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November 2015[edit]

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5Ted Cruz says there is no ‘war on women’ because we don’t have a condom shortage
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4Cruz missile launched: "Well it is also reported that he [sic] was registered as an independent and as a woman; if that's what he [sic] is umm..." So Teddy's either (a) citing material he doesn't believe (and then embellishing on it with the activist bit) or (b) using male pronouns for someone he believes to be female. Lovely.
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3Argentina's conservative opposition has won the election.
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4Trump Denies Mocking New York Times Reporter With Physical Disability
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11Donald Trump officially has the best eyesight of any presidential candidate, hands down, as he managed to make out individual people from over four miles away on 9/11.Do You Believe That? (each person would occupy less than one-fiftieth of one degree in his field of view; under perfect lighting conditions, that would push edge of visibility as a person-colored speck, hardly distinguishable in the surrounding mess)
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3Donald Trump sort of has a stopped clock moment, coming out in opposition to the Pfizer-Allergan merger.
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7Ben Carson mistakenly echoes Trump's false claims about thousands of Americans celebrating 9-11 in New Jersey, but to his credit, he says it is not a reason to blame all American Muslims. He later retracts altogether.
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7Trump tweets some straight-up fabricated crime statistics (an infographic literally created on Stormfront); says of protester "maybe he should have been roughed up"
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7Trump would bring back waterboarding.
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7Trump rally turns into Trump rally
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3Louisiana's foremost politician for "family values" and prostitution loses the governor election to John Bel Edwards.
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8Well, it isn't a literal yellow star... just a metaphoric white crescent.
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7"Innovation, entrepreneurship and business success should be rewarded. But greed for the sake of greed is not something that public policy should support." Bernie Sanders delivered a long-awaited long-awaited speech on his vision of democratic socialism, with a side trip through foreign policy.
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6Despite Donald's lazy shots at Bernie for linking climate change and the rise in terror attacks, the DoD already did so.
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2ROC presidential candidate Eric Chu talks about how to keep the KMT floating in the face of miserably low poll numbers. May the odds be ever in his favor?
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2Lindsey Graham seeks Congressional authorization for use of military force against ISIS.