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Hey, Hillary Fans: Whatever Happened To ‘I Believe Women’?

OMAHA, NE-DECEMBER 16: Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at a Town Hall rally at Sokol Auditorium December 16, 2015 in Omaha, Nebraska. Clinton was joined onstage by Billionaire Businessman Warren Buffett. (Photo by Steve Pope/Getty Images

About a year ago, the term "rape denier" became a popular way to silence anyone who was skeptical about a claim of sexual assault. If you didn't agree that a rape accusation alone was sufficient evidence of guilt, you were a "rape denier."

What A Year, Huh?

10:11 AM 12/31/2015

Another arbitrary measurement of time has passed, my friends. We're almost ready for the next arbitrary measurement of time.

Caption This: The Guy Charged With Setting That Houston Mosque On Fire

1:47 PM 12/30/2015

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A Belgian police officer stands guard at the entrance of the Brussels' central police headquarters, December 29, 2015, after two people were arrested in Belgium on Sunday and Monday, both suspected of plotting an attack in Brussels on New Year's Eve, federal prosecutors said.  REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

#NotAllMuslims Arrested For Plotting Attacks In Belgium

1:02 PM 12/30/2015

When it comes to attacks by Muslim terrorists, 2015 has been a year of weird coincidences: Paris, San Bernardino, Paris again, UC Merced, Garland, Copenhagen, Paris yet again, Chattanooga... I'm sure I'm missing a few. That's just off the top of my head. And that's just here in Western civilization! Worldwide, the list of Muslim terror attacks in 2015 is as long as your arm. If you have really long arms.

House Of Cosbys

11:09 AM 12/30/2015

The following is one of my favorite things to ever come out of the Internet, and I'm always glad for an excuse to share it with anyone who hasn't seen it.

#NotAllMuslims Finally Figure Out When It’s Okay To Have Sex With Their Slaves

2:40 PM 12/29/2015

Come on, ISIS might be a bit boisterous, but they're not animals. When you sign up, they'll let you kidnap women and keep them as sex slaves, but you can't just do whatever you want with them. Rules are rules.

Happy New Year, Grandma Clinton

1:48 PM 12/29/2015

Those dumb teabaggers at America Rising are at it again. Now they're trying to make Hillary Clinton look bad by putting together some clips of 2015 "news stories," with a bunch of right-wing pundits being all pundity and right-wing.

Cecil Or Cecilia?

10:15 AM 12/29/2015

Animals are dumb, and everybody's tired of pretending to care about Cecil the Lion. Now America has a new leonine heartthrob, and this one is perfect for our current golden age of gender fluidity.

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses the crowd during a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, December 21, 2015. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook

The Year In Review: Top 10 Smartest Things Trump Said In 2015

7:14 PM 12/28/2015

It's no surprise to my longtime reader(s) that I'm not a fan of Donald Trump. He's a jerk and a blowhard and a bully. But he's obviously not a dumb guy. He keeps saying stuff that would end anybody else's campaign, yet his polls just keep going up. Clearly, he's not playing the same game as anybody else in either party. I'm still not ready to embrace the idea of Trump as the Republican candidate for president, but I'm not going to deny that it's possible. It could happen. And if it does, we all need to understand how he did it. We need to accept the possibility that we're the dumb ones, not Trump. We need to come to grips with the idea that he's playing three-dimensional chess while the rest of us are playing checkers. With mittens on. In the dark.

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Please Help Joss Whedon Kill Lots Of Helpless Babies

11:35 AM 12/28/2015

Earlier this year, Marvel proved that more is less with Avengers: Age of Ultron. It had more of everything people loved in the first one, yet it still managed to be, in most aspects, vaguely disappointing.

Tashfeen Malik, (L), and Syed Farook are pictured passing through Chicago's O'Hare International Airport in this July 27, 2014 handout photo obtained by Reuters December 8, 2015. REUTERS/US Customs and Border Protection/Handout via Reuters

#NotAllMuslims Helped Plot The San Bernardino Attack

9:48 AM 12/28/2015

Most Muslims didn't know Syed Farook or his lovely wife Tashfeen. A vast majority of Muslims, even. You need to keep that in mind before you go blaming all Muslims by using "Muslim" as a descriptor. Plus, if you suspect that anybody at a mosque might be plotting to do bad things -- as opposed to just praying, which is perfectly fine because they're not Christians -- that's racist and bigoted and Islamophobic. You should be ashamed of yourself, you racist, bigoted Islamophobe.

‘Twas The Week Before Christmas, And All Through The Blog…

4:00 PM 12/18/2015

Your pal Treach was just musing: What the heck is a "nog"?

Michael Moore Stood In Front Of Trump Tower And Held Up A Sign

12:48 PM 12/18/2015

You might not think holding up a sign accomplishes much, but it accomplishes exactly what Michael Moore wants. It soaks up some leftover attention from somebody who's been getting more of it than he is.

Obama Blasts Carson's ISIS Strategy: 'He Doesn't Know Much About It' [screenshot ABC]

Obama Didn’t Know Americans Are Concerned About Terrorism, Because He Didn’t See It On TV

9:33 AM 12/18/2015

The following quote was published in the Newspaper of Record. It's about an "off-the-record" meeting Obama had earlier this week with several newspaper columnists, in which he explained his approach to dealing with ISIS.

Police officers investigate a crime scene at Leytonstone underground station in east London, Britain December 6, 2015. REUTERS/Neil Hall

The Bruv Who Yelled ‘You Ain’t No Muslim, Bruv’ Ain’t No Muslim, Bruv

1:13 PM 12/17/2015

It was a moment that brought leftists around the world together in one big cluster of self-righteous smugness: "You ain't no Muslim, bruv."

A Beginner’s Guide To Star Wars

11:16 AM 12/17/2015

In case you haven’t heard, tomorrow is the release date of a little movie called Star Wars: Forced Awakening. Are you interested in seeing it, but you’re worried that you won’t know what’s going on because you haven’t seen the other 8 films?

Tashfeen Malik, (L), and Syed Farook are pictured passing through Chicago's O'Hare International Airport in this July 27, 2014 handout photo obtained by Reuters December 8, 2015. REUTERS/US Customs and Border Protection/Handout via Reuters

Islamic Terrorists Murdered 14 People, So Obama Wants Everybody Else’s Guns

8:19 AM 12/17/2015

Barack Obama is determined to make himself the last Democrat in the White House for a long, long time.

Caption This: The New Ghostbusters

2:45 PM 12/16/2015

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Islam Muslim green star and crescent (Getty Images)

VA High School Calligraphy Lesson: ‘There Is No God But Allah’

1:30 PM 12/16/2015

Shahada happens.