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So how much does the Libya intervention cost? The AP tries to nail down some specifics: The US fired about 160 Tomahawk missiles, and those cost somewhere between $1 million and $1.5 million apiece. B-2 bombers flying round-trip from Missouri have logged 25 hours of flying time, with the…

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Attention, lamestream media: Sarah Palin has had it with you, to the point where she’s not even going to whine about you anymore. Seems Bill Maher called her a nasty name ever-so-subtly invoking female genitalia , NOW leaped to her defense, and Palin went on Fox yesterday to tell everyone to…

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A group of female protesters detained by Egyptian soldiers say they were beaten, stripped, given electric shocks, and humiliated with so-called “virginity tests” while male soldiers were allowed to watch and take photos, reports AOL News . The women complained to Amnesty International, which found the allegations credible and demanded that…

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After more than a century with no access to the Pacific, Bolivia is threatening to take Chile to international court in a fight for its right to sail. Bolivia lost those rights in a war 132 years ago, and it remains an “open wound,” according to President Evo Morales. “We…

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There’s more to lovemaking than penile-vaginal intercourse, says Pamela Stephenson Connolly I was a widow of 55 and met a 60-year-old widower and we eventually married. I find intercourse painful so we make up for it by cuddling and fondling each other’s sensitive parts. I

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There’s more to lovemaking than penile-vaginal intercourse, says Pamela Stephenson Connolly I was a widow of 55 and met a 60-year-old widower and we eventually married. I find intercourse painful so we make up for it by cuddling and fondling each other’s sensitive parts. I

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Republicans keep attacking health care reform, and with one loud exception, Democrats have been “passive to the point of wimpy” in defending it, writes Dana Milbank in the Washington Post . That exception? “Brooklyn-born streetfighter” Anthony Weiner. “I don’t represent the hide-under-the-desk wing of the Democratic Party,” the New York congressman…

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We remember John Wayne in the saddle, Brigitte Bardot on the sand—and as for Elizabeth Taylor, we’ll remember her on a bed, writes Tim Robey in the Telegraph . Somehow, she managed to sprawl over soft furniture in “most of her key roles,” he notes. “One suspects she felt most…

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It’s brotherly revenge gone terribly wrong: When Sean Mulcahy learned that his brother Ryan had slept with his fiancée, he slit the throat of Ryan’s cat, dumped it in a ditch across the street, and then texted Ryan a photo of the grisly deed, reports the Chicago Tribune . Sean pleaded…

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Finally, some good news for Amanda Knox? Two forensic scientists have re-examined the alleged murder weapon and found that it doesn’t have enough DNA on it even to conduct another test, report the Telegraph and Daily Mail . The knife was one of the key pieces of evidence used to tie…

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