Michelle Goldberg Puts Mother of 5-Year-Old Migrant Rape Victim on Trial

From Pamela Geller, at Breitbart, "Slate Puts Mother of 5-Year-Old Rape Victim on Trial":

Slate magazine on Sunday published “If You Want to Live Here, You Need to Live by the Rules Here,” a 5,000-plus word exposition of the Muslim migrant rape case in Twin Falls, Idaho. Author Michelle Goldberg subtitles her piece: “A sexual assault case involving refugee children in Idaho. A microcosm of America in the age of Trump.” That tells you all you need to know: Goldberg and Slate are using this case to demonize opposition to the Democrats’ suicidal policies regarding Muslim migrants.

Goldberg doesn’t care about the five-year-old rape victim in Twin Falls in the slightest degree. In fact, throughout her lengthy piece and in texts with the victim’s mother, she puts this little girl and her family on trial.

Goldberg’s agenda is further exposed by the fact that throughout her wordy article, she doesn’t deign to include a full description of the attack itself. The closest Golberg comes to this is her account of the victim’s mother’s brief description of the video that the attackers took while they were raping the girl: “Her fiancé, she said, told her it showed oral sex as well as their daughter being urinated on.” But Goldberg follows this with prosecuting attorney Grant Loebs waxing “indignant at all the misrepresentations still swirling around about the case. ‘I’m a lifelong conservative Republican, and the behavior of the right-wing alternative press on this is atrocious.’” Loebs’ own dishonesty I have shown in a previous article.

The full exchange between Goldberg and the victim’s mother, whom Goldberg calls “Lori,” reveals how manipulative and deceitful Goldberg is. In text messages since shared with me, Goldberg appears determined to make the rape charge out to be some kind of cynical money-making scheme, questioning Lori about the GoFundMe page that was set up for the family — as if the family was claiming their daughter was raped by Muslim migrants only to make money. Goldberg presses Lori about the one-day suspension of the GoFundMe page in the wake of false charges that the rape claim was a “hoax” – was Goldberg hoping to expose the whole thing as a “hoax” as well?

In reality, the family is desperately poor and have not yet been able to move out of their apartment, where they have been living right next door to the rape suspect. Without any resources or powerful allies, they are going up against the well-greased leftist/Islamic machine in the media, law enforcement, refugee resettlement programs, and more.

In her text exchange, Goldberg repeatedly tries to manipulate Lori into reflecting Goldberg’s point of view. She disputes Lori’s account of what happening, at one point asking, “Wait, I thought there was no rape?” Lori has to remind her (spelling as in original): “Forced oral sex is a rape mam.”

Meanwhile, the victim’s mother told me this: “This is what my daughter has told me: that they grabbed her at knifepoint and forced her into the laundry room and told her that if she tried to leave, they would kill her. The seven-year-old boy took her clothes off. She tells me he put his private in her mouth and peed in her mouth, and put it in her private, and then peed all over her. And she said they recorded her, too… She also told the emergency room CARES doctor that they had a knife as well, and they found on her neck a cut. Then the day after, they claimed it was a scratch, when in fact it looked like a cut.”

Lori’s fiancée told me what he saw on the video: “I watched the 8-year-old boy push my daughter up against a wall and pull her pants down and his pants down; he then attempted to penetrate her from behind. She was able to run away and crouch in a corner shaking in fear while the boy danced around naked laughing at her. I stopped watching after that.”

How is it that Goldberg found these facts unremarkable, too insignificant to report?

Goldberg repeatedly asks Lori manipulative questions designed to depict Lori as having an anti-refugee agenda: “I’m just asking if you agree with those who want to make it a story about refugees, or if they’re taking advantage of your family’s tragedy.” “Are they not being charged because they’re refugees, or because they are minors?” “Did you worry about having people from the Middle East in your complex before, or only since this happened?”

Then in her article, Goldberg compares Cambodian refugees of the 1980s to what’s happening now. But this is a whole other thing: no previous group of refugees or immigrants has had a holy book that sanctions the sexual enslavement of non-believing women (cf. Quran 4:3, 4:24, 23:1-6, 33:50, 70:30). Goldberg does not, of course, discuss that. Instead, she writes: “At first glance, it might seem like an odd idea to bring traumatized foreigners to a remote, conservative American farming town.” But don’t worry: Michelle Goldberg will convince you otherwise.

