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Vice President Newt Gingrich?

Gingrich, the meanest and most cynical Republican since Dick Cheney, is running neck-and-neck with Mitt Romney in Florida.

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Shit students can't say (about Israeli apartheid and the Gaza massacre)

Some of these Shit So-and-So Says videos aren't meant to be funny.

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Clay Shirky explains why SOPA and PIPA must be stopped

Kind of makes you want to black out your Twitter feed, eh?

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Washington state one vote away from marriage equality, the Stranger calculates

Within the next few months, Washington could become the seventh U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage.

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Sacré bleu! Mitt Romney speaks—gasp—French?

The latest attack ad from U.S. Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich details a startling new fact about front-runner Mitt Romney.

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Justin Trudeau loses his mustache

For some Grits, the highlight of their convention was seeing the MP for Papineau have some of his facial hair shaved off.

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Australian cabinet minister's speech plagiarizes Michael Douglas movie

Australian infrastructure minister Anthony Albanese has been caught lifting lines from the 1995 film The American President.

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Change at the CRTC: Weekly update from OpenMedia.ca

This week's video update features change at the top of the CRTC, "online spying" legislation, and the "cellphone squeeze".

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Stephen Harper celebrates Canada's gruesome seal slaughter

Prime Minister Stephen Harper deemed fit to hold a media event in Ottawa in order to trumpet his Conservative government's support for the bloody massacre known as the Canadian seal hunt.

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Washington state poised to legalize gay marriage; pastor calls for Starbucks boycott

Will Washington state become the seventh American state to permit gay and lesbian nuptials?

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