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As James Comey makes the media rounds to promote his new tell-all book, he’s defending his decision to speak out about potentially sensitive subjects even though he’s a witness in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.
In an interview with NPR on Tuesday, the former FBI director acknowledged that prosecutors normally don’t want their witnesses talking publicly if they will have to testify later, but he argued that in his circumstance his testimony is already “locked down.” [Read More]
Although the far-left CNN buried its big news under 15 paragraphs of excuse-making for the latest anti-gay scribblingsthat surfaced on MSNBC anchor Joy Reid’s old blog, what more does anyone need to know than the following: “The Library of Congress … contains the disputed posts and lists them as having been archived on January 12, 2006.”
But-but-but I was told the Wayback machine was hacked in an attempt to frame Anti-Trump Resistance Leader Joy Reid as a homophobe? [Read More]
Drew Cloud is everywhere. The self-described journalist who specializes in student-loan debt has been quoted in major news outlets, including The Washington Post,The Boston Globe, and CNBC, and is a fixture in the smaller, specialized blogosphere of student debt.
He’s always got the new data, featuring irresistible twists [Read More]
Maryland’s largest jurisdiction is poised to create a new policy mandating that all its actions be weighed against how they might affect equity — racial and otherwise — among its roughly 1 million residents.
The Montgomery County Council voted unanimously Tuesday to develop the policy, which mirrors similar efforts underway in Seattle, Takoma Park and Fairfax County. This month, Baltimore City Council member Brandon M. Scott (D), who is running for lieutenant governor, proposed creating a racial equity program and a multimillion-dollar fund to assist efforts to attack institutional racism in that city. [Read More]
Grace Verardo, 3, came home one day from preschool and told her mother: “Someone said Daddy is gross.”
Sarah Verardo spun into action. Her husband’s war injuries were having a broader effect on her children than she had realized. Mike Verardo is a double amputee, but Grace had always known him simply as a “handsome hero.”
“I realized I needed to give them the tools to deal with what I’ve already been dealing with for years — the stares, the questions,” Sarah Verardo, 33, said about her three daughters, who are 3 years old, 2 years old and 9 months old. [Read More]
Kanye West thinks Trump is his ‘brother,’ and he has the MAGA hat to prove it (New York Daily News)
Kanye West and President Trump are clearly huge fans of each other — and full of “dragon energy.”
West showered the American commander-in-chief with praise Wednesday, calling him his brother and proudly displaying his autographed “Make America Great Again” hat.
“You don’t have to agree with trump but the mob can’t make me not love him,” West tweeted. “We are both dragon energy. He is my brother. I love everyone. I don’t agree with everything anyone does. That’s what makes us individuals. And we have the right to independent thought.” [Read More]
Millennials blame baby boomers for making things worse: Poll (The Washington Times)
Millennials blame baby boomers for making things worse for their generation, according to a new poll out Wednesday.
The Axios/Survey Monkey survey found 51 percent of millennials blame baby boomers for making things worse, while 13 percent said they made things better. Boomers seemed evenly spread on the issue with 30 percent saying they supported policies that made things worse, and 32 percent said they made things better. Another 34 percent said they hadn’t done either. [Read More]
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