"Liz Cheney won the GOP primary for Wyoming's at-large House seat Tuesday, clearing the biggest hurdle to Congress for the national security hawk and daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney.

"Cheney had 40 percent of the vote to state Sen. Leland Christensen's 23 percent when The Associated Press called the race with 73 percent of precincts reporting. State House Speaker Pro Tempore Tim Stubson took 18 percent and five other Republicans split the remainder of the vote."

"Burning down neighborhood business establishments, throwing bricks at cops, trashing police cars, and chasing white people -- all features of the Milwaukee riots -- may feel good, but they are simply more symptoms of the social breakdown that police are asked to respond to every day. Even if the cops conduct themselves perfectly in such communities, there will inevitably be tensions and tragedies that don't occur in more orderly places where young men aren't so often the perpetrators -- and victims -- of crime.

"The deeper question in the debate over policing is how we can keep the lives of so many young men like Sylville Smith from sliding off the rails. But trying to answer it doesn't hold the satisfaction of smashing windows, or provide ready fodder for cable-TV debates. And so the beat, drearily, goes on."

"She's a real nowhere girl. Sitting in her nowhere world. Making all her nowhere plans for nobody.

"Poor Hillary Clinton. She's trying so fervently to come up with at least one new, inspiring idea to jump-start a moribund economy and help the financially stressed-out middle class. She's like the economics professor in 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off': 'Anyone? Anyone?' But the left'€™s idea cupboard is pitifully empty. They literally, not figuratively, have nothing to offer except tax, spend, spin and then hit the button again. ...

"The Tax Foundation says that the Clinton tax and economic plan will actually reduce jobs by 300,000 and subtract from our already weakling economic growth rate. That means we will be flirting with recession.

"In short, this nowhere girl has a nowhere plan -- for nobody."

"So, how does Mrs. Clinton diagnose and suggest to cure the country'€™s stagnation? Her central pro-growth proposal is 'infrastructure' spending, $275 billion over five years, financed in part by some sharply higher taxes.

"Sure, America's roads and bridges could use patching. But how does this fix the growth problem? Nobody thinks that stagnant growth is centrally the fault of bad roads and bridges. No, the economic argument behind Mrs. Clinton's proposal is simply the endless drumbeat of fiscal stimulus: Spend taxed or borrowed money on anything, and the 'multiplier' will increase 'demand.'

"We've been at this since 2008. But the caution that stimulus should be 'timely, targeted, and temporary' has now been forgotten. Japan's massive 'infrastructure' spending and weak growth to show for it are forgotten. And if U.S. growth hasn't been kick-started by the trillions of stimulus so far -- the government has accumulated $8 trillion of debt since the recession began -- how will another $50 billion a year help?"

"LONDON - Almost 60 percent of countries are at high risk of using slave labor in their supply chains, according to a new global index launched on Thursday, which also ranked North Korea as having the worst record of slave labor in the world. ...

"Nearly 46 million people around the world are living as slaves, forced to work in factories, mines and farms, sold for sex, trapped in debt bondage or born into servitude, according to the 2016 Global Slavery Index by rights group Walk Free Foundation.

"Modern slavery has become a catch-all term to describe human trafficking, forced labor, debt bondage, sex trafficking, forced marriage and other slave-like exploitation."

"A new batch of State Department emails released Tuesday showed the close and sometimes overlapping interests between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department when Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state.

"The documents raised new questions about whether the charitable foundation worked to reward its donors with access and influence at the State Department, a charge that Mrs. Clinton has faced in the past and has always denied.

"In one email exchange, for instance, an executive at the Clinton Foundation in 2009 sought to put a billionaire donor in touch with the United States ambassador to Lebanon because of the donor's interests there."

"The Obama administration is entering its final months, but it's never too late to further diminish US influence and discomfit our allies.

"President Obama is considering adopting a policy of No First Use, i.e. declaring that the United States would never use nuclear weapons except after a nuclear attack on itself or its allies. From Obama's perspective, this change would have the dual advantage of being something the president can legitimately do on his own while also representing a radical departure in the country's nuclear doctrine. ...

"[T]here is nothing to recommend No First Use unless you are a lame-duck president heedless of strategic reality and looking to make a gesture of anti-nuclear righteousness."

"In the past year 31 suspected ISIS terrorists have been arrested by American law enforcement, and three attacks have taken the lives of 63 people and wounded an additional 81 civilians.

"The suspected terrorists have been arrested for crimes ranging from planning to travel overseas to join ISIS fighters to soliciting the killing of American soldiers. Those arrested range from a 15 year old too young to be named to a former Army National Guardsman.

"The arrests almost all share one thing in common: the involvement of a FBI confidential informant."

"The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals on July 29 struck down North Carolina's 2013 voting law, which included a voter identification requirement and reduced the number of days before Election Day on which people could vote.

"It is perfectly reasonable for a state to demand that voters show ID at the polls, but the court decision and others recently handed down in other states suggest a systematic campaign is underway to discredit this basic truth. The principal weapon used in this campaign is the Left's favorite: racial discrimination. ...

"There is no evidence that those who lack ID are concentrated in any minority population. That's one reason why ID laws did not reduce black turnout in any of the many states, including North Carolina, which recently introduced them. Nor did those ID laws in effect before 2008 prevent record black turnout in the states where they had already been enacted. ...

"ID requirements are much less dangerous to democracy than a lack of them. If those who vote don't have to prove they are citizens and entitled to do so, the result in tight races will be skewed. In fact, it's reasonable to suppose that many of those most fanatically opposed to vote ID laws are primarily concerned that a useful cover for voter fraud will be eliminated."

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"Last week, William Binney, a 30-year career official at the National Security Agency (NSA) turned whistleblower, revealed the unthinkable. Mr. Binney, who devised the software that the NSA has used to capture the contents of emails and cellphone conversations of all in America but resigned from the NSA because of the unlawful and unconstitutional manner in which the software was used, told a Philadelphia radio audience that the DNC hacking was most likely done by NSA agents.

"Why would the NSA hack into DNC computers, and why would the NSA leak what its agents saw? ...

"The intelligence community's antipathy toward Mrs. Clinton has two general sources. One is her misuse of emails containing state secrets. Among the top-secret emails that the FBI discovered on Mrs. Clinton's non-secure private servers were some that revealed the names of U.S. intelligence agents operating undercover in the Middle East. Because Mrs. Clinton emailed secrets to others who the FBI found were hacked by hostile foreign intelligence services and because she used a non-secure mobile email device while inside the territories of hostile governments, her 'extremely careless' use of her emails resulted in the termination of the undercover work of those whose cover she caused to be revealed. Many in the intelligence community also suspect that in some cases, U.S. undercover agents lost their lives because Mrs. Clinton failed to keep their identities secret."