Bitter irony may not sound like the key ingredient in such a free-for-all burlesque.

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The bitter irony is this long-drawn out debate comes when the internet - which, being global, has no regulatory restraints - is driving newspapers out of business.

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This is a bitter irony since it was the Jackson-Vanik amendment -- abandoned by President Bush on 12 December 1990 -- which linked freedom to leave the Soviet Union to access to government-guaranteed credits.

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The bitter irony of this entire endeavor was that a supposedly small government candidate gutted the local structure of GOTV efforts in favor of a centralized, faceless organization in a far off place (in this case, their Boston headquarters).

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And the bitter irony.

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It would be a bitter irony, indeed, if the funds that went to ensure the safety of the men, women and children of Somalia -- a worthy cause indeed -- are permitted to be taken from accounts intended to ensure the safety of the men, women and children of the United States against the threat of ballistic missile attack.

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