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O'Reilly blasts 'civil rights industry' as nothing but a 'hustle' and 'BS'

On Tuesday night, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly attacked African-Americans yet again, saying that groups working for equal rights in the U.S. are a "hustle," and exhorted National Urban League President Mark Morial to "stop the B.S., stop the diversions" and admit that he is right, that there is something fundamentally wrong with "black culture." O'Reilly was enlarging upon themes he brought up in his racist rant from Monday night's "O'Reilly Factor," in which he blamed single African-American women who have children for "the black crime problem."

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Hannity: Defund Obamacare and let Democrats shut down the government

Speaking to Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) on his radio show Tuesday, Republican opinion host Sean Hannity urged the tea party favorite to stand with fellow Republicans and force a government shutdown later this year by refusing to vote for any spending bill that includes money to implement the Affordable Care Act.

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Rep. Doug Collins: Atheists 'subversively' trying to undermine military chaplains

A Republican congressman and chaplain in the United States Air Force Reserves told Fox News on Tuesday that atheists were trying to subvert military chaplains.

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WATCH: Mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner addresses new sex chat allegations

Mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner (D) earlier today confirmed the veracity of some of the new explicit online chats that were revealed by an anonymous woman. He called a 5:00 pm press conference to address the allegations that the most recently-revealed chats occurred after his resignation from Congress -- while his wife, Huma Abedin, was pregnant.

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Virginia paper sorry for printing racist rant about 'black motherf*ckers'

A newspaper in Virginia on Tuesday said that it would apologize after protesters demonstrated outside of its offices on Monday over anonymous racist comments that were recently printed.

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Fox News rehabilitates Zimmerman with 'car crash truthers' report

Fox News on Tuesday extended a story about former neighborhood watchmen George Zimmerman's rescue of passengers in an overturned truck into a second day by taking on what they called "car crash truthers."

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D'oh! CNN host says humans 'hunted the dildo into extinction'

Apparently global warming wasn't the only thing on CNN host Jonathan Mann's mind when announced that humans had "hunted the dildo into extinction" during segment last week.

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Cruz: 'Gay marriage' leads to Christianity being defined as 'hate speech'

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is predicting that tolerance of equal rights for LGBT people will result in Christianity being defined as "hate speech."

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Harry Reid: McConnell 'tried to make love to the tea party, and they didn't like it'

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) on Monday told activists that Democrats had a better chance at maintaining a majority in the Senate because Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) had "tried to make love to the tea party, and they didn't like it."

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O'Reilly blames unwed black mothers for violent crimes

During a Monday night rant on the conservative Fox News Channel, Republican opinion host Bill O'Reilly personally diagnosed the black community's problems, lecturing that violent crime rate is due to "personal" choices made by single black mothers and insisting that more parental discipline and increasingly harsh penalties for drug crimes would be his preferred response.

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Maddow: Republicans' 'single most important legislative priority' on abortion is illegal

On Monday night's edition of "The Rachel Maddow Show," host Rachel Maddow discussed a federal judge in North Dakota's decision to overturn the state's draconian new anti-abortion law. The judge wrote that the ban on abortion after 6 weeks of pregnancy is a “blatant violation of the constitutional guarantees afforded to all women" and that the law runs directly afoul of an "unbroken stream of United States Supreme Court authority."

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Limbaugh on white guilt: 'It's preposterous that Caucasians are blamed for slavery'

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Monday said that he was done with "white guilt" because white people had done more to end slavery "than any other race."

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Sen. Ted Cruz' dad: America would be like Cuba without Ronald Reagan

Speaking to a Christian Broadcasting Network reporter over the weekend, the father of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) insisted that the U.S. would have been in a state today that resembles Cuba's communist regime, were it not for the presidency of Ronald Reagan.

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