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Donald Trump’s choice of Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate brought a smile to my face. And not for the reason you may think.

The announcement by Donald Trump of Indiana Governor Mike Pence as his running mate had not yet been made official last Thursday, but that didn't stop the hard left from hauling out its familiar and overused rhetoric.

What have we learned, so far, about the Republican National Convention?

When Republicans gathered in Chicago on June 2, 1880, the frontrunner was a familiar face – former President Ulysses S. Grant, who after serving in the White House from 1867 to 1879 had stayed out of politics for four years.

While promoting his latest gun-toting action movie, Matt Damon took time to praise Australia for its gun-restrictive laws and unsuccessful buyback program — while also lamenting that America was not evolved enough to pass gun control measures.

With the Republican National Convention in full swing, Republicans who don’t understand the appeal of Donald Trump might ask, of those Republicans who do: What do you see in this guy?

We support efforts in our states to safely reduce prison populations and the astronomical cost to our taxpayers, while simultaneously lowering crime and recidivism rates.

In an age of 24-hour news where every misstep by a police officer or every overreach by a protester cycles before our eyes again and again and again, it is all too easy to think division is now the order of things.

The failed coup d’état by elements of Turkey’s military signals more repression and chaos in the Middle East.

Sometimes, conventions were unexpectedly settled before they were gaveled in. That was the case when Republicans met in St. Louis in July 1896.

One of the things that fuels racism is numbers. And the safety we find in them.

Don’t “Blue Lives Matter?” How many more cops have to die before politicians and the people unite and announce their full support for the police?

The June 1884 GOP convention in Chicago opened with Republicans badly split.

Political parties haven’t always chosen their presidential candidates through national conventions. Before 1832, caucuses of each party’s members of Congress selected them.

Police officers now tasked with not only keeping delegates safe -- but also each other. And they are especially concerned about protesters who might be carrying firearms outside the security perimeter.

Our society cannot operate — cannot function — when we normalize violence against the very people dedicated and tasked with upholding the rule of law.

Friday night’s failed coup was Turkey’s last hope to stop the Islamization of its government and the degradation of its society.

The 2016 election has been defined so far by immigration, Islamic terror, and economic inequality and the outsider candidacies of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders that brought them to the fore.

The murder of 84 people and wounding of hundreds more in Nice on Thursday is a passing of the torch.

With the exceptions of the military and the police, every major American institution is underwater with the public. The core of American consensus and belief in American ideals is fraying.