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Dennis Rodman: 'My friend' Kim Jung Un just wants Obama to call him

Former NBA star Dennis Rodman, whose fame stemmed as much from his on-court talent as it did from his perpetually bizarre antics,  said on Sunday that North Korean leader Kim Jung Un is a good guy, albeit a misunderstood one.

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Bill Kristol: Romney lost Latinos because they want free health care

Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol says that Latino voters decided to support President Barack Obama over former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in 2012 because they wanted government handouts like free health care "and thought Obamacare provided it."

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Romney says Obama is like a Roman emperor: 'Nero is fiddling'

Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney asserted in a recent interview that President Barack Obama was like the Roman emperor, Nero, who was "fiddling" while Rome burned.

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Ann Romney: 'I'm happy to blame the media' for election loss

Ann Romney says that she blames the media for her husband's loss in the 2012 presidential election because the "universally felt opinion" is that reporters wanted President Barack Obama to be re-elected.

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Touré rips Scalia's remarks on Voting Rights Act: 'Completely racist'

Friday night on MSNBC's "Martin Bashir" show, host Martin Bashir welcomed Touré, co-host of "The Cycle," who discussed Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's remarks characterizing 1965's Voting Rights Act as "racial entitlement." Touré called the sitting justice's statements "completely racist" and wondered that in the face of so much evidence of vote suppression from the 2012 election that anyone could believe that the Voting Rights Act is no longer needed in this country.

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Maher on conservatives spurning Chris Christie: 'Do they have a death wish?'

During a discussion on his show Friday, HBO host Bill Maher and his guests raked the organizers of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) over the coals for not inviting New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) to appear.

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Paul Krugman: Sequester 'was designed to be stupid'

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman used some of President Barack Obama's language on Friday in describing the spending cuts the president signed into effect.

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'Troublemaker of the Year' tells Moyers science studies needed to 'ensure the survival of the human race'

The 19-year-old activist who was named "Troublemaker of the Year" by ... told Bill Moyers on Friday that teaching children humanity's origins will help the species survive.

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Former tea party candidate's sewage rant gets him booted from school board meeting

Carl Paladino was the 2010 Republican candidate for governor of New York, but now the tea party activist is not even welcome at a Buffalo School Board meeting.

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NRA president: Gun owners will do 'whatever's necessary' to 'get rid of' anti-gun lawmakers

National Rifle Association (NRA) President David Keene on Thursday promised that gun owners would do "whatever's necessary" to "get rid of those in public office" that they viewed as working to erode the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

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Injured 'Sheriff Joe' releases hospital bed videos

After falling and breaking his arm while walking through downtown Phoenix on Thursday, Sheriff Joe Arpaio released a pair of videos of himself in a hospital bed, talking about his determination to return to work. According to Talking Points Memo, the 80-year-old sheriff spoke to a woman off camera about how the injury took place and said that he would return to work as soon as possible, but that he didn't know when that would be.

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Sean Hannity suggests Keith Ellison is the 'equivalent' of the KKK

Sean Hannity on Thursday responded to Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MI)'s accusation that he was a "shill" for the Republican Party by linking the Muslim Congressman to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, who he called "a racist and an anti-Semite."

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Woodward backs off White House 'threat' claim: 'I haven't used that language'

Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward on Thursday seemed to back off the claim that White House economic adviser Gene Sperling threatened him by suggesting that he would "regret" his reporting on the sequester.

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