| By Derek Caney (@stax920)
The themes were familiar: law and order, bad trade deals, Benghazi, radical Muslims; emails, rigged system, building a wall. If you did like him, Donald Trump's execution was passionate and unyielding. If you didn’t, it was shrill, angry and sounded a bit like he was describing a dystopian apocalyptic landscape. And at the end, balloons fell. 
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Quote of the day: “But here, at our convention, there will be no lies. We will honor the American people with the truth, and nothing else.” – Donald Trump Some fact checks: "Homicides last year increased by 17 percent in America's 50 largest cities. That's the largest increase in 25 years." This is correct for 2015, but it ignores the fact that over the last two decades, homicides and violent crimes rates are down in major cities. "The number of new illegal immigrant families who have crossed the border so far this year already exceeds the entire total from 2015." Again, true over that time frame. But according to the Pew Research illegal immigration has been essentially flat over the last decade. "There’s no way to screen these refugees in order to find out who they are or where they come from." It takes approximately two years to approve a refugee to settle in the US. Most of that time is spent screening the refugee. "America is one of the highest-taxed nations in the world." Many media outlets have poked holes in this one. Only South Korea, Mexico and Chile were less taxed among OECD nations.
Around the world - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan vowed to restructure the military and give it "fresh blood" as emergency rule took hold after last week's attempted coup.
- A U.S. policy institute said it may have located a secret facility used by North Korea in the early stages of building its program to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons. The report by the Institute for Science and International Security said there has always been doubt about whether North Korea has disclosed all of its nuclear facilities. Confirming the existence of secret facilities, it said, would be critical to the success of any future agreement to freeze and dismantle North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
- The Philippines may have won a big victory in international court over China in the South China Sea. But it will still need to negotiate with China to resume development of vital oil and gas reserves off its coast. The Philippines relies overwhelmingly on imports to fuel its fast-growing economy. That reliance will grow further in a few years when the main source of domestic natural gas runs out, so the clock is ticking
Around the country - The White House will revisit a 2015 ban on police forces getting military-grade equipment from the armed forces, according to two police organization directors. Shortly after the recent shooting deaths of police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, President Obama agreed to review each banned item.
- The NBA is moving its 2017 All-Star Game out of Charlotte, North Carolina, in protest of a state law decried as discriminatory against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
- Residents of a small farming community in eastern Colorado have been warned to avoid drinking the town’s water after THC, the psychoactive agent in marijuana, was found in one of its feeder wells. A public works employee in Hugo, a town of about 800 people 90 miles southeast of Denver, detected the chemical and health officials believe it is “marijuana THC-related,” the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook posting.
Around Wall Street - Roger Ailes is officially out as head of Fox News, two weeks after former anchor Gretchen Carlson accused him of sexual harassment. Rupert Murdoch, the 85-year-old chairman of the channel's parent Twenty-First Century Fox, will be the interim replacement.
- "I am proud to be gay. I am proud to be a Republican. But most of all, I am proud to be an American," said Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook, at the Republican convention. Thiel also bankrolled Hulk Hogan's suit against Gawker, which tried to out Thiel as gay in 2007.
- Pokemon GO is available in Japan. It had been delayed to ensure servers would withstand the surge in usage.
Today's reason to live Pylon – Crazy |
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