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\u201cYou can\u2019t teach American history without talking about race<\/a>, it\u2019s impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was clear the terrorists perceived themselves to be Christians<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn short, in an attempt to demonstrate that Donald Trump was still the rightful president, a county clerk tweeted that the election machines she was in charge of overseeing were in fact vulnerable, and in order to prove it someone in her office allegedly carried out the very breach she was falsely claiming<\/a> must have been committed by anti-Trump forces.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Bible and the Constitution are not supposed to be separate<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe granddaughter of arch anti-LGBTQ activist Anita Bryant is getting married to another woman<\/a>, and she doesn\u2019t know whether to invite her homophobic grandmother to her wedding.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cA 51-year-old Florida man planned to have his 22-year-old ex-girlfriend, her sister and her brother-in-law killed and then pin the murders on Black Lives Matter protesters<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA 34-year-old congregant of Hillsong Church and graduate of Hillsong College died \u2026 after a month-long bout with the coronavirus during which he posted jokes about the COVID-19 vaccine<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOther emails told Fauci his \u2018entire family \u2026 are about to be dragged into the street and slaughtered<\/a>\u2018 and made references to Bill Gates and George Soros. Threatening emails were also sent to Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the NIH.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of June, Detroit experienced its second 500-year flood in seven years<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile California sterilized more than 20,000 people before its law was repealed in 1979<\/a>, only a few hundred are still alive.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI have not publicly talked about this sting, and this article will be the first time TJ learns how busted he is<\/a>. Howdy TJ.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSpace tourism will inevitably suck<\/a>. Our billionaires won\u2019t find anything up there but a whole lot of time to sit with the gaping void in their hearts, which space certainly won\u2019t fill, while forcibly holding their asscheeks to a suctioning toilet seat, because they\u2019re constipated as hell from astronaut food.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople go to basketball games to have fun, not to perform half-hearted displays of patriotism that are somehow both needlessly contentious and boring<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe passageways rumored to be under the Lion House<\/a> \u2014 and under much of Columbus [Georgia] \u2014 are a macabre form of folklore that Columbusites willingly entertain.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also make good pizza. So, that helps<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know most of our forefathers, all of our main Founding Fathers were against slavery<\/a>, recognized the evils of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cUnless your head is in a hole somewhere, there\u2019s no way you don\u2019t know this<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving gotten the \u2018whip handle,\u2019<\/a> if I can use that term.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the terror of being described by those they have been describing<\/a> for so long.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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