RESURRECTION: 75 years after it was first deployed, will US Army bring back the ‘jeep’?

Earlier this year the U.S. Army had negotiations with Hendrick Dynamics, which developed a modified light off-road vehicle built on the Jeep Wrangler with a modified JP-8 diesel engine. This Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) vehicle was dubbed the Commando and is now officially designated the Grand Mobility Vehicle (GMV).

“We’re right in the transition to light mobility for our military,” Marshall Carlson, Hendrick Dynamics’ general manager, told FoxNews.com. “This is much lighter than the JLTV, and it won’t be armored – it is what is being called a ‘better boot.’ The GMV is for those light infantry and airborne infantry that can only move across the battlefield by walking at 3mph. This is literally a people mover that can go anywhere.”

What also makes the GMV program notable is that Hendrick Dynamics is contracting the Jeeps from Chrysler, which is bringing the iconic vehicle back to the battlefield.

A certain segment of Jeep Wrangler fans has clamored for years for a diesel option. Hendrick Dynamics would have a license to print money if someday they’re able to make the Commando available for civilian sale. But for now at least, the Commando is sold only to “government agencies and commercial clients.”

I’d take one in green.

AT LAST: The Smithsonian is Hiring a Beer Historian.

THE NEW CIVILITY:

Bernie protesters chanting "fuck you Debbie" as they make their way to the #DNCinPHL pic.twitter.com/Yj1HYxdqxB

— Jim Dalrymple II (@JimDalrympleII) July 25, 2016

HERE’S YOUR OFFICIAL DNC DRINKING GAME: And why I, the VodkaPundit, will not be playing.

SPOILER ALERT: Someone might have been “careless.”

BREAKING: FBI confirms that it's investigating hack involving Democratic National Committee emails.APNewsAlert

— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) July 25, 2016

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: Thousands of Turkey coup prisoners ‘raped, starved and hogtied’

Two lawyers in Ankara working on behalf of detainees told Amnesty International that detainees said they witnessed senior military officers in detention being raped with a truncheon or finger by police officers.

A person on duty at the Ankara Police Headquarters sports hall saw a detainee with severe wounds consistent with having been beaten, including a large swelling on his head.

The detainee could not stand up or focus his eyes and he eventually lost consciousness.

While in some cases detainees were afforded limited medical assistance, police refused to allow this detainee essential medical treatment despite his severe injuries.

The interviewee heard one police doctor on duty say: “Let him die. We will say he came to us dead.”

Erdogan’s anti-democratic purge seems worse than a successful military coup would have been.

IT WASN’T A FAILED COUP; IT’S A SUCCESSFUL PURGE: Retired U.S. General Dismisses Allegations He Masterminded Turkey Coup.

John Campbell, a retired four-star general who oversaw the U.S.-led military coalition in Afghanistan until May, told The Wall Street Journal that the story “doesn’t even warrant a response.”

“It’s absolutely ridiculous,” Mr. Campbell said of the front-page article in Yeni Safak, a pro-government Turkish newspaper.

On July 15, a small group of Turkish generals unsuccessfully tried to topple the government in a coup attempt that was thwarted after thousands of Turkish citizens heeded President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ’s call to take to the streets and resist.

Within hours, the coup crumbled. Mr. Erdogan has responded to the attempted military coup with a sweeping crackdown and a three-month state of emergency.

In the days since the failed military coup, some members of the Turkish government and newspapers supporting Mr. Erdogan have accused the U.S. of secretly backing the plot.

The U.S. government has categorically dismissed the allegations, which have helped stoke anti-American sentiment in Turkey.

Why would members of the Turkish government and pro-government outlets accuse the US of masterminding the “coup,” when the Obama Administration has been and still is a strong backer of the Erdogan regime?

BUT OF COURSE: IS Claims Responsibility for Ansbach Attack.

Also this:

A European Union spokesman has acknowledged “serious loopholes” in the bloc’s current rules on the acquisition and possession of firearms, but said the EU’s executive has submitted proposals for tighter regulation.

Germany’s vice-chancellor called for tightened gun laws following last Friday’s shooting spree in Munich in which an 18-year-old gunman who is believed to have purchased his firearm illegally on the internet killed nine people as well as himself.

If adopted, the EU Commission’s package of proposals will “make it more difficult to acquire firearms in the European Union, allow to better track legally held firearms and strengthen the cooperation between all member states,” EU spokesman Ricardo Cardoso said Monday.

Next on the EU’s agenda, strict controls on axes and metal splinters.

CHANGE MORE OF THE SAME: Castro floated to replace resigning DNC Chairwoman.

This is the same HUD Secretary Julian Castro who flouted the Hatch Act last month without so much as a shrug from the Justice Department, so he’d fit right in.

STUPID IS AS STUPID PARTY DOES: Official GOP Site’s Response to Kaine Choice Is Stunningly Awful.

BUSINESS AS USUAL: Leaked DNC Documents Show Plans To Reward Big Donors With Federal Appointments.

The documents, which were circulated among top DNC officials in April, could raise legal questions for the party, says Ken Boehm, the chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center, a government watchdog group.

“The disclosed DNC emails sure look like the potential Clinton Administration has intertwined the appointments to federal government boards and commissions with the political and fund raising operations of the Democratic Party,” Boehm told The Daily Caller.

“That is unethical, if not illegal.”

Why are Democrat-run institutions — in this case the Democrat Party itself — such cesspits of official corruption?

CNN/ORC: Trump up after con bump.

