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35 Photos Of Stretching Olympians
Sports Buzz Pretty photos of incredibly fit people, many of them shirtless. From the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Media Summit in Dallas, Texas.
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Lawmaker Throws Tear Gas In South Korean Parliament
Culture Buzz Since no one was hurt, this is pretty hilarious. An opposition party member tossed tear gas powder into the Speaker's face to try and prevent the ratification of a trade agreement between the United States and South Korea. The treaty was eventually ratified. Send in Pike!
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Who’s Hotter: Amanda Knox Or Casey Anthony?
Celebrity Buzz You know you were thinking it. Foxy Knoxy vs. Racy Casey…which accused murderess would you rather pervert the justice system with? Take our poll at the bottom and settle the raging debate! These are the kinds of arguments they have in hell.
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Image: Man Robs Bank To Get Health Care In Jail
Richard James Verone robbed a North Carolina bank for $1 to get health care in prison. The poor guy claimed that he had a gun, handed the teller a note demanding the dollar and then sat down and waited for police to arrive. (via abcnews.go.com)
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Video: President Obama Announces The Death Of Osama Bin Laden
President Obama announces from the White House that, at his order, Osama Bin Laden has been killed. This is a turning point in American history that will be remembered for generations to come.
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Image: The Drastic Reduction Of Native American Lands Over Time
From 1784 to present day, Native Americans have lost a lot of land due to colonization and coercion. Straight statistics can sometime go over one's head, so here is a visual representation of what little land Native Americans own now.
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Video: Time Lapse Video Of The Tsunami Hitting California
The tsunami which devastated Japan reached the shores of the United States this afternoon, thankfully in a much weakened form. Here is time lapse footage a six-foot surge hitting Santa Cruz. Fortunately, nothing more serious than damaged boats have been reported.
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Image: The United States of Shame
A graphic of every state and what they each ranked dead last in. I got mad hometown pride for my gonorrhea-ridden place of birth.
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Image: Food Map of the United States
A map showing what food best represents each state, relying strictly on stereotype rather than any cartographic surveying. To be fair, Utah does love green Jell-o.
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Image: United States of Autocomplete
I'd would have thought Idaho would be “potato”. And maybe “California knows how to party”?
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Massive Wood-Carved Declaration of Independence
Culture Buzz An 81-year-old Navy veteran, over the course of 10 years, carved a word-for-word recreation the Declaration of Independence out of dark walnut wood. Charlie Kested lives in Johnstown, NY. He is a national treasure with many, many splinters. Happy Veteran's Day!
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Image: Racist Passport Rejection Letter
The U.S. Department of State is unabashedly discriminatory in this passport rejection letter. I wonder if people with beards get letters that say “The photographs you submitted cannot be used because the image is too terrorist-y.”
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Link: Official: US Will Stand with Israel - Political Punch
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Power, pop, and probings from ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper. I'm told there won't be any daylight between the US and Israel in the aftermath of the incident on the flotilla yesterday, which resulted in the deaths of 10 activists.
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Image: The New 50 States
What the U.S. might look like if we redrew state lines to make the population of each state roughly equal, and gave the new states charming names. I grew up in Great Basin, but I lived in Coronado before coming to New York (which no longer includes Long Island or upstate).
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Liberal Sources on “United States”
Left-wing blogs and news sites are talking about about “united states.” We’re tracking the latest headlines on this topic and update this page with links as they come in.
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Conservative Sources on “United States”
Right-wing blogs and news sites are talking about about “united states.” We’re tracking the latest headlines on this topic and update this page with links as they come in.
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Obama: ‘By August 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end.’
We track the battle between left-wing and right-wing sites on important news topics. At 6:38pm on February 27, 2009. we detected breaking news about “Obama: ‘By August 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end.’”. This page shows the headlines about “Obama: ‘By August 31, 2010, our combat mission in Iraq will end.’” from both sides.
