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Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS), who relentlessly flogged the Federal Marriage Amendment and attended NOM’s hate marches, was defeated in yesterday’s GOP primary. The New York Times reports: Huelskamp, who was elected to Congress in 2010 and quickly earned a reputation for frustrating Republican leaders, was defeated by Roger Marshall, an obstetrician from Great Bend, in the primary for the First …

The American Family Association has launched a petition to Congress to stop the US Navy from naming a ship for Harvey Milk. It reads: “I have learned that Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus is planning to name a military ship after sexual predator and pedophile Harvey Milk. It is incomprehensible to think that our military leadership has descended to …

Tonight Trump spokes-lunactic Katrina Pierson declared on CNN that the son of Khans probably died in Iraq because President Obama and Hillary Clinton had “changed the rules of engagement” for US troops. Seriously. Watch below. Capt. Humayun Khan died on June 8th, 2004 during the presidency of George W. Bush.

Dakota Meyer, Medal Of Honor recipient and current husband to Bristol Palin, this afternoon demanded that Donald Trump apologize to the Khan family. And then Hillary Clinton retweeted that demand. Charles Dudley Warner would be happy.

Irish Central reports: The Catholic Archbishop of Dublin Diarmuid Martin has announced that he will not send trainee priests from his own diocese, the largest in Ireland, to the national seminary at St Patrick’s College, Maynooth. When asked about his decision to send three seminary students from Dublin to the Irish Pontifical College in Rome instead of Maynooth later this …

This, perhaps obviously, is revenge for Ryan’s trolling of Trump with the Constitution photo and for McCain’s comments on the Khan controversy. Via the Washington Post: Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is refusing to back House Speaker Paul D. Ryan in his upcoming primary election, saying in an interview Tuesday that he is “not quite there yet” in endorsing his …

It took the notoriously thin-skinned Donald Trump just two hours to issue a reaction to Obama calling him “unfit to serve as president.” From Trump’s Facebook page: “Obama-Clinton have single-handedly destabilized the Middle East, handed Iraq, Libya and Syria to ISIS, and allowed our personnel to be slaughtered at Benghazi. Then they put Iran on the path to nuclear weapons. …

The Satanic Temple has once again gotten the goat of the right wing with its announcement of a national rollout of “After School Satan” clubs. From the Washington Post: The group plans to introduce its After School Satan Club to public elementary schools, including one in Prince George’s County, petitioning school officials to allow them to open immediately as the …

The Raleigh News & Observer reports: Gov. Pat McCrory on Tuesday called a news conference to announce that the attorney general will not appeal last week’s ruling by three federal judges throwing out the state’s requirement that voters produce photo identification, along with other changes to election law. The governor said the state would appeal the ruling without help from …

When Trump is leading in the polls, he can’t praise them enough. When he’s behind? The Hill reports: Donald Trump cast doubt on general election polls that show him trailing Hillary Clinton, calling those polls “phony.” “I see some great polls — I see one from the Los Angeles Times, just came out, where were ahead by 4 or 5 …