BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THERE IS REAL NEWS OUTSIDE OF CLEVELAND: Take, for example, the Government Accountability Office’s report that the cost of tax breaks for special interests, $1.2 trillion, now exceeds the cost of discretionary spending, $1.1 trillion, in the federal budget last year.

Then there’s sentencing of Warren Graves to three years in prison and a fine of $55,000? Who is Graves and what crime did he do? He was a key aide to three District of Columbia mayors, including most notably the infamous Marion Barry, and Vincent Gray, whose campaign was plagued by allegations of serious campaign finance abuses. What Graves did is filing a false tax return.