FLASHBACK: The Politically Incorrect Guide To Ending Poverty.

JOURNALISM: Halifax Chronicle-Herald “tampering with the news” again — to cover up for MORE “Middle Eastern” perps.

LIVEBLOGGING THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION, DAY ONE.

WALTER HUDSON: We’ve Entered An Era Where ‘No Lives Matter.’

GUN HOMICIDES AREN’T AN AMERICAN PROBLEM, they’re a cities-run-by-corrupt-Democratic-machines problem. “The urban ghetto kill zones all have the same thing in common – run by liberal Democrats for decades.”

HEH: Why Is Everyone Commenting “Spicy Boi” On Hillary Clinton’s Instagram?

NEWS FROM THE RNC: Milo Yiannopoulos Proposed a Gay-Conservative Alliance and the Pro-Trump Crowd Loved It: ‘The left does not own homosexuals anymore,’ said Yiannopoulos. ‘We’re your gays!.’

DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH: Horror as 19 people are hospitalised by 17-year-old Afghan refugee wielding an AXE and shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ in German train rampage before police shot him dead as he fled the scene.

UPDATE: Another Day, Another Allahu Akbar. “The interior of the train was soaked in blood. . . . One thing is certain, he wasn’t kidnapped in Afghanistan and dragooned around the world to Germany. He came voluntarily, and either was a terrorist-in-waiting all the while, or else was radicalized by traumatic exposure to Western culture. The public policy issue implicated by such attacks is, of course, immigration.”

ANOTHER UPDATE: From the comments: “Allahu Akbar is Arabic for ‘My motives will be forever mysterious!'”

THAT’S BECAUSE IT OFFERS INSUFFICIENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRAFT: Elizabeth Warren sets the government loose on Airbnb, despite its middle-class benefits.

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HISTORY: “On the evening of July 18, 1969, Mary Jo Kopechne died while trying to free herself from Edward M. Kennedy’s submerged automobile in a tidal channel on Chappaquiddick Island.”

Democrats and the media lionized Kennedy even though they knew what he had done. They did so because his politics were good, and that washes away all sins on the left — because on the left, the only sin is for one’s politics to be incorrect.

CHAOS IN CLEVELAND: Trump fundraiser resigns in anger after floor eruption.

Gary Emineth, the former North Dakota GOP chairman who joined the Trump-RNC joint finance committee earlier month, says he was disgusted by the floor vote and immediately texted his resignation to Priebus.

Emineth says he’s furious the campaign and RNC worked in tandem to keep delegates from voting their conscience.

“I was on the Trump finance committee and I just resigned because that bully tactic is absurd,” Emineth said. “I just texted them right now. Why can’t the people be heard? I’ve been texting Reince for 10 minutes. He said we didn’t have the votes. We had 10, 11 states. They peeled people back. They were calling delegations asking people to step off the committee. You don’t do this in America. You do this in other countries.”

Today was supposed to be the “law and order” opening of the convention.

BARACK OBAMA’S LEGACY IS THAT FLAGS ARE PERPETUALLY AT HALF-STAFF: What Is a Constant Cycle of Violent News Doing to Us? Nothing good. I always say that if I ever quit blogging, it’ll be because I can’t take following the news anymore. It’s depressing.

JOURNALISM: Trust Languishes Down On Animal Farm.

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Iowa and Colorado delegations have left RNC convention. Will not return. #GOPinCLE

— Erdogone? (@DefendWallSt) July 18, 2016

BREAKING: GERMAN TRAIN ‘AXE ATTACK’: MANY REPORTED HURT. “More than 20 people in Germany have been injured after a man with an axe went on the rampage on a train, German media report,” the BBC reports.

UPDATE: “Bavarian Interior Minister says German train attacker was a 17-year-old Afghan boy who was an unaccompanied refugee,” Sky News reports.

MORE: Attacker shouted “Allahu Akbar,” according to the London Daily Mirror.

I THINK OBAMA CAN OFFICIALLY RETIRE AIR FORCE ONE NOW: Move over, hovercraft: Bubba Watson has a jetpack for the Olympics.

Well, this is the 21st century, you know.

FLOOR FIGHT: Chaos breaks out on the RNC floor.

A roll call vote was called over loud chants from the floor of the Republican Convention in Cleveland.

Known as the “Never Trump” movement or the “Unbind the delegates” movement, Ken Cuccinelli, the former attorney general of Virginia from 2010 to 2014, put his credentials on the podium and walked off.

“The chair was abandoned, it’s never happened like that,” said Sen. Mike Lee, R-UT.

As they say, “Developing…”

CLAIM: Facebook Is Ready To Replace TV News.

I still prefer blogs, myself.

NEUTRAL SCHOLARSHIP: “This is a picture of an exhibit at the British Museum. It is titled: ‘Islam and Europe.’ It says: ‘Following the revelation of Islam to the Prophet Muhammad ….’”

CHANGE, WITH CONTINUITY: Trump Inserts Obama’s Ukraine Policy Into RNC Platform.

BREAKING NEWS FROM 1933: Anti-Semitism ‘widespread’ among German extreme left.

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: After Turkey, An American Coup?