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Obama Executive Order May Require Those Selling Even a Single Firearm to Become Licensed Dealers

Click here: Order also brings back plan to keep certain Social Security recipients from buying guns

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Do You Understand the Electoral College?

Do you understand what the Electoral College is? Or how it works? Or why America uses it to elect its presidents instead of just using a straight popular vote? Author, lawyer and Electoral College expert Tara Ross does, and she explains that to understand the Electoral College is to understand American democracy.

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Popular Vote vs. the Electoral College

Right now, there’s a well-organized, below-the-radar effort to render the Electoral College effectively useless. It’s called the National Popular Vote, and it would turn our presidential elections into a majority-rule affair. Would this be good or bad? Author, lawyer, and Electoral College expert Tara Ross explains.

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Study: 2015 a Record Year for Federal Regulation

Click here: 2015’s publication of federal government rules, proposed rules and notices amounted to 81,611 pages, higher than last year’s 77,687 pages and higher than the all-time high of 81,405 pages in 2010.
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Poll: Most Americans Support Government Surveillance

Click here: 56-percent of Americans favor the government conducting surveillance on Internet communications without a warrant. By party, Republicans (67 percent) and Democrats (55 percent) favor warrantless government surveillance.
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191 Million US Voter Registration Records Leaked In Mystery Database

Click here: 191 Million US Voter Registration Records Leaked In Mystery Database
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Google is tracking students as it sells more products to schools, privacy advocates warn

Click here: Google is tracking students as it sells more products to schools, privacy advocates warn

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15 Questions You Won’t Hear in a Democratic Debate

Click here: Will Democrats ever confront the truth?
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Why Women Are Buying More Guns

Click here: Gun control is down in the polls, and gun sales are up. Why? Because more women are packing heat.
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Federal Reserve: Increasing Minimum Wage will cost Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs

Click here: …[C]urrent minimum wages have directly reduced the number of jobs nationally by about 100,000 to 200,000, relative to the period just before the Great Recession.
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