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Illinois Catholic bishop decrees no Holy Communion, funerals for same-sex couples By Susan Hogan June 23 The bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Springfield, Ill., is calling on priests there to deny Holy Communion and even funeral rites to people in same-sex unions...

deserved to die, apparently.

Pro-Trump protester arrested after rushing stage at controversial ‘Julius Caesar’ production in New York By Amy B Wang June 17 Two right-wing activists interrupted the Friday evening performance of a controversial production of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” in New York’s Central Park...

By Catherine Rampell Opinion writer June 19 The show must not go on. So sayeth some of President Trump’s most ardent fans, who spent the past week and a half attempting to shut down a production of “Julius Caesar” with a Trump-like character in the title role. These Trumpkins —...

For those of you who can't understand what us gun nuts mean when we say "There are no dangerous weapons, only dangerous people," I give you. . . Sr. Leandro Mojena-Peralta. Watch this machete-wielding Fla. homeowner refusing to be a robbery victim By Amber Ferguson...

And their damn texting! Bear kills 16-year-old runner who texted to say he was being chased during trail run in Alaska By Cindy Boren June 19 at 1:27 PM A 16-year-old runner who texted his mother that he was being chased by a bear as he competed in a...

Gunman fires on Alexandria park during GOP baseball practice; lawmaker Scalise among wounded By Peter Hermann, Paul Kane and Amber Phillips June 14 at 9:04 AM A gunman opened fire Wednesday morning on a baseball practice at a park in Alexandria involving Republican members of...

I've given up on the Roughriders. Now I have a new team to support. . . Le Rouge-et-noir!

Congratulation to the new NBA Champions. . . THE WARRIORS!

With the retirement of the current Prime Minister, the majority party has elected as its new leader and soon-to-be Prime Minister an openly gay, half-Indian (father born in Mumbai) politician. In Ireland. We will assume the Cardinal is having a stroke.

Nah, he was a real scientist. With a Ph.D.

That may actually be true. A physicist once told me that the simplest explanation (from a fairly obscure physical point of view) of the phenomenon that all electrons have the exact same charge and mass is that there's only one electron in the universe, and its propagation through...

You probably will. But I think it's pretty clear that the future for traffic is mass transit and driverless vehicles powered by electricity. Like everything else, the transition will be a complicated mess of good ideas, bad ideas, brilliance and stupidity, chicanery, waste, and crime. Like...

RIP, Lt. Richard Collins III, U.S. Army Commissioned 18 May 2017 Died 20 May 2017 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-latest-documents-identify-fatally-stabbed-student/2017/05/21/22b7edf2-3e78-11e7-b29f-f40ffced2ddb_story.html?utm_term=.502faab841e1

Roger Moore, suave actor who held James Bond role the longest, dies at 89...

As fun as it is poking the hypocrites who burst blood vessels over Obama's failure to use the term "radical Islamic terrorism" and are perfectly OK with Trump doing the exact same thing, I thought the speech yesterday was pretty good. Bizarrely, Trump may turn out to be a pretty decent...

Trump isn't like Nixon at all. Nixon was most dangerous and damaging when he was lying (which was pretty much all the time). Trump is most dangerous and damaging when he tells the truth.

Comey documented Trump request to drop Flynn investigation in memo: source By Pierre Thomas Cecilia Vega Adam Kelsey May 16, 2017, 7:16 PM ET James Comey, the recently fired FBI director, was asked by President Donald Trump to end an investigation into the actions of former...

Oregon man carries mother’s severed head into a grocery, stabs a clerk, police say By Derek Hawkins May 16 at 4:51 AM It had been a quiet Mother’s Day afternoon at the Harvest Market Thriftway in Estacada, Ore., until Joshua Lee Webb barged into the...

Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian diplomats The president’s disclosures to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State — an information-sharing arrangement considered so sensitive that details...