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Jonah Goldberg is kind of a dick about other people’s misfortunes

Like you, leading conservative thinking person and re-interpreter of word meanings, Jonah Goldberg, enjoys a good belly laugh, a guffaw, a hoot and a holler, a shit and a giggle. And being the jolly...

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Toronto city council to limit executive powers of crack-smoking mayor

Toronto’s crack-smoking mayor, Rob Ford, faced a new political challenge on Friday from city councillors seeking to limit his powers after his latest obscene outburst. Ford, under fire after admitting...

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Suspected French cannibal ‘ate victim’s heart and tongue’ with beans

A suspected cannibal killed a 90-year-old in a sleepy southern French village then pulled his heart and tongue out with the apparent intention of eating them with white beans, sources close to the case...

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Watchdog set to finalize plan to rid Syria of chemical weapons

The world’s chemical watchdog met Friday to agree a final roadmap for ridding Syria of its arsenal by mid-2014, despite the setback of Albania refusing for the weapons to be destroyed on its soil....

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JPMorgan trader refuses to be extradited to U.S. over ‘London Whale’ fraud...

A former JPMorgan bank trader arrested in Spain refused Friday to be extradited to the United States where he faces criminal charges in the massive “London Whale” fraud scandal. Spanish national Javier...

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Pat Buchanan upset by Pope Francis: He is losing the culture war

Pope Francis is bordering on moral relativism by refusing to berate atheists and condemn LGBT individuals, according to conservative columnist Pat Buchanan. Writing at Townhall on Friday, Buchanan said...

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Man avoids prison for raping teen, but attorney laments he can’t drink beer...

An Alabama man convicted of raping a teenage girl will avoid prison after a judge sentenced him to a rehabilitation program for nonviolent offenders and probation. Austin Smith Clem, 25, was found...

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Louisiana official wants to take library’s money to build new jail: ‘They’re...

Voters in one Louisiana parish will decide Saturday whether to devote funding for their library to a new jail. Lafourche Parish Council Lindel Toups pushed the measure because he disapproves of some of...

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‘Buzzkill of science’ Neil deGrasse Tyson explains why zombies are purely...

Have no fear of the coming zombie apocalypse, astrophysicist and “buzzkill of science” Neil deGrasse Tyson told America on Thursday night’s The Daily Show. It’s not happening. Zombies apparently defy...

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Democrats threaten ‘nuclear option’ over Republicans’ war on women Obama...

Democrats in the Senate fumed this week as Republicans blocked another of President Barack Obama’s nominees to sit on a federal appeals court, the third woman in a series of legislative obstructions....

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‘Anonymous’ hacker receives 10 years in prison

A computer programmer linked to the online hacktivist group Anonymous who pleaded guilty to hacking the intelligence firm Stratfor was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison, prosecutors said. Jeremy...

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Facebook claims new ad policy is ‘unchanged’

Facebook said Friday that ads on the social network featuring user endorsements and pictures were nothing new, and that members remain in control of their own content and images. The company’s chief...

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U.S. State Department offering $10 million reward for Benghazi attackers

The US State Department is offering a $10 million reward to track down anyone behind last year’s brutal attack on a US mission in Libya, in which the ambassador was among four Americans killed. “Since...

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Former Pink Floyd vocalist charged with sexually abusing 12-year-old girl

Roy Harper, who sang lead vocal on Pink Floyd’s 1975 classic “Have a Cigar” and is widely acknowledged as an influence on Led Zeppelin, has been charged with nine counts of sexual assault on a...

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San Francisco transforms into Gotham City to allow 5-year-old leukemia...

A 5-year-old boy with cancer became a superhero for a day Friday, as San Francisco transformed itself into Gotham City and thousands turned out to see the Batkid fly to the rescue. Miles Scott, who was...

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New York Police Department concerned violent ‘Knockout’ game spreading via...

The New York Police Department is investigating a series of unprovoked recent beatings as possible hate crimes, as they are increasingly occurring in predominantly Jewish neighborhoods. According to...

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Attorney General worried about proliferation of 3-D printed weaponry if...

The 25-year-old ban on firearms that can’t be detected by metal detectors is set to expire in December, and Attorney General Eric Holder is concerned that the 3-D printing technology could lead to a...

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Canadians ‘uncomfortable’ with spotlight brought by Toronto Mayor Rob Ford

While Rob Ford’s antics are the focus of a spiraling scandal gripping Toronto, the infamy of his misdeeds has only been made possible by the phalanx of journalists covering his every move. Reporters,...

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MSNBC suspends Alec Baldwin’s ‘Up Late’ for 2 weeks for anti-LGBT slur

Variety reports that MSNBC has suspended Alec Baldwin’s “Up Late” program for two weeks after an incident in which the host and actor called a man filming his family a “c**ksucking f*g.” Baldwin...

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Maher: If Palin thinks the Pope is too liberal, ‘wait until she sees what...

On Real Time tonight, Bill Maher “documented” the Twitter war between Sarah Palin and Pope Francis. Earlier this week, Palin attacked the Pope, saying “he’s had some statements that sound to me kind of...

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