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On today's Morning Joe, asked by substitute host Willie Geist how much of the tough talk by Republicans and Dems over the fiscal cliff was posturing, former RNC Chairman Michael Steele said that 80% was posturing, then added "a lot of it is, let's see how big yours is versus mine." Steele was careful to suggest he was simply talking about the size of the two parties' respective . . . plans. But between the smirks, raised eyebrows—and an immediate intervention from Geist—it seemed obvious that Steele was making a macho allusion to something else. View the video here.

The Time Abraham Lincoln and a Political Rival Almost Dueled on an Island Exactly 170 years ago today, the Mississippi River levee in Alton, Illinois, was crammed full of spectators awaiting the results of a highly anticipated duel — a smackdown between Abraham Lincoln and political rival James Shields. Only one man could emerge victorious. Onlookers held their breath in suspense as they spotted a boat approaching with a blood-soaked body draped over the bow. It had all started where so many skirmishes do: the Illinois state legislature. Though at the time Lincoln was a Whig and Shields was a...

WHEELERSBURG, Ohio (WSAZ) -- A man is charged with felonious assault after detectives said he got into a fight with a man and chopped off his hand with a sword. The incident happened at a home in Wheelersburg on March 3. Detectives said that someone called 911 saying that a man showed up to a home on Clay Street in Wheelersburg with his hand amputated stating he had been in a fight. The victim was identified as Eric Hammond, 27, of Wheelersburg. According to the Scioto County Sheriff's Office, Hammond was treated at SOMC and then transported to a hospital...

EXCERPT Asked by FOX Business Network's Don Imus for his thoughts on Massa's allegation that he had a fight in the gym locker room with a naked White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, Weiner responded: "I have very few hard and fast rules. One of them is not to have sword fights in the morning with Rahm Emanuel.” "It's pretty clear from these interviews (Massa is) one taco short of a Happy Meal, or one taco short of a combo or whatever the expression is," the congressman continued. "But he has some serious health issues he has to get...

Don’t trust Democrat Rep. Eric Massa any further than you can throw him. He’s been a progressive zealot and political opportunist his entire career. He’s claimed conspiracy before, is intimately bonded with the nutroots, and climbed the political ladder with backing from the odious, anti-war-hoaxer-embracing Gen. Wesley Clark. What Massa dismissively calls his “salty old sailor” talk should raise bright red flags about possible longstanding predatory behavior. Look, I’m as happy as anyone to see Rahmbo and the Chicago Way slammed so openly by another Democrat. Naked shower fights? Blue-on-blue catfights? Yep, it confirms everything I’ve been writing about the...

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