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Syrian Activists Disagree With United States on Chemical Weapons

With the tension in Syria still raging after months of fighting, many now wonder if Assad will turn to Syrian chemical weapons as a desperate last-ditch attempt to fight off rebels. After meeting with NATO foreign ministers in Brussels, Hillary Clinton said, “Our concerns are that an increasingly desperate Assad regime might turn to chemical […]

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Mitt Romney Cha Cha Slide Tweet – BU Student Goes Viral

Patrick Curran from Boston University posted a tweet that went viral during the presidential foreign policy debate.  We’ll call his tweet, the “Cha Cha Romney Slide”.  Anyway, he had around 124 retweets and tweeted he had become a celebrity.  A little while later he had 15,000 tweets and said, “I think I just became famous”. […]

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Fewer Horses And Bayonets : Obama’s Navy Comment

Obama’s, “Fewer Horses and Bayonets“, comment during the foreign policy debate was quite the blow to Romney.  If you start to see this viral comment from the final presidential debate you can now see where it came from. Obama’s Navy Comment: “You mention the Navy, for example, and the fact that we have fewer ships […]

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Obama’s Optimal Comment Causes a Stir

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart aired a pre-recorded interview with the president and there is a little controversy regarding the attack on 9/11. Obama’s being analyzed for a comment he made regarding the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that left the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans dead.  […]

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Binders Full of Women Trending on Twitter {Romney Binder Comment}

Gov. Mitt Romney’s comment regarding inequalities of woman in the workplace has gone viral.  The face that he said “binders full of women” is quite comical, even though you know he didn’t mean it to be. “We took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to […]

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Rush Limbaugh Birth Control Controversy – Audio Transcript

Rush Limbaugh, an American conservative talk-show host created quite the stir in the media on February 29th, 2012 when he commented on a statement made by Sandra Fluke.  Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law student made a statement to four Democrat members of Congress on February 23, 2012 regarding mandated health coverage fro contraceptives.  Rush Limbaugh […]

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The Budget Explained in Simple English

This simplification of the US budget cut is kind of funny.  You’ve got to love the statement at the top, “I love it when complex things are simplified so that we can all understand”.  Anyway, read this quick little outline of the budget cuts and you’ll be amazed how you look at it when it’s […]