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Liz Cheney: Stop 'political' investigation of torture and focus more on Benghazi

Fox News contributor Liz Cheney on Sunday argued that a United States Senate report on Bush-era torture was "political" and that lawmakers should spend more time investigating President Barack Obama's role in failing to prevent terrorist attacks in Benghazi.

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Georgia cop pulls gun on black children because building a tree house is 'hazardous'

Police in Georgia are investigating reports that officers pulled a gun on African-American children who were building a tree house in their neighborhood.

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Megyn Kelly and Dana Loesch dismiss gender pay gap as 'myth' and 'meme'

Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly and conservative talk radio host Dana Loesch took a moment Friday night on "The Kelly File" to dismiss concerns that women might have over getting paid less than their male counterparts for the same work.

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Bill Maher rips Walmart: 'How about giving your employees a raise, you deluded nitwit?'

That the "absurdly rich" heiress to the Walmart commercial empire had $1 billion lying around to use for opening an art museum in Arkansas had Real Time host Bill Maher fuming on Friday.

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Bill Maher: Supreme Court ruling on political spending was 'written by The Little Mermaid'

Real Time host Bill Maher blasted Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday for justifying the high court's decision to eliminate federal campaign contribution limits by saying he did not believe contributing large sums of money was a gateway to political corruption.

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Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert: BP should be banned from the Gulf of Mexico

Amid a lengthy anti-Obamacare rant on Wednesday, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) said that British oil giant BP should be banned from the Gulf of Mexico because of its record of safety violations and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010.

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Rachel Maddow rips 'creepy' new Wisconsin law allowing 'observers' to loom around voters

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow blasted a new Wisconsin law on Thursday allowing "partisan election observers" to hover as close as three feet away as voters give their personal information to elections officials.

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Fox guest links Ft. Hood shooting to welfare recipients and immigrants 'who do nothing'

Former FBI agent Jonathan Gilliam on Thursday told Fox News that fewer soldiers would be "ticking time bombs" if the United States would stop handing out money to immigrants "who do nothing to earn their citizenship" in the first place.

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NC GOP candidate tells 6th grader: Gay marriage is like 'man marrying a dog'

A sixth grader in North Carolina said she was shocked on Wednesday when a candidate for the 6th Congressional Republican nomination told her that same-sex marriage was like "a man marrying a dog."

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Pat Robertson: Buying stuff 'by computer' is the 'Mark of the Beast'

Televangelist Pat Robertson warned on Thursday that the government was pushing technologies that would force every financial transaction to be controlled "by computer," and it could be the "Mark of the Beast" described in the Bible's book of Revelation.

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Oregon GOP candidate for governor: Same-sex marriage is 'a sin, just the same as murder'

A Republican candidate for the governorship of Oregon said in a meeting with the Oregonian newspaper that she views same-sex marriage as a sin on par with murder. The Oregonian's Harry Esteve reported that candidate Lorraine Mae Rafferty believes the same about abortion.

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Penn. police: Woman seeking 'safe haven' in church got raped by employee 'for hours'

Police in Pennsylvania say a church worker who was arrested on Wednesday for raping a woman in the church "for hours" had also been sought for sexually assaulting a young girl over a period of about three years.

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Florida sex offender accused of trying to burn lesbian couple and their children to death

A 73-year-old man in northwest Miami is accused of attempting to murder a lesbian couple and their children by setting fire to their home while they slept in what police are calling a hate crime. Miami's WSVN said that Braulio Valenzuela-Villanueva reportedly set fire to a mattress leaning against the women's trailer in the early hours of Saturday morning.

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