2016 // NPR’s Cokie Roberts: Some Democrats “nervously beginning to whisper” about replacing Hillary with another candidate. http://cvote.it/2cAoX4Q
2016 // The Secret Service might have broken protocol by not taking Hillary Clinton to an emergency room. Instead Hillary had the car take a detour to daughter Chelsea Clinton’s apartment — rather peculiar for a patient with pneumonia to visit a home with a baby under three months old. But the detour was apparently to keep details of her medical treatment under wraps. http://cvote.it/2cArhso
2016 // Trump stayed quiet for 24 hours, as Hillary Clinton waded through the most perilous stretch of her campaign to date. By holding his tongue, Trump allowed amateur footage of his foe stumbling after falling ill to play over and over on TV without his commentary. This new discipline coincides with the promotion of Kellyanne Conway as campaign manager. http://cvote.it/2cAyHvQ
LGBT // Students and parents from Duluth, Minnesota, complain a transgender student was allowed to enter the girls’ locker room and would dance “in a sexually explicit manner.” http://cvote.it/2cAnDP7
LGBT // After the NCAA announced it would play no championship games in North Carolina because the state’s bathroom bill, the state’s GOP punched back: “This is so absurd it’s almost comical. I look forward to NCAA merging all men’s & women’s teams as singular, unified, unisex teams.” http://cvote.it/2cAA25J
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY // U.S. Bishops to government: End legal standoff with the Little Sisters. http://cvote.it/2cAwyAo
PERSECUTED // The Knights of Columbus head: The next U.S. president must aid persecuted Christians. http://cvote.it/2cAxd4D
ON THIS DAY // 1814 – Francis Scott Key pens a poem which is later set to music and in 1931 becomes America’s national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner.” http://cvote.it/2cAm1F4
SAINT // The Saint of the day – http://cvote.it/Daily-Saint
DAILY READINGS // Today’s readings – http://cvote.it/Daily-Readings
FUNNY //