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South Carolina Senator Talks Civil War To Preserve “Freedom”

Shit, we forgot. Is this 1860 or 2013? South Carolina state senator Lee Bright (ironic?) on how he is willing to “lay down his life” for liberty.

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Conservative Pundit Admits That Republicans Lie To Each Other, Others

Liberal talk show host Chris Hayes asked conservative pundit Ben Domenech on when he decided that he would stop being lied to by conservative leadership. His response? It’s not just grassroots conservative organizations that GOP big wigs intentionally mislead–it’s each other. But isn’t this the nature of politics in general?

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President Obama Reminds Republicans Why Obamacare “Happened”

By focusing–and rightly so–so much on the shitty website, we seem to have forgotten the larger, underlying reasons why we’re making the transition in the first place. Here, Obama reminds us.

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University Of Alabama’s Racist Sororities

In the thick of the Civil Rights Movement, the southern college finally opened its doors to African Americans in 1963. But just because they opened a door doesn’t mean they closed an anachronistic ideology; just this past September, two sororities rejected an African American student because of her race.

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Bill Nye’s Open Letter To Barack Obama

According to your favorite science guy, NASA is America’s best and most beloved brand. And he’s got a point: while founded in a Cold War context, it’s scientific inquiry and exploration for the sake of innovation and growth–not overt, undemocratic dominance. And for those reasons, it needs more funding.

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