Goldberg quotes Zeze Rwasama, whom she identifies as “the director of the CSI Refugee Center and a Congolese refugee himself,” saying: “The integration process happens faster than in big cities,” he said. “In small towns like this, everyone knows everyone. People are approachable.” Yeah, and rape-able, with a political and media machine ready to come to the aid of the rapist.

Further tilting the playing field, Goldberg writes: “Refugee advocates insist that the vast majority of Twin Falls citizens support the newcomers.” Who are these “advocates”? Has there been a vote, a referendum?

Zeroing in on her agenda, Goldberg also says: “This mounting demonization of refugees in Twin Falls has coincided, of course, with the rise of Donald Trump.” Of course, blame Trump. The fact is, this is not a which-came-first, the chicken or the egg thing. Anti-jihad and anti-sharia sentiment led to the rise of Trump, not the other way around. But Goldberg relentlessly pushes her agenda, looking for witnesses who call members of the counter-jihad group ACT “pure racists.” It’s plain slander.

Who is really looking to exploit the story here?

Goldberg's vile.

Really vile. Her book, "The Means of Reproduction," literally made me want to throw up while I was reading it.

But keep reading Pamela, in any case.

Plus, more here.

Not All U.S. Muslim Soldiers Are Equal

From Michelle Malkin:

Bronze Star and Purple Heart recipient Captain Humayun Khan died heroically. But his exceptional courage in Iraq and his Muslim father’s post-Democratic convention histrionics on TV do not erase the security threat posed by killer warriors of Allah infiltrating our troops.

Don’t take my word for it. Ask all the forgotten Gold Star moms and dads who have lost their children because politically correct pushovers at the Pentagon looked the other way at the Muslim military menace.

Don’t take my word for it. Just re-read the ignored warnings issued by Muslim soldier Nidal Hasan, the vengeful mass murderer who gunned down 13 service members — including a pregnant private first class who lost her life and her child — and wounded more than 30 others at Fort Hood in 2009.

Two years before his rampage, while a senior-year medical school resident in psychology, U.S. Army Major Hasan delivered a 50-slide PowerPoint presentation to classmates and military superiors at Walter Reed. It was titled “The Koranic World View As It Relates to Muslims in the U.S. Military.” Quoting chapter and verse, Hasan illuminated “what the Koran inculcates in the minds of Muslims and the potential implications this may have for the U.S. military.”

Hasan cited the Verse of the Sword (“I have been commanded to fight the people until they testify that there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah”), explained “offensive” and “defensive” jihad and summarized the concept of “abrogation” — in which warring verses of the Quran trumped “peaceful verses.”

In Slide 11, Hasan bemoaned: “It’s getting harder and harder for Muslims in the service to morally justify being in a military that seems constantly engaged against fellow Muslims.”

Slide 48 warned: “If Muslim groups can convince Muslims that they are fighting for God against injustices of the ‘infidels;’ i.e.: enemies of Islam, then Muslims can become a potent adversary i.e.: suicide bombing, etc. We love death more then you love life!”
Under Conclusions, Hasan recommended that the Department of Defense “allow Muslim Soldiers the option of being released as ‘conscientious objectors’ to increase troop morale and decrease adverse events.” Cowed military superiors ignored the presentation, just as they had dismissed complaints from fellow students who noted Hasan’s exaltation of Sharia over the Constitution and support for suicide bombings.

“Adverse events” was Hasan’s euphemism for bloody jihad attacks and betrayals by Muslim soldiers against their own fellow U.S. soldiers. He included a case I’ve never forgotten: Traitor Hasan Akbar, the 326th Engineer Battalion Muslim-American soldier who lobbed stolen hand grenades and shot his M-4 automatic rifle into three tents filled with sleeping commanding officers at the 101st Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade operations center in Kuwait in 2003.

Capt. Christopher Seifert, 27, and Maj. Gregory Stone, 40, died during the fragging. Fourteen others suffered wounds from grenade shrapnel.

