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Matt's talking about what to expect -- large crowds, no portajohns, uncooperative DC officials, etc. -- must hear, for those attending next week!

It was the the party that Donald Trump was branded too uncool to be invited to be to – even at his own political convention. About two thousand powerful Ohio Republicans gathered at Cleveland's storied Rock and Roll Hall of fame and delivered the ultimate snub to the man widely seen as persona non grata. The most powerful Republican in the state, Governor John Kasich, threw the bash for a group he called 'friends': fellow party elder statesman, delegates, party workers and the future stars of the Grand Old Party. One senior Republican said there was an obvious reason why...

Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has released a new book focused, in part, on "improving" the Constitution through amending the Second Amendment--by making the rights protected therein applicable only to a militia instead of the citizenry at large. Stevens' book is titled Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution. As written, the text of the Second Amendment is: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed." According to Bloomberg Businessweek, Stevens believes recent court decisions--notably District...