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Controversial Georgia Bar Sign Jokes About Domestic Violence (Video)

Controversial Georgia Bar Sign Jokes About Domestic Violence (Video)

It’s pretty safe to say that a sign placed on the door of a Georgia bar was not put there by someone who has been a victim of domestic violence. Instead, it was placed there by an obviously insensitive jerk who thought it would be a cool and funny thing to do.

A hand-made sign which read, “We like our beer like we like our violence, DOMESTIC,” greeted patrons of the Bar Bar in Savannah, Georgia…

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Sarah Palin's Christmas Greetings Consists Of Hawking Her Book (Video)

Sarah Palin’s Christmas Greetings Consists Of Hawking Her Book (Video)

A scantily clad Sarah Palin seeks to heat up her base as she leaps into the trenches of the mythical conservative battle, “The War on Christmas”.

In a recent episode on the Sarah Palin Channel, Sarah touts her aging tome, “Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas”. Sarah opines in the midst of home-spun homilies of Christmas-past that viewers shouldn’t let “a few angry…

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A Certain Half Term Governor Defends Torture While Criticizing President Obama

A Certain Half Term Governor Defends Torture While Criticizing President Obama

America has waited with bated breath, and Sarah Palin has delivered.

Palin opined on her Facebook page regarding the recent disclosures of torture under the Bush administration. Caribou Barbie does not disappoint, delivering a mind-numbing incoherent rant chock-full of suppositions and her own patented rants regarding President Barack Obama. Palin writes,

“In debauched minds it is fine for our…

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Bachmann: 'Any Normal Person Would Support the Tea Party' (Video)

Bachmann: ‘Any Normal Person Would Support the Tea Party’ (Video)

If any progressive liberals thought that Michele Bachmann would go gently into that good night, we have underestimated the temerity of the “retiring” representative.

Bachmann stated to WorldNetDaily today that “any normal human being” would back the Tea Party. Bachmann, after bragging about her superior intellect in dealing with liberals over the years, stated,

“So the Tea Party I think is a very…

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Glenn Beck: Conservatives And Tea Party Members True Victims Of Discrimination (Video)

Glenn Beck: Conservatives And Tea Party Members True Victims Of Discrimination (Video)

Poor Glenn Beck. He’s a rich and famous white guy, living in America, where rich and famous white guys have it pretty rough.

Or at least according to him they do, especially if those rich and famous white guys also happen to be conservatives, and members of the Tea Party. If you’re black, he doesn’t want to hear your tales of being discriminated against. Because his life is tougher than yours is.

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Ann Coulter: Most Women Who Report Rape Are Just Looking For Attention (Audio)

Ann Coulter: Most Women Who Report Rape Are Just Looking For Attention (Audio)

Ann Coulter has apparently appointed herself as America’s rape expert, judging by the incendiary comments she made during an appearance on conservative talk radio’s The Lars Larson Show last week.

According to Coulter, the majority of rapes really are not legitimate rapes at all, and rape really isn’t such a big problem. The larger problem, if you follow her logic, is that girls just want…

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Michele Bachmann's Christmas Gift Request For President Obama: Bomb Iran! (Video)

Michele Bachmann’s Christmas Gift Request For President Obama: Bomb Iran! (Video)

Someone apparently forgot to remind Michele Bachmann that Christmas is a time of peace, sharing, family and love, and not a time to dispense advice about dropping bombs on a foreign country.

That’s exactly what she did at this year’s annual White House Christmas party, where members of congress gather with the president to share good tidings. Or, a cynic might say they share stories and laughs…

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Sean Hannity Blows A Gasket Over Spending Bill, Says 'Cowardly' Boehner Is 'Full Of It', Cuts Off Karl Rove (Videos)

Sean Hannity Blows A Gasket Over Spending Bill, Says ‘Cowardly’ Boehner Is ‘Full Of It’, Cuts Off Karl Rove (Videos)

It’s always fun to watch conservatives turn on their own when things don’t go their way. It’s especially fun to observe the despicable and arrogant Sean Hannity throw a fit, such as the one he threw on Thursday night.

Not only did Hannity rip House Speaker John Boehner after the House of Representatives passed by a 219-206 vote the $1.1 trillion “Cromnibus” spending billwhich will keep most of…

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Dick Cheney On CIA Torture Report He Didn't Read: It's 'Full Of Crap' (Video)

Dick Cheney On CIA Torture Report He Didn’t Read: It’s ‘Full Of Crap’ (Video)

Dick Cheney reminded Americans once again that he’s a pathological liar, as he deflected and denied any and all allegations of torture made by Fox News host Brett Baier during an exclusive interview on Wednesday.

