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Former "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" star Janet Hubert compared fellow black actress and Fox News contributor Stacey Dash to a prostitute for her arguments against BET and Black History Month. (HuffPost Live)

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(U.S. Air Force/File)

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Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democratic National Committee Chair (Associated Press) **FILE**

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Illustration on supply, demand and costs in U. S. healthcare by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Our Moral Compass on Syria Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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Our Moral Compass on Syria Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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"I have voted against this budget every year for the past seven years," said Maryland Del. Patrick McDonough during a debate on the new state of Maryland budget in Annapolis, Md. on Thursday, March 22, 2012. He went on to say that every year there has been an increase in taxes and that Maryland is now the most taxed state in the country. Meanwhile, outside the State House, protesters circled the building honking their horns to show their opposition to existing high taxes as well as proposed new ones. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Melissa Click, an assistant professor in the University of Missouri's communications, gestures during a run-in with student journalists on Nov. 9, 2015, at a campus protest that followed the resignations of the university system's president and the Columbia campus' chancellor in Columbia, Missouri. (Associated Press)

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Employees tend to marijuana plants at a grow house in Denver on Dec. 31, 2013. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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Concerned: Sonia Gandhi (center in blue), leader of India's opposition Congress party, leads a protest against religious bigotry and rising communal violence in the country. She says she is worried about Prime Minister Narendra Modi's relative silence through it all. (Associated Press)

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Members of the Indian Youth Congress burn an effigy of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to protest against his visit to Pakistan in New Delhi, India, Friday, Dec. 25, 2015. Modi arrived in Pakistan on Friday, his first visit as prime minister to the Islamic nation that has been India's long-standing arch rival in the region. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

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Ferguson, Missouri, became a federal focus over policing as riots and protests erupted in the wake of the 2014 fatal shooting of an 18-year-old black man by a city police officer. The Justice Department later determined that the police department and municipal court had engaged in a "pattern and practice" of discrimination against black residents. (Associated Press/File)

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Sen. Kelly Ayotte, D-N.H., left, speaks as Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, and Gov. Peter Shumlin, D-Vt., listen during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on attacking America’s epidemic of heroin and prescription drug abuse, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Dozens of former Wounded Warrior Project employees have accused the charity of needlessly spending millions of dollars in donations on lavish conferences and parties. (CBS News)

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John Bolton's political action committees are pulling in millions of dollars for national security candidates (John R. Bolton)

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A Planned Parenthood clinic is seen Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016 in Houston. A Houston grand jury investigating undercover footage at the Houston clinic found no wrongdoing Monday, Jan. 25, 2016, by the abortion provider, and instead indicted anti-abortion activists involved in making the videos that targeted the handling of fetal tissue in clinics and provoked outrage among Republican leaders nationwide. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan) **FILE**

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‘I thought we’d be together only in death.’
– Slumdog Millionaire, 2008

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silence_of_the_lambs

‘A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.’
– The Silence of the Lambs, 1991

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‘I always figured when I got older, God would sorta come into my life somehow. And he didn’t. I don’t blame him. If I was him I would have the same opinion of me that he does.’ – No Country for Old Men, 2007