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        • Human Barbie Valeria Lukyanova Shares Video of Herself at Beach: See Her Tiny Waist!

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                • A List of Cliven Bundy's Supporters, Now That We Know He's a Pro-Slavery Racist

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                      • PARENTS ARE APPALLED BY MAN'S INDIFFERENCE TO HIS YOUNG SON

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                        • Jon Stewart deftly shows Sean Hannity why you don't pick a fight with Jon Stewart

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                                        • What It Means to Be Middle Class Today

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                                            • Russia's Putin calls the Internet a 'CIA project'

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