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On Christmas Traditions/The War On Christmas
Lo, the splendor of well adorned evergreens, the bountiful largesse beneath the tree and the yule log aflame warming the hearts and souls of all around. ‘Tis the season (to be jolly (fa la la la la la...
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Russian Parliament Approves Anti-U.S. Adoption Bill
Recently America passed a piece of legislation called the Magnitsky Act. Its namesake, Sergei Magnitsky, blew the whistle on large scale tax fraud perpetrated by Russian government officials. For his...
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Phil Dawson Makes Pro Bowl After 14 Seasons
Phil Dawson. Just go back and re-read that name. Bask in it. I’ll wait a quick sec. Beautiful, let’s move on. If you’re not from Cleveland, first of all you’re an idiot and need to have a chat with...
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Orion Mim’s Charity Fight At Gleason’s Boxing Gym
9 Ironmans 24 70.3s 12 Olympic distance triathlons 9 marathons Just typing that list makes me feel like the laziest slouch that’s ever walked the earth. I’ll be honest, I didn’t even type it. I copied...
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Fiscal Cliff Failure And Other Fun Cliffs To Look Forward To
For all intents and purposes the fiscal cliff deal that was reached in the baby blue eyed hours of the new year accomplished close to nothing. A paltry kick of the can at best, it serves as a stop gap...
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Video Games And Violence
In keeping with the dog and pony show spirit of American political discourse and decision making, Vice President Biden recently met with video game industry representatives to chat about violent video...
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The Epic Manti Te’o Girlfriend Hoax [Update]
Photo (c) Gary A Vasquez, USA Today Sports Like most red blooded Americans, I loathe Notre Dame football with a fire that burns with the heat of a thousand suns. But, ya know, the whole...
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The Inauguration, God & Politics
First, the invocation. …I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation, or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding...
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Caleb Moore Dies From Injuries Sustained At X Games
Caleb Moore at the X-Games This was supposed to be an article about how much I loathe the X Games. About the deep seated disdain of the unironic mountain hipsters who flock to Aspen for their...
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Ray Lewis’ First Career Sack Was On Jim Harbaugh
Shortly after the Browns left Cleveland and shortly before Ray Lewis was arrested on a murder charge, the Ravens linebacker notched his first sack. Normally these sorts of things are memorable to the...
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North Korea’s Awesomely Bizarre Missle Threat Against U.S.
If there’s one thing North Korea does well, aside from suppressing freedom, gulags and food shortages, it’s propaganda. Given that, the incredibly ironically named, Democratic People’s Republic of...
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The War On Drugs, Fake Pot And Portuguese Policy
Few things better illustrate the utter ridiculousness and paramount failure of the American War on Drugs than the advent of synthetic marijuana. Well, either that or the trillion or so dollar price...
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Charity Fight At Gleason’s Gym Featuring Orion Mims
Orion Mims doesn’t do things the easy way. He actually doesn’t seem to do anything easy given his athletic feats. That extends to his philanthropic work. Can’t just cut a check and take a photo op...
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A Meteor Hit Russia And Bruce Willis Did Nothing
Chelyabinsk, Russia. My old stomping ground* doing it Armageddon style (*not really). Well, Armageddon in the sense that a meteor hit it, which in the Michel Bay movie was pre-bang to the larger Texas...
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On The Distrust Of Government
For better or worse Americans continue to not trust politicians and the government very much. Perhaps because some of the sleeping have awoken and started to pay a thimble’s worth of attention....
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Rand Paul Returns Money To Treasury, Remains Great At Getting Publicity
Just as last year and in what amounts to largely just free publicity, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul mocked up one of those big ol’ lottery style checks which he’ll send to the Treasury. A check for his...
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White House Cancels Tours, Keeps Calligraphers
“This is really what the White House is all about. It’s the “People’s House.” It’s a place that is steeped in history, but it’s also a place where everyone should feel welcome. And that’s why my...
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Kim Jung Un Lied To Rodman, Would ‘Do War’
North Korea is a joke. A particularly malnourished one as it were. I mean who else, on the planet Earth, would not only welcome Dennis Rodman into their country but actually touch Dennis Rodman?...
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Tax Relief For Hurricane Victims In Select NY & NJ Counties
Post Hurricane Sandy: Ortley Beach, Ocean County N.J., Nov. 10. (Tim Larsen/NJ Governor’s Office) Superstorm or hurricane, call it what you want. Either way, what barreled down on the northeast this...
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Drones: America’s Sweethearts
Predator drone. Sexy. It’s the kind of unrequited love that makes you cast logic aside. The sort that has you making the silliest of decisions. Ones you never thought possible. The type that wraps you...
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The Slacktivism Of The Equal Sign
The more appropriate version of your profile pic. Slacktivism (slaktəˌvizəm) noun Actions performed via the Internet in support of a political or social cause but regarded as requiring little time or...
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Dr. Kermit Gosnell And The Trial No One Is Covering
Dr. Kermit Gosnell According to Dr. Daniel Conway, a Philadelphia neonatologist, babies with a gestational age of 27 to 30 weeks have an 85 percent chance of survival, and a low risk of serious...
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World’s First 3D Gun Successfully Fired Because America
With a 3D printer you can be as cool as this guy… (from Forbes) It’s here. Finally. The day we’ve all been waiting for. By ‘we’ I more or less mean 2nd amendment enthusiast. Oh, you (very selective)...
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No Political Group Should Be Tax Exempt
Let’s get a few things out of the way right quick. I, like you, think the IRS is in the wrong here for their recent targeting of conservative groups. I, like you, thought this was wrong when it was...
View ArticleFox Anchor Can’t Fathom Why A Muslim Wrote A Book About Jesus
I want to clarify, you’re a Muslim, so why did you write a book about the founder of Christianity? ~Lauren Green to Reza Aslan And so started the greatest interview Fox has ever aired (online). Ever....
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