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Trollin', trollin', trollin' Trollin', trollin', trollin' Trollin', trollin', trollin' Trollin', trollin', trollin' Rawhide!Move 'em on, head 'em up Head 'em up, move 'em on Move 'em on, head 'em up RawhideCut 'em out, ride 'em in Ride 'em in, cut 'em out Cut 'em out, ride 'em in RawhideHa ha ha! Everybody complains about the lyin’ media, President Trump does something about it:The man does more trolling in 140 characters than most democratic operatives with bylines™ can do in a whole column.Keep movin', movin', movin' Though they're disapprovin' Keep them doggies movin', rawhideLike a bossDon't try to understand 'em Just...

Even for Donald Trump, the distance is still fun to think about, up here in his penthouse 600 ft. in the sky, where it’s hard to make out the regular people below. The ice skaters swarming Central Park’s Wollman Rink look like old-television static, and the Fifth Avenue holiday shoppers could be mites in a gutter. To even see this view, elevator operators, who spend their days standing in place, must push a button marked 66–68, announcing all three floors of Trump’s princely pad. Inside, staff members wear cloth slipcovers on their shoes, so as not to scuff the shiny...

Take a look at this year's candidates (listed in alphabetical order) and give them your rating — though TIME's editors who choose the actual Person of the Year reserve the right to disagree. Some of the candidates included are: * Julian Assange * Glenn Beck * The Chilean Miners * Arne Duncan * Lady Gaga * Hu Jintao * LeBron James * Steve Jobs * Hamid Karzai * David and Charles Koch * Barack Obama * Sarah Palin * Nancy Pelosi * Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert * The Unemployed American * Mark Zuckerberg

Sunday, December 23, 2007 Here's one reason Time should have named Gen. David Petraeus its Person of the Year. In fact, here are 70 reasons: Seventy senators voted last Tuesday to provide $70 billion more to fund the Iraq War, and the latest cash came free and clear. No timetable for withdrawal. No deadlines. No strings attached. Who would have thought this possible a year ago? Or a half-year ago? Surely not the Iraq Study Group, which wanted a staged withdrawal. Surely not the nation's media-cracy, which had decided Iraq's "civil war" was "lost." Surely, not Democrats, who'd taken control...