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Where did the word 'dude' come from?

Or El Duderino, if you're not into the whole brevity thing

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Damon Linker

The lost art of being reasonable

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Bonnie Kristian

How the Founding Fathers encourage political violence

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Cathy Young

Why banning 'harmful' online speech is a slippery slope

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'I loved that gig'

Kathy Griffin slams CNN for firing her but not Jeffrey Toobin

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Mace vs. Greene is the fight for the future of the GOP

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