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Comey was fired for refusing to pledge personal loyalty to Trump

Michael S. Schmidt reports at NYT: Only seven days after Donald J. Trump was sworn in as president, James B. Comey has told associates, the F.B.I. director was summoned to…

Gay high school player wins courage award

Jim Buzinski reports in Outsports: My-King Johnson, a Phoenix-area high school football player, was honored by the Arizona Republic with its Courage Award. Johnson, who will play this fall at…

Marriage equality gets its own stamp in Canada

CTV News reports: TORONTO — The latest Canada Post stamp commemorating Canada’s 150th birthday pays tribute to the fact that same-sex couples have the right to get married in this…

“Pray with me, Henry.”

The leftists who were so upset with Hillary Clinton for being friendly with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger must be comforted to see him visiting Mr. Trump in the…

Trump fires the FBI director who is investigating him

On Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey: We have traversed similar territory before. I was 17 and 18 when the Nixon administration was coming apart. I remember where I…

Stephen Fry

Irish Police Investigate Stephen Fry for Blasphemy

Liam Stack and Ed O’Loughlin report at NYT: The British actor Stephen Fry is known as many things: a witty television presenter, a roguish Twitter personality and an outspoken atheist….

Moonlight actors win MTV award for Best Kiss

https://youtu.be/LfYwzgDe-VQ Actors Ashton Sanders and Jharrel Jerome have won the MTV Movie & TV award for Best Kiss for the beach scene from the Oscar winning movie Moonlight. The Fader…

House Democrats sing “Na na na na, hey hey hey, goodbye” to Republicans

https://youtu.be/VXxmnWdKTNI In the above video from the House floor, once Wolf Blitzer shuts up, you can hear Democrats taunt Republicans with a portion of the 1960s Steam song, “Na na…

Orange meltdown

https://youtu.be/e6T0AqG7_BI CBS News Correspondent John Dickerson pressed Trump on his baseless claim that President Obama wiretapped Trump Tower, and Trump abruptly cut off the interview. Watch this brief display of…

New Data on DC LGBTQ Youth

David Mariner of The DC Center reports: Results from the 2015 District of Columbia Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) released today by the Office of the State Superintendent of Education…