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WWE’s New Racist Tea Party Villain

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“The WWE has entered the Tea Party mockery game with character Jack Swagger and his villainous “Real American” manager Zeb Colter, generating outcry from conservative fans of the pro-wrestling organization.”* The WWE has a new wrestling villain- a tea party racist named Jack Swagger and his manager Zeb Colter. This …

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For-Profit Prison Gets Name on Football Stadium

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“For more than two years, Florida Atlantic University has been searching for the name of a corporate sponsor to adorn its new 30,000-seat, palm-ringed football stadium. The public university on Tuesday announced an unconventional partner: the nation’s second-largest operator of for-profit prisons, the GEO Group Inc. The newly christened GEO …

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GOP Cat Fight! Newt vs. Karl Rove

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“Newt Gingrich is not pleased with Karl Rove’s latest strategy for the Republican Party. In an op-ed published by conservative magazine Human Events on Wednesday, the former House speaker and Republican presidential candidate spoke out against the Rove-backed Conservative Victory Project, an offshoot of Rove’s American Crossroads super PAC that …

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Tiger Who? Obama Golfs with Oil CEOs

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“On the same weekend that 40,000 people gathered on the Mall in Washington to protest construction of the Keystone Pipeline — to its critics, a monument to carbon-based folly — President Obama was golfing in Florida with a pair of Texans who are key oil, gas and pipeline players.”* The …

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Priest Tweets: Jesus Loves My Team More

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“So there’s a Catholic priest named Father Joseph Krupp and, being the chaplain for the Michigan State University football team, he happens to be a fan of MSU sports in general.”* Pray for the other team’s parents, because they’re going to be weeping after what we do to their children …

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Sony ‘reveals’ the PlayStation 4

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Nilay Patel reports from Sony’s PlayStation 4 event in New York. More from The Verge: Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=theverge Check out our full video catalog: http://www.youtube.com/theverge/videos Visit our playlists: http://www.youtube.com/theverge/playlists Like The Verge on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/verge Follow on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/verge Follow on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/verge Read More: http://www.theverge.com

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