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3 hours ago

I Cannot F*cking Believe It!' Jon Stewart Loses It on Democratic Senators Who Caved to Republicans

Eight Democratic and Independent senators voted with Republicans to end the government shutdown in exchange for a promise to consider healthcare subsidies later.
fromVulture
4 days ago

Death by Lightning Recap: Men Like Us

The greatest virtue of the Steven Spielberg biopic Lincoln, which the playwright Tony Kushner adapted from Doris Kearns Goodwin's book Team of Rivals, is that it's about the fundamental lack of virtue that comes with being president. For as much as Abraham Lincoln is flattened out into "Honest Abe," the universal choice for the greatest of all American presidents, his lionization papers over the horse-trading
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