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Game of Thrones IS REAL LIFE.

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It ok be, GOPers. You no cry.  

As a life-long pinko-commie-liberal, I’ve had a lot of heartache in my day. I stayed up all night long as a lowly 11 year old in 2000 waiting for Al Gore to be declared president. I latched on to the Ent and the Hair in 2004 hoping for some relief from George W. Bush. None of that happened.

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A political cartoon depicting Preston Brooks's...

I took a class about political polarization last semester. The entire semester is summed up as “We’re getting more and more polarized an will hit an irreversible, cataclysmic point sometime soon.”

I just kept wanted to say: “Yeah, but when was the last time a member of one party caned a member of the opposite party?”

“We consider the act good in conception, better in execution, and best of all in consequences. These vulgar abolitionists in the Senate must be lashed into submission.”

Preston Brooks 2012

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Senator John McCain goes back to actually being somewhat of a “maverick”?

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Obama A One-Term President? The graph above represents audience reaction at the CNN Republican Debate on Monday evening. Audience reaction dropped sharply from positive to negative after Michelle Bachmann claimed President Obama would be a one-term President. [Photo: CNN]

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 Stunning Animated Time-Lapse Map of Red-Blue America 1920-2008

Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.
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Alabama is going to start checking students to see if they’re legal immigrants. It’s sort of reminiscent of that law in Arizona that’s being challenged in court, only this one is a little more invasive. Alabama’s law would require all businesses to check the status of their workers and register…