Willful blindness to a Muslim-American soldier’s fundamental internal conflict of loyalties led to those murders and injuries. Despite several incidents of insubordination and prior invocation of his Islamic beliefs to skip out of the 1991 Persian Gulf War, Akbar’s superiors sent him to Kuwait — and put him in charge of clearing land mines.

A decade later, in 2013, former Muslim-American Navy veteran Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif and an accomplice were convicted of plotting to kill officers and employees at a Seattle military recruiting center. The would-be killers wanted to retaliate against “the American military presence in the Middle East” and to prevent our troops “from going to Islamic lands and killing Muslims.” The co-conspirators cited Nidal Hasan’s Fort Hood attack as inspiration.

In March, U.S. Air Force vet and avionics weapons systems expert Tairod Nathan Webster Pugh, who declared himself a “Mujahid,” was convicted of providing material support to ISIS. Last spring, 22-year-old Army National Guard specialist Hasan Edmonds was arrested on his way overseas to join the Islamic State. He had plotted attacks on his Illinois National Guard Armory, police stations and courts.

Over the years, I’ve reported on many more of Allah’s soldiers in American uniforms, including...

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Boy Shouts 'Take That Bitch Down!' (i.e., Hillary Clinton) at Donald Trump Rally; Leftist Media Goes Nuts

Look, we had eight years of the left's "climate of hate" when George W. Bush was in office, and now all of a sudden mainstream media outlets are outraged that some kid yelled "take that bitch down!" at a Donald Trump campaign rally?

Because, you know, we have an "objective" press.

At WSJ, "Boy’s Crude Chant Draws Attention at Trump Rally."

America in 2016 https://t.co/qkxK0APufP pic.twitter.com/LYA0JGlQCe

— Reid J. Epstein (@reidepstein) August 3, 2016

Obama Administration Secretly Shipped $400 Million in Cash to Iran as Hostages Were Released

And this was the same weekend that the administration concluded the nuclear disarmament accord with Tehran.

So, the U.S. paid ransom, in cold-hard cash, which just happened to grease the palms of Iranian arms negotiators.

The Wall Street Journal has the bombshell story, "U.S. Sent Cash to Iran as Americans Were Freed":

Obama administration sent plan load of cash to #Iran as ransom as part of deal on hostages. Just unreal. https://t.co/UHfdK4BEyN

— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) August 3, 2016

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration secretly organized an airlift of $400 million worth of cash to Iran that coincided with the January release of four Americans detained in Tehran, according to U.S. and European officials and congressional staff briefed on the operation afterward.

Wooden pallets stacked with euros, Swiss francs and other currencies were flown into Iran on an unmarked cargo plane, according to these officials. The U.S. procured the money from the central banks of the Netherlands and Switzerland, they said.

The money represented the first installment of a $1.7 billion settlement the Obama administration reached with Iran to resolve a decades-old dispute over a failed arms deal signed just before the 1979 fall of Iran’s last monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

The settlement, which resolved claims before an international tribunal in The Hague, also coincided with the formal implementation that same weekend of the landmark nuclear agreement reached between Tehran, the U.S. and other global powers the summer before.

“With the nuclear deal done, prisoners released, the time was right to resolve this dispute as well,” President Barack Obama said at the White House on Jan. 17—without disclosing the $400 million cash payment.

Senior U.S. officials denied any link between the payment and the prisoner exchange. They say the way the various strands came together simultaneously was coincidental, not the result of any quid pro quo.

“As we’ve made clear, the negotiations over the settlement of an outstanding claim…were completely separate from the discussions about returning our American citizens home,” State Department spokesman John Kirby said. “Not only were the two negotiations separate, they were conducted by different teams on each side, including, in the case of The Hague claims, by technical experts involved in these negotiations for many years.”

But U.S. officials also acknowledge that Iranian negotiators on the prisoner exchange said they wanted the cash to show they had gained something tangible.

Sen. Tom Cotton, a Republican from Arkansas and a fierce foe of the Iran nuclear deal, accused President Barack Obama of paying “a $1.7 billion ransom to the ayatollahs for U.S. hostages.”

“This break with longstanding U.S. policy put a price on the head of Americans, and has led Iran to continue its illegal seizures” of Americans, he said.

