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Clockwise, from top left: Grant Woods, Michael Bloomberg, Ted Olson, Diane Ravitch, Ron Artest, Constance McMillen
The Year in Sanity: Our top 10
Slide show: What were the most rational moments of a chaotic year? You nominated, we ranked -- behold the winners
Topics: The Year in Sanity, News
Clockwise, from top left: Grant Woods, Michael Bloomberg, Ted Olson, Diane Ravitch, Ron Artest, Constance McMillen We asked for sanity — and you gave it to us. From a year rife with rampant Islamophobia, overt racism, frequent gay-bashing, constant fear-mongering and general craziness, you helped us pick out those few precious moments of rational, admirable behavior. Over the past few weeks, we’ve compiled and published your nominations for the Year in Sanity. Now, on the eve of the Stewart/Colbert rally, it’s time to rank ‘em.
Here are they are: the 10 sanest moments of 2010.
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Lisa Montgomery embraces her nephew Thursday after a tornado tore apart her home in Cleburne, Texas. The twister killed six people and destroyed entire swaths of the North Texas town.
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Jack McMahon, the defense attorney for abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell, speaks outside the Criminal Justice Center in Philadelphia Tuesday. His client was convicted of killing three babies in his clinic, and will serve multiple life sentences.
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A photo taken Monday captures Vice President Joe Biden's response to a Milwaukee second-grader's innovative proposal to end America's epidemic of gun violence. This guy!
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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., flanked by a grouper-eyed Michele Bachmann, addresses the IRS' admission that it targeted Tea Party groups in advance of the 2012 election. In an op-ed for CNN Thursday, the Kentucky senator slammed the president for his faux outrage.
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Ousted IRS chief Steven Miller is sworn in on Capitol Hill Friday. Miller testified before the House Ways and Means Committee on the extra scrutiny the agency gave conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status.
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Attorney General Eric Holder pauses as he testifies on Capitol Hill before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday. Holder is under fire, among other things, for the Justice Department's gathering of phone records at the Associated Press.
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O.J. Simpson sits during an evidentiary hearing at Clark County District Court in Las Vegas, Nev., Thursday. Simpson, who is currently serving a nine-to-33-year sentence in state prison for armed robbery and kidnapping, is using a writ of habeas corpus to seek a new trial.
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Major Tom to ground control: On Sunday astronaut Chris Hadfield recorded the first music video from space, a cover of David Bowie's "Space Oddity."
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When it rains it pours. President Barack Obama speaks during a news conference Thursday with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, inexplicably inspiring an #umbrellagate Twitter meme.
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A smoke plume rises high above a road block at the intersection of County A and Ross Road east of Solon Springs, Wis., Tuesday. No injuries were reported, but the the wildfire caused evacuations across northwestern Wisconsin.
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