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John Aravosis
@aravosis | Facebook | Google+. Editor of AMERICAblog, joint JD/MSFS from Georgetown, worked in the US Senate, World Bank, Children's Defense Fund, and as a stringer for the Economist. A frequent TV pundit, he has been on The O'Reilly Factor, Hardball, World News Tonight, Nightline & Reliable Sources. Full bio and article archive.

Boy Scouts lift ban on gay scouts, still consider us pedophiles when we hit 18

Boy Scouts still face funding problem as ongoing discrimination will force corporate sponsors to abstain.

5/23/2013 6:55pm by John Aravosis 29

RNC chair Reince Priebus:
Some say dark elf, I say Romulan.

GOP Chairman Priebus suggests impeachment is coming over Benghazi

National Journal reports that GOP party chair Priebus suggested today that impeachment is coming over Benghazi.

5/23/2013 2:57pm by John Aravosis 103

Alex Jones, demonstrating with his hands how the government's small planes fly between the clouds to create a tornado.

Yes, Virginia, there are tornado-truthers

Tornado-truthers worry the government and its secret weapons might just be behind the Moore, Oklahoma tornado.

5/23/2013 12:45pm by John Aravosis 57

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Oklahoma tornado damage before-and-after satellite images via Google (video)

The animated image you see above is the Briarwood Elementary school, before and after the tornado struck.

5/23/2013 10:30am by John Aravosis 11

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How they created the tornado in the Wizard of Oz (video)

And a neat video of them testing the tornado that they would use in the Wizard of Oz. Amazing for 1938.

5/23/2013 7:00am by John Aravosis 14

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How to interrogate a one-year-old (video)

A dad interrogates his young daughter about who her favorite parent is. All does not go well.

5/22/2013 10:20pm by John Aravosis 4

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Florida’s GOP attorney general thinks banksters get a bad rap

Pam Bondi thinks mortgage lenders got a bad rap, but she’s livid about Urban Outfitter’s Rx shot glasses.

5/22/2013 7:07pm by John Aravosis 21

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Wolf Blitzer asks atheist Oklahoma tornado survivor “if she thanks the Lord”

Blitzer: “You gotta thank the Lord, right? Do you thank the Lord?” Woman: “I, I… I’m actually an atheist.”

5/22/2013 4:15pm by John Aravosis 51

Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how’d you like the immigration bill?

Democrats bail on gay couples, leave them out of immigration bill (again), under pressure from Republicans.

5/22/2013 8:00am by John Aravosis 265

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Video of the birth of the Oklahoma tornado

A reader found a video that appears to show the birth of the monster tornado that ravaged Oklahoma.

5/21/2013 9:30pm by John Aravosis 16

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