Since the cash shipment, the intelligence arm of the Revolutionary Guard has arrested two more Iranian-Americans. Tehran has also detained dual-nationals from France, Canada and the U.K. in recent months...

Keep reading.

Megyn Kelly's been covering this, with Marc Thiessen on right now laughing at the administration's denials of a quid pro quo.

I'll have updates, because this should be a blockbuster story with lots of staying power, but with the leftist Democrat media complex, it's practically crickets with stuff like this.

How's the 2016 Election College Map Shaping Up? (VIDEO)

Greta Van Susteren was on "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" yesterday.

Cenk Uygur predicted a Donald Trump win in the Electoral College, and Greta agrees with his analysis going forward (not as of yesterday though).

Watch, on Twitter, "How is the 2016 election shaping up? Share your fantasy electoral map with us."

Meanwhile, I've never heard of Mike Shannon, but he's predicting a Hillary Clinton blowout in the fall.

I've gotta say, after that NBC poll with the 8-point spread this morning, and that was after CNN's poll Sunday with the 9-point spread, it's definitely not going too well for Trump right now.

But we'll see. We'll see.

I would say that race is going to remain neck-and-neck going into the late-summer stretch, but the media is intent to pick apart every word Trump utters for political incorrectness, and it's going to have an effect.

Doutzen Kroes Bikini Paddleboarding in Ibiza

She's nice.

At the Sun U.K., "Stunning supermodel Doutzen Kroes reveals her incredible bikini body in Ibiza with husband Sunnery James and their children."

And Egotastic!, "Doutzen Kroes Paddleboarding."

Deal of the Day: Noon Virtual Reality Headset [BUMPED]

At Amazon, NOON VR - Virtual Reality Headset (NVRG-01).

And, Thermos Back to School Sale.

Also, Michael Holt, The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War.

Richard Ben Cramer, What It Takes: The Way to the White House.

More, from John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime, and Double Down: Game Change 2012.

John Sides and Lynn Vavreck, The Gamble: Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election.

BONUS: Theodore White, The Making of the President 1960.

Khizr Khan Scrubs Law Firm's Website from the Internet

Heh.

You think he might've thought about this before trashing Donald Trump?

At Breitbart, "Panic Mode: Khizr Khan Deletes Law Firm Website that Specialized in Muslim Immigration."

Also, at Pat Dollard, "EXPOSED: Unhinged Trump Hater Khizr Khan Is A Muslim Brotherhood Agent Pushing Sharia, Immigration Jihad."

Walid Shoebat's doing the yeoman's work on this. I linked him up here, "Kizhr Khan Khantroversy Nontroversy."

Long and Difficult Battle to Beat 'Entrenched' Islamic State in Libya (VIDEO)

I think we're getting a little "wag the dog" action from the Obama White House.

It's not like ISIS just hunkered down in Libya yesterday, or anything.

At WSJ, "Libya, U.S. Face Entrenched Islamic State":

Even with the U.S. launching airstrikes on an Islamic State stronghold in Libya, the battle to uproot the extremists from the oil-rich North African nation is expected to be long and difficult.

The U.S. began the attacks on Monday and struck again on Tuesday in support of a ground offensive to retake Sirte, a strategic port on the Mediterranean coast. But Islamic State is also entrenched in other pockets across the country, including parts of the eastern city of Benghazi, Libya’s second largest; Derna, another eastern city; and the western town of Sabratha, near the Tunisian border.

The competing militias and centers of power that have stoked Libya’s civil war complicate the fight against Islamic State. The chaos has given the group an opening to gain its first territorial foothold outside its self-declared caliphate in Iraq and Syria.

Libya has two rival governments—one that is internationally recognized in the capital, Tripoli, and another based in the east. The competing governments so far have refused to work together to defeat Islamic State or toward national unity, despite international efforts.

President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that he hopes combating Islamic State will help move Libya toward a functioning government, something he said would be “a long process.”

Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis said that Mr. Obama’s authorization is limited to using U.S. air power to help Libyan forces allied with the Tripoli government retake Sirte.

In the quest to defeat Islamic State in Libya, international and regional powers have haphazardly supported competing factions, worsening the protracted civil war that allows the insurgents to thrive, said Abubaker Baira, a parliamentarian representing the eastern government.

