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Bristol Palin's pregnancy announcement is her coming out

Go away, Mike Huckabee: The culture wars are over -- and hate and the GOP lost

Fox News just fired one of its hosts in the most vicious & humiliating way imaginable

Ted Cruz goes berserk over SCOTUS rulings: "Some of the darkest 24 hours in our nation's history"

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Bill Maher disses Donald Trump: “The Frankenstein monster that was created with the Tea Party"

Maher unloads on GOP homophobia and suggests "America is finally growing up"

Let's all laugh at the Weekly Standard's lame same-sex marriage tweet

"Gone with the Wind" must stay: Why banning the racist film solves nothing

Why America needs to reject the Charleston massacre's dangerous narrative of forgiveness

They're still fighting the Civil War -- and still lying about the Confederate flag

The wingnuts aren't going anywhere: Why the Obamacare fight is far from over

Rush Limbaugh's anti-Pope freakout proves that he needs a crash course in reading comprehension

Viral rewind: Joe Biden's "smartass" quip earned him some conservative heat

America is changing, and marriage equality is a huge victory -- but we need to go so much further

Dawes: You've always got to find ways to keep it interesting

I never thought I'd see the day

Long struggle, quick endgame as same-sex marriage prevails

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