HERE’S VIDEO OF DWS GETTING BOOED OUT OF HER OWN DNC BREAKFAST:

.@DWStweets booed off the stage at her own FL delegation breakfast @NBCNews pic.twitter.com/GMe0g9t1JQ

— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) July 25, 2016

The DNC email leak has legs.

LEAKED EMAILS: No homo.

RESET: Russians suspected of hacking Democratic National Committee emails.

Maybe Putin is concerned that Hillary Clinton isn’t the honest type of politician who stays bought.

THE FIX IS IN: ’60 Minutes’ Doesn’t Air Hillary Dodge About DNC Interference.

The Wikileaks news was breaking Saturday when CBS’s Scott Pelley sat down with Clinton and her new running mate, Virginia senator Tim Kaine, for an interview that aired Sunday evening on 60 Minutes. There’s plenty covered in the interview that ran on TV, but perhaps the newsiest topic of the day, the DNC turmoil, didn’t make it into the broadcast. In a video posted under the banner of 60 Minutes Overtime and touted as an “unaired” clip from the interview, Pelley asked Clinton and Kaine about the leak. Clinton’s answers—or, more accurately, her non-answers—on what she knew about DNC interference in the primary were…curious. Among them was Clinton’s unwillingness to say any such intervention by the party committee to favor one candidate would be “improper.”
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This isn’t the first time CBS and 60 Minutes have done something like this. During the 2012 presidential election, CBS released a previously unaired clip from an interview between Steve Kroft and Barack Obama that seemed to back up the president’s claim during a debate with Mitt Romney that he had, indeed, deemed the September 11 assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi as a terrorist attack. But, as Bret Baier pointed out at the time, just days before the election, CBS unceremoniously published the fuller portion of the interview that showed Obama contradicting himself on this point.

For all the fuss about the GOP “establishment,” the Democrats actually have one — and it works.

BUT OF COURSE: Tolerance Was A Lie The Left Used To Get Power.

For decades, liberals, with the help of the mainstream media, have championed tolerance of people groups and ideas, specifically on race, sexuality, and social welfare programs. Much of their success has been due to their claimed love for tolerance and big-tent pretense.

Yet it’s becoming increasingly clear many liberals don’t actually practice the very tolerance they advocate. They hold a double standard for one set of progressives—the elite media and politicians—and another for the rest of society, which undermines the Left’s credibility. That once-banner statement for liberalism—“I disagree but will defend to the death your right to say what you think—is now dead, replaced with a naked, de-principled thirst for power. Those slogans were useful bait while they lasted. Now for the reality show.

Read the whole thing.

CHANGE MORE OF THE SAME: Liberal Democrats to Play Major Role at Convention’s Opening Night.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign plans to open her nominating convention Monday with a full-throated overture to the Democratic Party’s liberal wing, hoping to mend rifts and put to rest grievances that have jeopardized party unity.

Two of the speakers on the convention’s opening night are U.S. senators whose fiery denunciations of corporate power and wealth have made them darlings of the left: Bernie Sanders of Vermont, Mrs. Clinton’s rival in the presidential primaries, and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.

Where are all the handwringing analysis pieces about the Democratic Party’s frightening lurch to the left?

ANSBACH BOMBER: More details emerge on the 27-year-old Syrian national.

Authorities said the bomber, who has not been named, entered Germany two years ago.

He had applied for asylum in the country, but his application was rejected. However, he remained in the country, as it is German policy to not allow rejected applicants to return to war zones.

The bomber was known to police in Ansbach for previous offenses, including drug crimes, Herrmann said. He had also twice attempted suicide before the bombing.

“Because how this backpack and the bomb were packed, especially with so many metal splinters, which could have killed and injured many more people, this act cannot be purely assessed as a suicide,” Herrmann said.

Asylum rejected, known by police for previous offenses, multiple attempts at suicide, still able to case a music festival while carrying a backpack full of explosives and shrapnel.

UPDATE: Just in from Conflict News, no link yet.

BREAKING: German official says Ansbach bomber received 2 deportation orders, latest on July 13 – AP

— Conflict News (@Conflicts) July 25, 2016

INSIDERS: Obama, Warren will outshine Clinton in Philly.

A survey of The POLITICO Caucus — a panel of activists, strategists and operatives in 11 key battleground states — finds that, despite Clinton’s imminent nomination for president, Democratic insiders think Obama and Warren will make the more effective case for their party in speeches at the Wells Fargo Center this week.

Asked who would deliver the most effective address, nearly half of Democratic insiders, 49 percent, said Obama. Another 26 percent picked Warren.

Just 10 percent chose Clinton — the same percentage that said her husband would make the most effective case for the party.

“This is Obama’s party,” said a Florida Democrat, who, like all insiders, completed the survey anonymously. “He’ll light the place up and pass the torch of a united party, then we’ll all pray she doesn’t screw it up between now and November.”

Insiders, what would we do without them?

IT WASN’T A FAILED COUP; IT’S A SUCCESSFUL PURGE: Turkey’s Erdogan, using emergency decree, shuts private schools, charities, unions.

All hotbeds of violent political subversion, I’m sure.

GOOD BOY: Dog’s heroic action saves 79-year-old owner’s life.

SCOTTY, TWO TO DRINK UP: Celebrating 50 years of Star Trek with Schmaltz Brewing Company’s “The Trouble with Tribbles” beer.

I’m holding out for a blackmarket bottle of Romulan Ale — only for medicinal purposes, of course.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: SOCOM Looking to Stealth Motorcycles.

The prototypes were first developed in 1980.

ME NEITHER:

Must say I am shocked to see millions fewer people watched Trump's acceptance speech than McCain's. Would've never predicted that.

— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) July 22, 2016

But he did top Romney.