“Unfortunately all sides of the Libyan conflict happily open their doors to this so-called military or political support, even if covertly, in the hope it will empower them against their domestic enemies,” Mr. Baira said. “What they don’t seem to realize is this only further entrenches this civil war that has gone on too long already.”

Western officials have worried that Islamic State was trying to establish Libya as a fallback alternative to its shrinking territory in Syria and Iraq, where it captured a large swath of territory in 2014...

More.

And flashback, "Obama's Libya Intervention Created North Africa's Worst Terror State, Drug Trafficker, and Arms Exporter."

Iraq Veteran Gives Donald Trump His Purple Heart at Virginia Campaign Rally (VIDEO)

Hmm, I'm sure this will be all over the news today.

At McClatchy, "Trump receives Purple Heart from veteran: ‘This was much easier’":

Trump told the audience during his rally that “something very nice just happened to me. A man came up to me and he handed me his Purple Heart.”

As the audience aahed, Trump continued: “I said to him, ‘Is that like the real one or is that a copy? And he said, ‘That’s my real Purple Heart. I have such confidence in you.’”

“And I said, ‘Man that’s big stuff.’ I always wanted to get the Purple Heart. This was much easier, but I tell you it was such an honor.”

Trump, who identified the veteran as retired Lt. Col. Louis Dorfman, then brought him up on stage and shook hands, holding the award up again for the crowd. According to records, Dorfman was wounded in action in November 2007 in Iraq.

The giving of the Purple Heart followed a days-long feud in the press between Trump and the family of Capt. Humayun Khan, who was killed in action in Iraq in 2004...

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How Danish Bombshell Nina Agdal Stays in Shape While Still Having Fun? (VIDEO)

Via the New York Post, she's got a great champagne-vodka theory, heh.

Khizr Khan's Saudi Ties

From Robert Spencer, at FrontPage Magazine:

Are the Saudis trying to make sure that the candidate of their choice is elected President of the United States this November?

Khizr Khan is more than just the father of slain Muslim U.S. serviceman Humayun Khan and the mainstream media’s flavor of the moment in its ongoing efforts to demonize and destroy Donald Trump. As far as the Obama administration and Hillary campaign are concerned, he is a living validation of the success of their strategy against “extremism”: by refusing to identify the enemy as having anything to do with Islam, they draw moderate Muslims to their side and move them to fight against terrorism. By contrast, Trump, in their view, alienates these moderates and drives them into the arms of the terrorists.

That all sounds great. There’s just one catch: Khizr Khan, and the Clinton campaign, have extensive ties to the Saudis – far more extensive than any possible connection that Donald Trump’s campaign may have had to Russia’s alleged involvement in the leak of emails that revealed that the entire Democratic Party presidential nominating process was rigged from the start. Not that the mainstream media will pause from speculating about Trump and the Russians long enough to tell you any facts about Khizr Khan, Hillary and the Saudis.

Intelius records that Khizr Khan has worked at Hogan Lovells Llp. According to the Washington Free Beacon, “Hogan Lovells LLP, another U.S. firm hired by the Saudis, is registered to work for the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia through 2016, disclosures show. Robert Kyle, a lobbyist from the firm, has bundled $50,850 for Clinton’s campaign.”

The Free Beacon added that the Saudi government has “supplied the Clinton Foundation with millions. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has given between $10 and $25 million to the foundation while Friends of Saudi Arabia has contributed between $1 and $5 million.”

And so we were treated to the spectacle of an employee of a firm that is registered to work for the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia lambasting Donald Trump at the Democratic National Convention, and then (lo and behold!) becoming a media darling as he excoriates Trump for his “black soul.”

Might the government of Saudi Arabia, which has spent countless bullions of dollars spreading the virulent and violent Wahhabi strain of Islam around the world, have any interest in making sure that a presidential candidate who speaks more forthrightly about the Islamic terror threat than any presidential candidate has since John Quincy Adams, and who has vowed to take concrete steps to counter that threat, is defeated? Is that why Khizr Khan, brimming with self-righteous indignation and misleading disinformation about the relationship of Islamic jihad terrorism to Islam, was not only featured at the Democratic National Convention but has dominated the news cycle ever since?