Cheney contradicted himself several times during the interview, claiming that he knew nothing about specific instances of torture that were in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report…

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Fox News Host: Public Needs To Be More Sensitive To The Police (Video)

Fox News Host: Public Needs To Be More Sensitive To The Police (Video)

On her Justice with Judge Jeanine program, Fox News host Jeanine Pirro took a few potshots at those who suggested that the Michael Brown shooting had something to with racial profiling. And instead, she agreed with the sentiment that the public needs to show more respect to the police and to show them the “respect they deserve.”

Pirro used the results from a Fox News “instapoll” as the basis for…

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Jon Stewart Ridicules Rand Paul's 'High Cigarette Tax Caused Eric Garner's Death' Argument (Video)

Jon Stewart Ridicules Rand Paul’s ‘High Cigarette Tax Caused Eric Garner’s Death’ Argument (Video)

In an episode which focused on the Eric Garner choking death case in New York City, Jon Stewart started off his Thursday night Daily Showwith an apology. It seems that on the previous night, he was wrong when he said that no one would be indicted by a grand jury for the choking death of James Garner by the New York City police department. Someone DID get indicted: The man who filmed the entire…

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'Hell No!' Eric Garner's Widow Impassionately Declines To Accept Police Officer's Apology (Video)

‘Hell No!’ Eric Garner’s Widow Impassionately Declines To Accept Police Officer’s Apology (Video)

As we know, New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo was not indicted by a grand jury for the choking death of Eric Garner, who died on July 17 after Pantaleo placed him in a chokehold during an arrest attempt.

You can see the video of Pantaleo choking Garner in the below video, along with the news report on the tragic incident. He was suspected of illegally selling loose cigarettes when…

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Ferguson Protester's Sign Edited Into Viral Race-Baiting Meme

Ferguson Protester’s Sign Edited Into Viral Race-Baiting Meme

The Mike Brown shooting in Ferguson has prompted a large number of false stories, wrong identities, doctored images, incorrect rumors and facts, and a lot of racial stereotypes being perpetuated. Having been closely following this story since it broke, we can accurately state that the false information is coming from both sides of this very divisive issue.

The latest is an image that has been…

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Pat Robertson To Unemployed Viewer: Give Me Your Money And God Will Find You A Job (Video)

Pat Robertson To Unemployed Viewer: Give Me Your Money And God Will Find You A Job (Video)

Pat Robertson had some astute advice for an unemployed fan of his on his 700 Club program today which basically amounted to, “just keep sending me your money and God will take care of it!”

The fan, who has been unemployed for 6 months and is about to lose those benefits, claims that he has had just 3 interviews despite submitting 100 resumes. And he has “piling bills”, not helped by the fact that…

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Cop-Hating Gun Nut Harasses Officers At DUI Checkpoint, Then Gets Hit By Drunk Driver (Video)

Cop-Hating Gun Nut Harasses Officers At DUI Checkpoint, Then Gets Hit By Drunk Driver (Video)

Sometimes, karma can be a real bitch.

That’s what Texas gun-rights zealot and self-proclaimed “Cop Watcher” Kory Watkins found out over the past weekend after he yelled at cops who were staging a DUI checkpoint in Arlington, Texas, and then later was involved in a horrific crash with a… drunk driver. And though Watkins would later downplay it, the very same police that he is skeptical of helped…

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Jon Stewart Shreds Fox News For Blaming Ferguson Riots On Liberal 'Race Arsonists' (Video)

Jon Stewart Shreds Fox News For Blaming Ferguson Riots On Liberal ‘Race Arsonists’ (Video)

Jon Stewart came back from one of his long vacations to offer his unique brand of insight on the riots and protests in Ferguson which occurred after police officer Darren Wilson was not indicted for blasting unarmed Michael Brown to death in August.

He focused primarily on the reaction by Fox News to the incendiary protests and riots, which of course consisted of placing all the blame on the…

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St. Louis Cops Call Rams Tribute to Michael Brown 'Offensive', Players Should Be 'Fined And Suspended' (Video)

St. Louis Cops Call Rams Tribute to Michael Brown ‘Offensive’, Players Should Be ‘Fined And Suspended’ (Video)

Earlier today, we reported that a few St. Louis Rams players came onto the field before their game against the Oakland Raiders in the Edward Jones Dome and paid tribute to Michael Brown by raising their hands.

That set off a firestorm on social media as fans expressed their disgust with those Rams players, who as best as we can tell were all black. Some of the posts on Twitter and Facebook were…

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