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    #108 I’m Done With You On This Topic
    Refugees continue to stream across the Canada-U.S. border, presumably for photo-ops with smiling Canadian Mounties. Also, Milo Yiannopoulos finally finds the nail on which conservative Americans can hang him.
    February 23, 2017
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    Refugees continue to stream across the Canada-U.S. border, presumably for photo-ops with smiling Canadian Mounties. Also, Milo Yiannopoulos finally finds the nail on which conservative Americans can hang him.

    Finally, Rebel.Media supporters channel their inner Hunger Games’ geekdom at an anti-Islam rally in Toronto.

    Washington Post contributor and cartoonist J.J. McCullough joins us from Vancouver.

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