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The Minneapolis City Council may soon have on its agenda a proposal to hold bars responsible for what patrons do off-premises.

There are times when the drama of current news stories aligns in such a way that no fictional adaptation could possibly hope to make it more interesting, or a greater spectacle.  Case in point

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In his address on Tuesday, Barack Obama said, "For seven years we have been a nation at war.

Courtesy of the Washington Post here's the full video of the president's Tuesday Address to Congress, sans commercial interruption:

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