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          Justin Bartha, Lia Smith | Photo Credits: Michael Buckner/WireImage/Getty Images
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        • Billboard Music Awards: Everything You Need to Know May. 17, 2013
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        • Report: Beyonce Really Is Pregnant! May. 17, 2013
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        • Republicans fabricated Benghazi email quotes — and ABC News reporter fell for the ruse May. 17, 2013
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        • Who Wants to be an Executioner? May. 17, 2013
          I’ve been thinking about Rick’s response to the notion that our first black president has gleefully presided over the lynching of a criminal suspect. What is Rick’s response? 99% like this! As if Facebook overrides the Constitution. And then I point out that it was unlikely that the federal government could have convicted bin Laden in a fair trial, and Rick responds that this is ok, because bin Laden was a dirt bag.
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        • Surprise! The so-called IRS scandal has nothing to do with taxes! May. 17, 2013
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