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Ventura will move forward against Kyle's estate.

Jesse Ventura has decided to proceed in his defamation case against Christopher Kyle, the Iraq war vet and best-selling author who was gunned down at a shooting range earlier this year, says Ventura's attorney, David Olsen.

Ventura filed the suit in February 2012, alleging Kyle fabricated a story about punching him out for his book, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History. According to Kyle's account, Ventura was being loud and rude at a California bar in 2006, at one point telling Kyle, "You deserve to lose a few." Kyle was at the time mourning the death of a teammate, and clocked Ventura in the face, according to his book.

Kyle doesn't mention Ventura by name, but has acknowledged that "Scruff face" is indeed a reference to Minnesota's former governor. Several Navy SEALs have filed affidavits corroborating that Ventura was at the bar acting disrespectful, and at least one claims to have seen the entire incident play out. Ventura denies the whole story, and says he was not at the bar that night.

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Jon Stewart thinks the gun control debate goes beyond 'should we ban firearms or not?'

For Jesse Ventura, gun control is the ability to "put two rounds into the same hole from 25 meters." In other words, he's a strong supporter of the Second Amendment who once characterized the federal assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 as "a stupid piece of legislation."

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So it wasn't a surprise when, during an appearance on a talk show in September, Ventura offered up this reductio ad absurdum to those who think the government should crack down on guns because they're good for nothing but killing people: "Drunk driving... do we go to the Ford Motor Company and tell them stop making these automobiles because people get drunk and kill people in cars?" But to Jon Stewart, the most absurd thing about that statement is Ventura's overly black-and-white view about the role government can play in gun control.

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Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura has made no secret of his desire to run for president as an independent candidate in 2016, and he may have recently found his ideal running mate: Howard Stern.
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Jesse and Terry Ventura think you should vote no this November.

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Jesse and Terry Ventura are still in love 37 years after getting married, and they believe everyone, regardless of their sexuality, should be able to experience the same happiness they've enjoyed.

Today, Minnesotans United for All Families posted a video of Minnesota's former first couple explaining why they support gay marriage.

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It's Obama's skin color, not his politics, that set him apart, Jesse said.

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Jesse Ventura insulted Barack Obama with one of the worst slurs imaginable -- he called him the black George W. Bush.

During an interview with BuzzFeed Politics yesterday, Ventura was asked whether he prefers Obama or Romney. In reply, he said that anybody who reads his new book -- Democrips and Rebloodlicans -- understands that it's basically a choice between flat Coke and flat Pepsi.


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Jesse alleges a fellow SEAL is defaming him by claiming he kicked The Body's ass during a bar fight.

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Jesse Ventura is an ex-Navy SEAL, pro wrasslin' tough guy. So it makes sense he's none too happy about a fellow SEAL's claim that he kicked The Body's ass in a California bar.

Ex-sniper Chris Kyle recently published "American Sniper," a memoir looking back at his military career and some of the relationships he developed along the way. In one particularly interesting passage, he details a September 2006 bar encounter he had with Ventura, who Kyle calls "Scruff Face," during a funeral for a fellow SEAL who died in Iraq.


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Though he doesn't like the GOP, Jesse says he would consider being Ron Paul's VP candidate.

Jesse Ventura's latest book -- "DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans" -- hits stores today.

If the title of the book isn't direct enough for you, excerpts make it clear that the former governor still has a distaste for Democrats and Republicans. Jesse writes that he has "electile dysfunction," which he defines as "the inability to become aroused over any of the choices for president put forth by either party in the 2012 election year."

Regarding the title's gang connotations, Ventura writes that America's two parties have "created a system based upon bribery. Today, Wall Street owns our politicians, no matter which party (gang) it is -- their allegiance is to the corporations and big business." That sounds like familiar Ventura-speak, but new in "DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans" (ghostwritten by longtime collaborator Dick Russell) is Jesse's distaste for third parties.

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Jesse Ventura is taking his case to the WCCO newsroom.

Apparently Jesse Ventura hasn't quite gotten over his beef with the Transportation Security Administration.

Just last week, a judge tossed out Ventura's fourth amendment lawsuit against TSA, which alleged that pat-downs and body scans violated our constitutional rights.

Now he's invading the WCCO newsroom, lecturing reporters on the dangerous practices of TSA.

WCCO producer Greg Litman tweeted out a photo this afternoon of everyone's favorite former governor giving anchor Mark Rosen a lesson on civil liberties. Here's a screenshot:

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Jesse Ventura has two plans which seem to conflict with each other.

​Jesse Ventura got his lawsuit against TSA pat-downs thrown out on jurisdictional grounds, and today Ventura held a press conference to vent his frustration with the  American legal system.

So, now, of course, the former governor wants to become a Mexican. Pretty obvious next step, right?

Or! Maybe he'll just become President (of the United States) -- we think? -- and then he'll just change the laws he doesn't like.

The presidential race, and the state of U.S.-Mexican relations, might be about to get a whole lot stranger.

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Jesse Ventura probably considers this ruling part of a larger plan.

​Jesse Ventura pretty much lives his life like an action hero.

So, when Ventura's lawsuit against the Transportation Security Administration got thrown out yesterday, it was the real-life moment when the hero realizes no one believes him, and he's going to have to go it alone.

Unfortunately, the former pro wrestler/movie star/governor of this state wasn't on hand to give the dramatic speech that launches the second act.

But we can only assume Ventura's thoughts about the lawsuit, in which Ventura is suing to protect your crotch from nosy TSA staffers, would be even more extreme than what he said back in July, when he explained to a TSA attorney that America was "a fascist nation now."

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