This has gone on long enough. The 28-page section of the 9/11 report detailing Saudi involvement in the September 11, 2001 jihad attacks were just finally released (albeit with substantial portions still redacted), after being kept classified for fifteen years by one President who held hands with the Saudi King and another who bowed to him. And for fifteen years, the U.S. has done little or nothing to free itself from dependence upon Saudi oil and develop alternative energy sources. Why not? We know the Saudis have kept the Clintons’ palms abundantly greased. Who else’s?

The big story of foreign influence in this presidential election is not some vague imaginings about the Russians supposedly hacking Democratic National Committee emails showing the Democrats engaged in indisputably unethical behavior. The real foreign influence story in this election involves the Saudis and the Democrats. Saudi influence in Washington must end. Khizr Khan represents an all-out effort by the mainstream media and the Democratic Party establishment to maintain that influence. In light of that, Donald Trump was right to answer his attacks, and should have been even stronger in his responses. It’s time for the United States of America to regain its independence.

The Left's 'Khantroversy' Has Had No Effect on Presidential Race in Battleground Pennsylvania

I first checked Ohio, which is basically tied according to RCP's average of polls for the Buckeye state, although the last surveys there were conducted before the Democrat convention and the Khantroversy.

But battleground Pennsylvania was surveyed by Public Policy Polling from July 29 to 31, so it should show any damage to Donald Trump since the shameless hate-America left started exploiting Kizhr Khan last Thursday. But frankly, it's really nothing.

Hillary Clinton has a narrow lead in the Keystone state.

At PPP, "Clinton has narrow lead in Pennsylvania":

PPP's newest Pennsylvania poll, conducted entirely after the Democratic convention, finds Hillary Clinton with a narrow lead in the state. She's at 45% to 42% for Donald Trump, 4% for Gary Johnson, and 2% for Jill Stein. In a head to head match up just with Trump she leads by 4 points at 49-45.

Both polls- in Pennsylvania and nationally- PPP has done since the Democratic convention basically suggest that the race is back where it was in June. In late June we had Clinton up 46-42 on Trump head to head in Pennsylvania and 48-44 nationally. Clinton now leads 49-45 in Pennsylvania and 50-45 nationally so it appears everything that happened in the month of July had minimal effect on the margins between Clinton and Trump, it just helped move some undecided partisans skeptical of their party's nominees off the fence and toward the candidates they likely would have ended up with anyway.

Hillary Clinton's seen a decent improvement in her image over the last couple months in Pennsylvania. At the beginning of June she had a -21 net favorability rating in the state at 35/56, and that's now improved 8 points to -13 at 40/53. Like we saw nationally Trump's had an improvement in his numbers too but it's not as good as Clinton's- he was at -25 at 34/59 in early June and has now shifted up to -20 at 36/56 for a net 5 point improvement...

PPP didn't survey respondents about Khan, so that's one caveat.

But the poll has a heavy sample of Democrats (49 percent of respondents voted for Obama in 2012 and 41 for Romney).

Given the breakdown, and the enormous media coverage nationally over Khan, Hillary should be up by almost double-digits in Pennsylvania.

It's time for Trump to move on from this fake scandal and get back to hammering the Democrats and the economy and corruption.

Donald Trump Damage Control

Yeah, this is a "Khantroversy," although that doesn't mean it's not damaging Donald Trump.

As I've been saying, he needs to ignore this fight and move on to attacking Hillary in the economy and corruption.

But some are talking like this is the fatal blow, that Trump won't recover this time. I say nah. But there's definitely some damage. And the sooner he's past it the better.

Meanwhile, here's Cathleen Decker's analysis, at the Los Angeles Times, "Trump mired in another day of controversy with family of soldier killed in Iraq":

The threat to Trump’s campaign comes largely in its timing. Fewer than 100 days remain before the general election, putting the campaigns in a period in which stumbles become more dangerous because there is less time to craft a recovery.

As important, any time taken to try to clean up campaign messes pulls attention away from issues with greater political upside. Only when he got to Columbus, Ohio, for example, did Trump mention the meager economic growth figures released last week; any emphasis on them had been obliterated by the feud between Trump and the Khan family...

More.

