship discovered

• Don Lemon Accidentally Says “Bullshit” On-Air, Again

• The Trumplosion Begins

• Obama Schedule
• Obama to Stage All-Night Birthday Bash Friday

• President Obama Says Donald Trump’s Claim That Election Will Be Rigged Is ‘Ridiculous’

• These Tax Code Changes Could Save Average American Families Around $4,000 a Year
• What the Supreme Court’s Ruling Means for Transgender Bathrooms in Schools
• Soaring Business Taxes Hurt America’s Ability to Compete
• A Year After His Death, What I Wish I Could Tell the Ukrainian Soldier I Befriended

• Presidential Approval Index Tracking Poll
• White House Watch: Clinton 44%, Trump 40%, Johnson, 6%, Stein 3%
• If Trump’s ‘Unfit to Serve,’ What About Clinton?

• Beltway Confidential
• Fretting and Fraud on Voter ID

• Obama’s ransom payment (6)

• Justice Dept. Had ‘Powerful Case’ For IRS Targeting Charges
• Buying Justice: Appearance Of Impropriety In High Court
• Iran Claimed The US Paid Ransom For Hostages, Arrests Two More Americans
• Dem Congressman Wants Anyone But Straight White Men To Apply For Internships

• Page Six
• Everything you need to know about sex at the Olympics
• The Soho club where rich, bald dudes pick up gorgeous models
• If it wasn’t a ransom payment, why did Obama keep it secret? – Jonah Goldberg

• Report: Connecticut’s Paid Sick Leave Policy Costs Young Workers
• 7 Books Every Conservative Should Read
• 94,333,000 Americans Not in the Labor Force as Participation Rate Picks Up in July
• Animal Rights Protesters Interrupt Hillary Clinton at Rally
• Soros, Steyer, and Democracy Alliance Work to Retake Colorado
• Gold Star Mom Recalls Obama Using Son’s Casket as Photo Op

• Tapper: Oops, Hillary did it again!
• Politico: 70% of GOP insiders want to play Fantasy Politics
• July jobs report: 255,000 jobs added, jobless rate steady at 4.9%

• The Note
• Trump Never Saw ‘Top Secret’ Iran Video: Campaign
• Obama Regroups Forces in Campaign to Battle ISIS
• Ousted From DNC, Wasserman Schultz Fighting to Stay in House
• US Poised to Hit Obama’s Target of 10,000 Syrian Refugees

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

• Surge in Jobs in July Signals New Economic Momentum
• In Trump’s Lack of Economic Specifics, Some See a Way In
• Check on President’s Nuclear Power? There Is None
• Making Sense of #PalletsOfCash

• Trump support crumbles in Rust Belt swing states
• Mike Pence: ‘Whole world’ knows $400M to Iran was ‘ransom payment’
• RNC members prepare counterattack against Republicans sniping at Donald Trump
• Harvard Republican Club declines to endorse Republican nominee for ‘first time in 128 years’

• 10 ‘Barbaric’ Medical Treatments That Are Still Used Today

• NYC Melania Trump support group reluctantly backs Donald Trump
• Boxing great Roberto Durn wants to fight Donald Trump to see ‘how many Latinos he’s going to deport’

• The Briefing Room
• Senate GOP on edge over Trump’s falling polls
• Dem tensions explode in Hispanic Caucus over Trump
• Trump announces all-male economic team

• Clinton’s third-party headache
• Insiders to Trump: Drop out
• How to Hack an Election in 7 Minutes
• Poll: Clinton leads Trump in Georgia
• Former CIA chief: Putin recruited Trump as an ‘unwitting agent’ of Russia
• Trump campaign doubles down on rigging claims

• Today’s Standard
• Kristol: Trump Isn’t Off Message, ‘This Is The Message’

• White House and Clinton face questions about $400-million payment to Iran
• Trump narrows fundraising gap with Clinton after asking voters to send him money
• With climate legislation stalling, Jerry Brown looks to potential fight at the ballot box

• Poll: Most young Americans say parties don’t represent them
• Rio Olympics opening ceremony highlights Brazil, environment
• Obama denies $400M payment to Iran was ransom
• Ousted from DNC, Wasserman Schultz fighting to stay in House

• Putting the Trump fires out
• Strong US employment report brightens economic outlook
• Trump eyes economy as he seeks to shift course after turbulent week
• In slap at Trump, some wealthy Republicans campaign for Clinton
• Amid campaign turmoil, Trump allies urge him to get back on track

• Post Politics Blog

• Clinton broadens campaign effort to target wary Republicans
• Ex-CIA chief calls Trump an ‘unwitting agent’ of Putin
• Why facts don’t matter to Trump’s supporters
• Trump backs away from claims he saw footage of Iranian money transfer

