New Chief of Staff Reins in White House Aides-and Trump's Tweets  —  Casual walk-ins to Oval Office one of the first things to go  —  Retired Marine general tells his staff: country first  —  On his fifth day on the job as Donald Trump's new chief of staff, John Kelly gathered …

** Long Post, TW for Sexual Harassment**  —  Fox News just suspended Eric Bolling pending allegations that he sent photos of his genitalia to female colleagues.  My only surprise is that it took this long for people to come forward about Bolling's behavior, which has been wildly inappropriate for years.

We're Witnessing A Slow-Rolling Coup  —  From the moment Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election, a plan was hatched to blame Russia for her historically epic loss and use it to hamstring Donald Trump's presidency.  —  Always a hive-mind, Democrats in and out of the media could be counted …

McConnell to consider bipartisan plan to pay health insurers  —  A week after an attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act failed, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says he'd consider a bipartisan effort to continue payments to insurers to avert a costly rattling of health insurance markets.

The Policies of White Resentment  —  White resentment put Donald Trump in the White House.  And there is every indication that it will keep him there, especially as he continues to transform that seething, irrational fear about an increasingly diverse America into policies that feed his supporters' worst racial anxieties.

Israel moves to close Al Jazeera, ban its journalists  —  Request made by the country's communication minister targets both the network's Arabic and English channels.  —  Israel is moving forward to revoke media credentials of Al Jazeera journalists and close the network's office in Jerusalem …

Satanist delivers historic invocation, hails Satan at Colorado council meeting (VIDEO) … In a move that both attracted and scared away attendees from a Colorado council meeting, a Satanist delivered the invocation Wednesday.  Those opposed gathered outside while Andrew Vodopich became …

Exclusive: Here's The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google [Updated]  —  Update 7:25pm ET: Google's new Vice President of Diversity, Integrity & Governance Danielle Brown has issued her own memo to Google employees in response to the now-viral memo, “Google's Ideological Echo Chamber.”

Hillary Wants to Preach  —  Hillary Clinton wants to preach.  That's what she told Bill Shillady, her long-time pastor, at a recent photo shoot for his new book about the daily devotionals he sent her during the 2016 campaign.  Scattered bits of reporting suggest that ministry has always …

Paul Ryan embarrassed by constituents at fake town hall  —  House Speaker Paul Ryan is not what one would call “well-liked” these days.  —  As Shareblue's Kaili Joy Gray put it, Ryan is “shockingly unpopular, even for Paul Ryan.”  —  A recent Bloomberg poll showed that only 34 percent …

Bobby Sticks It to Trump  —  WASHINGTON — As we contemplate crime and punishment in the Trump circle, it should be noted that our Russia-besotted president does share some traits with Dostoyevsky's spiraling protagonist, Rodion Raskolnikov.  —  Both men are naifs who arrive and think they have the right to transgress.