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Nailed It

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Michael Froomkin

The Onion captures a great deal of what is wrong with the US in one headline: Rumors Of Extramarital Affair End Campaign Of Presidential Candidate Who Didn’t Know China Has Nuclear Weapons.

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