• Trump admits he was wrong, says he didn’t really see a video of the cash transfer to Iran

• Third-Party Candidates Johnson, Stein Largely Unknown
• Corporate Boards: Failing at Growth

• Yay, Jobs! So Why Isn’t the Economy Following?
• July Jobs Report Shows the Recovery Broadening Out to Those Left Behind

• Activist and Sanders Supporter Who Served Papers to DNC on Fraud Case Found Dead
• Latest Election Analysis: The Election Is Already Over and Trump Will Win in a Landslide
• Khizr Khan: Allah Is Causing Trump to Make Stupid Mistakes
• Black Guns Matter Leader on How Democrats Are Trying to Disarm Black Communities

• Obamacare Is Failing Exactly the Way Critics Said It Would
• Clinton Scandal: Bill Took Millions From Group That Pushes Sharia Law
• How Hillary’s Big Ideas Will Bankrupt The Nation

• Actor Graham Beckel Appears Live on CNN to Absolutely Slam ‘the Post-Colonial Victim Shit’
• Poll: 70% of GOP Insiders Want Trump to Drop Out

• Cheers! Trump May Be Boosting ‘Climate Change Doubt’ Poll: GOP Voters Climate Skepticism Doubles in Past Year

• Bob Dylan’s Son Teams with Univision for ‘Undocumented’ Immigration Video
• Salma Hayek Offers to Lend Trump Copy of ‘US History for Dummies’
• Report: Beyonc, Jay-Z on Star-Studded Guest List for Obama Birthday Bash
• Clint Eastwood: Khizr Khan Being ‘Exploited’ by Democrats
• Eastwood Just Reminded Us Why He Is The World’s Coolest Star

• Trump Admits Lying About ‘Secret’ Iran Video
• US Adds 255K Jobs in July

• RCP Blog
• Real Clear Markets
• President Obama Says Trump Not to Be Trusted – Alexis Simendinger
• Obama: WSJ “Manufacturing Outrage” About Iran; Cash Payment Story Only Sounds Like A Crime Novel
• Trump: I Think I Am The Best Person To Make The Ultimate Deal — World Peace

• Censorial DePaul Bans Conservative Ben Shapiro

• Best of the Web (James Taranto)
• The Week They Decided He Was Crazy – Peggy Noonan
• The $400 Million: Legal But Not Right – Michael Mukasey

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

• How Hillary Clinton Lied to Parents of Benghazi Dead – Deroy Murdock
• Trump’s Infantile Hunger for Approval and Praise – Charles Krauthammer

• Obama Offers Rules for Republicans
• Iransom. How sad a spectacle to see Americans defending that shameful $400 million tribute to Iran
• Trump’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week.
• Shut It Down: The Clinton Foundation Is Too Corrupt to Exist

• Beinart: ‘It’s Not Ransom If You Are Giving People Their Own Money’
• Matthews Compares 2016 to 1964, Befuddled at the Word ‘Intervention’
• CNN Runs To The Defense of Obama White House’s $400 Million to Iran
• CNN’s Berman Asks Lindsey Graham If Trump ‘Has a Screw Loose’

• Obama Credits Muslim-American Patriotism With Suppressing Terrorist Networks Here
• 94,333,000 Not In Labor Force; Labor Force Participation 62.8%
• $161,025,400,000 Merchandise Trade Deficit With China in First Half of 2016
• Jobs Added in July: +38,000 in Government; +9,000 in Manufacturing
• Carter Anticipates ‘Additional Authorities and Additional Capabilities’ Will Be Required to Defeat ISIS
• Conservatives React to SCOTUS Stay of School Bathroom Order: ‘Gender Anarchy’

• New Polls Signal Deep Trouble for Trump
• Trump Admits Mistake: I Didn’t See Iran Cash Video
• GOP Rips Obama on ISIS, $400M ‘Blood Money’ Deal With Iran
• J.D. Hayworth Tells Chris Matthews: ‘Rigged’ Election Real

• CNN Airs Nearly 200 Times More Coverage On Trump Controversies Than Iran
• Obama on Secret Iran Cash Payment: ‘We Do Not Pay Ransom’
• Obama Says Anti-ISIS Strategy is Working: ‘They Will Inevitably Be Defeated’
• Study: CDC Profiles Smokers Based on Race and Ethnicity

• Democratic aide who was hired to help attract the Asian vote posted racist rants online
• Clint Eastwood backs Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton

• Black Lives Matter protests around the country
• How to explain the US presidential election to a four year old

• Trump campaign woes intensify amid questions over Melania’s visa
• Obama says Trump’s policies would ‘backfire’ in fight against Isis