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Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories President Trump on Sunday pivoted away from his strident assessment of Islam as a religion of hatred.  Now that he’s president, Donald Trump has changed his tune.   Talk about a power nap.

Posted at 3:00 pm on May 20, 2017 by streiff Three days ago, Trey Gowdy, who is hair (hahaha) apparent to succeed Jason Chaffetz as chair of the House oversight committee, appeared on Fox News’s “The Story” with Martha McCallum. I’m taking the transcript from Daily Caller but you really need to watch the video: Gowdy is overly kind to Comey in his interview about his reasoning.

Posted at 4:30 pm on May 20, 2017 by Susan Wright Our kids are ALWAYS our kids, and when somebody tries to hurt our kids, we react. I guess FBI directors are no different. Former FBI Director James Comey’s dad has his back, and whether you side with Comey or not, that’s still pretty cool. The elder Comey had some words for President Trump and how Trump has been treating his kid. That’s fair. And accurate. Trump has launched all-out war on Comey, and if the memos C

Posted at 7:00 pm on May 20, 2017 by Susan Wright One of President Trump’s more disturbing associations is with Roger Stone, the former campaign adviser who was quickly shuttled off when his creepy, obscene nature made him a liability that even Trump couldn’t find value in. No matter what, however, Stone has remained a steadfast supporter of Trump, and has insisted that the two of them remain in contact, with the president often reaching out to him to hear his unvarnished opinion. Stone has watched the Trump train from afar, giving most of his commentary online (since

Posted at 7:32 pm on May 20, 2017 by streiff When I first read this Reuters headline tweeted by the Most Slappable Face On the InternetTM I was sure there was some kind of a typo. For months the whole anti-Trump coalition of NeverTrumpers and progressives have been railing on Donald Trump and his administration because it is alleged they don’t follow ethics rules closely enough. But no. Now they are accused of following them too closely. I don’t even know what the sourcing on this means.

Posted at 8:42 pm on May 20, 2017 by streiff Yesterday I posted on TIME magazine’s rather blatant ripoff of MAD magazine’s cover art in which the White House is morphed into the Kremlin (actually, it is St. Basil’s Cathedral which is not part of the Kremlin, but close enough for everyone to get the message.) Banal, unimaginative, and derivative are one thing. CNN has crossed into the blindingly stupid.

White nationalist Richard Spencer lost his gym membership this week after being approached by a Georgetown University professor.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson teased photos from this week's episode of "Saturday Night Live" which shows him behind a podium labeled "The Rock Johnson 2020." Johnson is hosting the season finale of the show this Saturday, after he announced last week that there is a "real possibility" he would run for president in the future.  The 45-year-old pro wrestler-turned-actor, has long flirted with a political bid.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez on Friday called President Trump the "most dangerous president" in U.S. history and said that the commander in chief "has to go."

“Here’s one big thing we agree on. The Los Angeles Times.

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Alec Baldwin returned to “Saturday Night Live” for the show's season finale this week, opening the show as President Trump performing Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" with White House advisers Kellyanne Conway, Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka Trump. The open of the episode starts with Baldwin's Trump at the piano singing "Hallelujah" alone.