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Republican North-South Split on Taxes Previews Debt Talks

With President Barack Obama and Congress poised to clash over spending cuts and raising the $16.4 trillion federal debt limit, reaching a deal may be complicated by a North-South divide among Republicans made wider by the 2012 elections.

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FREEDOM ALERT: There have been 695 gun deaths in the United States since the Newtown shooting less than a month ago. - LOLGOP

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The World is a Safer Place Without Saddam

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KABLOOEY!

Vice President Joe Biden butted heads with the powerful National Rifle Association on Thursday in his drive to reduce U.S. gun violence, drawing complaints from the lobby group that the White House is trying to limit constitutionally protected gun rights.

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I used to want to be pro-life but then I realized I didn’t like guns, torture and war enough. – LOLGOP

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Click here for the help you deserve

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Republican Shenanigans

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Great minds think alike. Unfortunately, so do many apocalyptic, paranoid lunatics. - LOLGOP

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Guns Good. Obamacare Bad. Shoot Em Up.

Former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.), a staunch opponent of the Affordable Care Act, suggested people “defy and or break the law and engage in civil disobedience” in response to Obamacare restrictions or new gun laws.

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Rock the Voter News

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Travels With an Alien

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There’s a provision in the Constitution that covers hoarding weapons to wage war against the United States. It’s called treason. – LOLGOP

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Window Dressing?

Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has appointed women to a fifth of the seats in the Shura Council, which advises the government on new legislation, state media said on Friday.
The king said in 2011 that women would join the unelected 150-member body, which functions like a parliament but without formal powers. He did not then specify how many would serve.

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“The White House announced that the theme for President Obama’s inauguration will be ‘Faith in America’s Future.’ Which is proof that no one in the White House has ever seen ‘Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.’” –Jimmy Fallon

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Biz/Tech News

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Update on Secret Service Scandal

Two drug enforcement agents “facilitated a sexual encounter” between a prostitute and a Secret Service agent before an international summit in Colombia last April, NBC News reported on Thursday, citing a Justice Department investigation.

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