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10 More Ways For The Tea Party To Rip Off 4Chan
The Oregon Tea Party came in for a little trouble when they stole a slogan from notorious Internet beehive 4Chan. But why stop there? Here's ten more memes they could steal.
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President Obama is Bringing Us Closer to the Apocalypse
The end times are near.
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The Epitome of A Modern Republican
For all the criticism I direct toward Republicans, I fail to note the high caliber of candidates this party attracts. Let me fix that immediately. I give you Mr. Basil Marceaux..
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WSJ.com - Opinion: Our Divisive President
Barack Obama promised a new era of post-partisanship. In office, he's played racial politics and further split the country along class and party lines.
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CNN Uses Racist Flame Thrower to Weigh in on Race Relations
This is a man who called Obama's Nobel Peace Prize" an affirmative action quota". He defended Rush Limbaugh and the racist "Barack the Magic Negro" song. He also defended President Obama being portrayed as the Joker. But here he is on CNN being asked to weigh in on race relations in the United States when he's part of the problem.
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Infographic: Where Did the Money to Rebuild Iraq Go?
The Department of Defense is unable to account for the use of $8.7 billion of the $9.1 billion it spent on reconstruction in Iraq.
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Elton John: Artists Boycotting Arizona Are "*****"
Despite calls for Elton John to join the Sound Strike, an artist boycott of Arizona over the racial profiling that will be encouraged by SB 1070, the musician went ahead and held his scheduled concert in the controversial state.
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GOP Lawmaker Thinks Islam is a Cult
Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey of Tennessee suggested recently that Islam is more of a "cult" than a religion and therefor not entitled to First Amendment freedom of religion protections.
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10 Essential Midterm Races to Watch in 2010
With 14 weeks until Election Day, 37 of the nation's governorships, 36 Senate seats, and all 435 House seats are at stake. With unemployment over 9 percent, and the country in the midst of a slow and painful recovery, the wind is at the backs of Republicans. Here are 10 key races that capture the themes of the midterm elections.
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The Insanity of the Insanity Defense
On March 11, 2003 7:00 p.m., a patrol officer responding to a separate domestic violence call was flagged down by a woman and a man, who were obviously frantic. The woman, Magdalena Alvarez and the man, Rubio's half brother Jose Luis Rubio were screaming in Spanish, "The babies are dead," and "They have no heads!"
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Politicians Honored in 2010's "Most Crooked Candidates"
The group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington recently unveiled its list of this election cycle's most crooked candidates.
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The reality is, time has run out, We have to do it now.
“With all due respect,” said Representative James P. McGovern, Democrat of Massachusetts, “I think we need to do more nation-building here at home.”
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The Rattington Post: An Armed Society is a Polite Society
Research, as well as common sense (one of the many virtues absent in most liberals) show that an armed society is indeed a polite as well as safer society.
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Stats Don't Lie: The American Middle Class Is Dying
Once the United States had the largest and most prosperous middle class in the history of the world, but that's ending at a blinding pace. The American middle class is being systematically wiped out of existence. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer here at a historically unprecedented rate.
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Sen. Franken: Stop the Corporate Takeover of the Media
Sen. Al Franken (D.-Minn.) told more than 2,000 bloggers and organizers attending the Netroots Nation conference in Las Vegas on July 24, 2010, that our media system is at risk everywhere we turn - from our free speech online to the growing power of companies who own a massive number of media outlets.
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Latest Vatican document is final straw for women
The Vatican must no longer be granted immunity from equality legislation, in the name of liberty, equality, and even the Gospel.
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Biden: in Afghanistan, We can't win.
The Unwinnable War II: Didn't We Know All This Already?
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Are Jedi Knights Libertarian or Socialist?
Most political journalists are also nerds, so it was probably only a matter of time until someone started debating the politics of Star Wars. According to 2001 census reports from the English-speaking world, England and Wales led the world in absolute terms, with over 390,000 (0.8%) Jedis listed, but are they more libertarian or socialist ?
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The politics of government bashing
Rep. Joe Barton's infamous apology to BP still roils not because it was a slip of the tongue but because it wasn't — or how the right-wing's anti-regulatory fervor could prove the GOP's Achilles hell in November
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