In yesterday’s discussion about whether the Russians, who apparently hacked into the Democratic National Committee’s e-mails–see this for the evidence (HT: Tom Hering)–are trying to manipulate our election, reader Rustbeltrick cited another source that listed direct connections between Donald Trump and the Russian government. According to
The Democrats had their roll call of the states, and Hillary Clinton was formally chosen as the party’s nominee for president. She is the first woman to achieve this distinction. (more…)
Donald Trump’s running mate Mike Pence describes himself as an “evangelical Catholic.” By which he means that he is a Catholic who attends an evangelical megachurch. There are quite a few of those, including another presidential candidate, Marco Rubio. (Megachurches don’t make such a big deal
Researchers are concluding that it was the Russians–indeed, a Russian intelligence agency–that hacked into the Democratic National Committee’s e-mails and gave them to Wikileaks. Which raises the question: Is Vladimir Putin working to get Donald Trump elected? Not only have the two expressed admiration for
The first day of the Democratic National Convention was marked by boos, shout downs, and loud protests on the part of Bernie Sanders supporters whenever a speaker called for the party to unite behind Hillary Clinton. They even booed Sanders when he said that! (more…)
Hillsdale professor and LCMS member Korey Maas has an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal about the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod convention action to allow women facing combat and registering for the draft to claim conscientious objector status. He goes into the legal implications of this decision,
Now it’s the Democrats’ turn to have a convention, beginning today and lasting through Thursday. Here are some things to watch for: (1) Both the Republicans and the Democratic contests featured an insurgent arrayed against the party establishment. In the Republican case, the insurgent won.
Someone hacked into some 20,000 e-mails from members of the Democratic National Committee, and they have been posted on Wikileaks. They reveal embarrassing details about how the party officials were trying to rig the primaries for Hillary Clinton. This included a plan to use Bernie
A terrorist shouting “Allahu Akbar” began shooting children in a McDonald’s at Munich. He then went on a rampage through a shopping mall, killing at least 9 and wounding more than 20. (more…)
Hillary Clinton picked former Virginia governor Tim Kaine as her running-mate. She could have picked someone from the left wing of the Democratic party, so as to placate Bernie Sanders supporters, but instead she chose a widely-experienced government official with the reputation as a moderate. Perhaps her
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