RELATED: From Stuart Rothenberg, at WaPo, via Memeorandum, "Will GOP officials jump ship on Trump?"

Actually, "GOP officials" have been jumping ship since Trump's inevitability first became clear. The "Khantroversy's" just give 'em another excuse to bail out. Fuck 'em.

Hillary Clinton Up 50 to 42 Percent in NBC/SurveyMonkey Poll

Well, so much for my theory of under-sampling Republicans.

I suspect Hillary's gotten a decent bounce out of Philadelphia.

At NBC News, "Poll: Clinton Support Spikes Following Democratic Convention." (Via Memeorandum.)

So, I can go with that. The Survey Monkey poll's an online non-probability panel, but so far the results look fairly respectable.

And frankly, the race is tightening at the Los Angeles Times Presidential Election Daybreak Poll, with Trump now barely ahead of Clinton, 45.3/43.1.

More at Hot Air.

After Bernie Sanders' Campaign, Pushing the Democrats Farther Left

From the far-left Harold Meyerson, at Dissent, "The Democrats After Bernie."

Actually, the most radical thing proposed in here is breaking up big banks. The rest pretty much sounds like the Democrat platform. I don't think Hillary's all that "centrist" as Meyerson makes her out to be. Bernie pushed her farther to the left, but she didn't go kicking and screaming.

The activists who campaigned for Bernie Sanders are clearly the Democrats’ future. Can they remake the party? https://t.co/vXRlRypqq4

— Dissent Magazine (@DissentMag) July 21, 2016

Which is Better: Socialism or Capitalism? Which One Makes People Kinder and More Caring? (VIDEO)

I see so much hatred on the left, I'd be surprised if anyone but a conservative would be open to this argument.

But he's right.

Watch Dennis Prager, for Prager University:

Khizr and Ghazala Khan 'Trotted Out' for Political Opportunity

It's sickening.

Here's Salena Zito:

I am saddened and unable to watch this grief stricken mother and father trotted out at every turn for a political party to make a point.

— SalenaZito (@SalenaZitoTrib) August 1, 2016

The Road to the White House Lies on the Lincoln Highway

From Salena Zito, a fantastic piece, "The Road to the White House lies on the Lincoln Highway between Ohio and Pennsylvania":

The elections fault line runs along the old highway that connects Cleveland to Philadelphia https://t.co/xohV1f5nN8 pic.twitter.com/FNhCqFYK3s

— SalenaZito (@SalenaZitoTrib) July 31, 2016

Near Chambersburg, on the 437-mile trip over the Lincoln Highway, a man named Eric, 54, sat in a diner and told how politics has impacted his life in a way he never imagined.

“I voted for Barack Obama in 2008 because I truly believed his inspirational vision for this country,” he said. “I really thought he was going to take us all together to the same place.

“Losing my job wasn't Obama's fault — happened long before him.”

By 2012, however, he realized Obama was not the change-agent he once thought. He also realized the economy was never going to return to the way it was; he adjusted, took two full-time jobs, cut back on his family's lifestyle and sat out that year's election.

“Don't get me wrong, his words are still inspirational — they are beautiful, in fact — but his actions are not, and his attitude toward me and my values, my traditions and my work ethic are personal,” Eric said.

He gulped and tears welled in his eyes: “Politics and divisions have ripped my heart out. My kids come home and argue that racism is why I don't like Obama. That's not true, that could not be more untrue, but you can't even argue it, because then your argument becomes that you are racist.”

How could his country do this to him, to his family, he asked. “I have done everything by the book all of my life, and when I was handed a raw deal … I didn't complain, I put my head down and I just found a way to make it work.”

He's not alone...

RTWT.

Why Trump Resonates

Well, it's not like it's a mystery or anything.

Frankly, all the themes Trump's been hitting are now the themes the Democrat-left is jonesing to take up: economic growth, jobs, national security, patriotism. It's kind of a joke, frankly. And of course the media's in Hillary's tank, so that's a double whammy Trump's got to overcome.

He needs to talk about the key issues before the electorate. Don't get sidetracked on these peripheral issues, which the left will just use to bait him.

But see Instapundit, "WHY TRUMP’S MESSAGE IS RESONATING WITH SO MANY VOTERS."

And click though at the link.