[From the "You can't make this shit up" Department]:

Does Newt Gingrich believe in a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Democratic and Republican administrations have adopted that framework, but Mr. Gingrich raised the possibility he might break with it, calling Palestinians an “invented” people and the current stalled peace process “delusional.”

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The bank account was supposed to teach 18-year-old Daniel Ganziano about fiscal responsibility.

In the end, the McCullom Lake teenager said he learned just one thing: Don’t trust banks.

Of course, the United States Congress is poised to pass legislation that would let a record company pull down YouTube over the copyright infringement in this video. I want those brave lawmakers to explain that — personally — to the crew of HMS Ocean.

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There were thousands of Russians protesting the widespread ballot stuffing discovered during the elections last sunday. Russian police arrested hundreds of protesters who had gathered in Moscow’s Triumfalnaya Square, including Alexei Navalny. Protestors raised awareness using Twitter hashtags like #триумфальная (Triumfalnaya), but pro-Kremlin spammers were prepared to drown them out using 2000 automated twitterbots they’d created earlier this year.

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I live online as much as I live offline. Often, I move around in the world staring into a device as I walk, sharing bits of one realm with the other. The morning I went in for my first mammogram, I felt nervous. I would tweet this new thing, like I do with lots of new things, and make the unknown and new feel less so. Maybe by doing so, I thought while I was driving, other women like me who’d never done this would also feel like it was less weird, less scary, more normal and worth doing without hesitation. I’d crack some 140-character jokes. I’d make fun of myself and others. I would Instagram my mammogram.

I’m sure that’s all the sausage he’s interested in, right?

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In what is becoming a pattern for the struggling Texas governor, Mr Perry appeared to simply blank on the name of Justice Sonya Sotomayor, who he was trying to denounce as a collaborator in what he describes as President Barack Obama’s "war on religion".

"When you see his appointment of two, from my perspective, inarguably activist judges, whether it was…" Mr Perry began before trailing off and sitting silent for six seconds.

"Not Montemayor," he said before the name was finally supplied to him by a reporter from the Des Moines Register, the paper with which he was doing an editorial board interview.