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While speaking on the House floor Friday, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) tried to impress her colleagues by pulling out a famous quotation, but instead proved she needs to brush up on her Shakespeare.

Bachmann called out Democrats, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), for their passionate responses to sequestration despite the fact that President Barack Obama, a Democrat, signed the sequestration bill.

“Thou protesteth too much,” Bachmann declared.

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No, this isn’t the world’s thinnest phone thanks to Alcatel and BBK, but Oppo’s recently announced R809T is still a seemingly attractive device judging by the above official image. Measuring at 6.93mm thick (instead of the rumored 6.13mm), we’re surprised that Oppo didn’t set this to be the follow-up to the Finder: sure, it’s 0.28mm thicker, but it also aces the latter with a 4.7-inch 720p in-cell display, a 1.2GHz quad-core chip with 1GB RAM (likely MediaTek’s Cortex-A7-based MT6589 SoC), Android 4.2 and a sorely missed 3.5mm headphone jack — so no micro-USB adapter required. Then there’s also an 8-megapixel main camera plus an increasingly common 2-megapixel, 88-degree wide front-facing imager, which is obviously no match for the 5-megapixel counterpart on Oppo’s Ulike 2.

Pricing and availability have yet to be announced, but given the “T” in the model name, chances are it’ll only work on China Mobile’s TD-SCDMA network, anyway; unless you really don’t mind using just GSM. Close-up shot after the break.

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PITTSBURGH (AP) — When Jarvis Jones slogged through the 40-yard dash in a pedestrian 4.9 seconds during Georgia’s Pro Day, a red flag went up to NFL scouts.

Just not the scouts that work for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Where some saw a problem, the Steelers saw an opportunity. General manager Kevin Colbert didn’t need his stopwatch to know the All-American linebacker can play.

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By Sara Benincasa, TakePart

At 21, Jacinda considered her male coworkers in the Navy to be her brothers. That was before she awoke in a drunken haze, bleeding from being anally raped after a party at the barracks.

She couldn’t find her shirt; so she wrapped a blanket around herself and walked directly across the street to the military police. They told Jacinda she shouldn’t have been drinking among so many men, and that she should chalk up the consequences to poor judgment and go home. The military police also intimidated her with threats of imprisonment if her report were judged to be false.

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Did Adolf Hitler model his genocidal Holocaust plans after Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger’s alleged actions?

That’s the inflammatory claim made by controversial evangelical leader Pat Robertson on Thursday’s episode of Christian Broadcasting Network’s “The 700 Club” program, which began with a discussion of President Barack Obama’s appearance at a Planned Parenthood fundraising event.

Robertson told viewers to “look up” Sanger, the woman who founded women’s health provider Planned Parenthood in the first half of the 20th century.

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