Holy Crap, Tim Kaine Just Killed It In His First Speech With Clinton  —  He spoke Spanish to the cheering crowds and delivered a healthy dose of humility in a diseased election year.  In other words, Tim Kaine just took America by storm.  —  Holy crap.  He killed it.  —  I'm not trying to spin you.

Trump Says He Prevented Cruz Being ‘Ripped’ Off Stage in Cleveland  —  The Republican presidential nominee gives his first interview since the Republican National Convention.  —  kevcirilli  —  In his first interview since the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump said he prevented Ted Cruz …

Bernie Sanders Campaign Chief Says Someone Must Be ‘Accountable’ for What DNC Emails Show  —  Bernie Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver said his team was “disappointed” by the emails from the Democratic National Committee leaked through WikiLeaks, which seemed to reveal staff in the party working to support Hillary Clinton.

At Fox News, Kisses, Innuendo, Propositions and Fears of Reprisal  —  In 2006, after nearly a decade at CNN, Rudi Bakhtiar came to the Fox News Channel's headquarters in New York with a command of foreign policy, an appealing personality and a delivery that easily switched between light and serious.

BBC Scrubs ‘Ali’ From Munich Killer's Name On TV, In Articles, AND On Social Media  —  The BBC has unilaterally chosen not to report the Munich attacker's full name, in what appears to be an attempt to scrub any Muslim or Islamic heritage link to its coverage of the incident.

Trump & Putin.  Yes, It's Really a Thing  —  Over the last year there has been a recurrent refrain about the seeming bromance between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.  More seriously, but relatedly, many believe Trump is an admirer and would-be emulator of Putin's increasingly autocratic and illiberal rule.

The Inevitable Guilt  —  Years back, when an obscure film maker of a you tube video got arrested for ...well, objectively for being a perfect scape goat.  —  I watched my husband and his sister go the full rounds with Dan saying “If they arrested him for anything, it was for making a movie against Islam …

Is Donald Trump a Racist?  —  HAS the party of Lincoln just nominated a racist to be president?  We shouldn't toss around such accusations lightly, so I've looked back over more than 40 years of Donald Trump's career to see what the record says.  —  One early red flag arose in 1973 …

Donald Trump Is Crazy, and So Is the GOP for Embracing Him  —  The Republican nominee opens his mouth and removes all doubt.  —  Trump's foreign policy speech, at Washington's Mayflower Hotel  —  Cleveland  —  Yes, Donald Trump is crazy.  And, yes, the Republican party owns his insanity.

On Violence, Obama Obfuscates As Usual  —  As Paul noted earlier, Democratic critics have unanimously painted Donald Trump's acceptance speech as “dark.”  (I'm a little surprised they didn't also say, in unison, that as he approached the podium he was lithe and fierce like a tiger.)