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Campaign Finance Reform Corrupts

What corrupts politics more? Millionaires and billionaires? Or the rules that intend to limit the influence of wealthy donors? George Will, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Washington Post, explains who designed campaign finance reform and why Congress’s solution to the problem may actually be the bigger problem.

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Cuba — A Failed Experiment

Click here: Cuba, after 50 years of total government economic controls, reminds us of that old saying: “Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth – but socialism is the equal distribution of poverty.”
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Video Shows a Photo Shoot on the Moon

Click here for full story: This Video Shows a Photo Shoot on the Moon

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Who Killed the Liberal Arts?

What in the world happened to the liberal arts? A degree in the humanities used to transmit the knowledge and wisdom imbued in the works of great Western artists, writers, musicians and thinkers like Shakespeare and Mozart. But today, that same degree stresses Western racism, sexism, imperialism, and other ills and sins that reinforce a sense of victimhood and narcissism. So, what happened? Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute explains.

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GAO: 1.4 Million Kids Ditch Michelle Obama’s School Lunch Program

Click here: GAO: 1.4 Million Kids Ditch Michelle Obama’s School Lunch Program
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The Toyota Effect – Saving Sight

Oscar-nominated director Kief Davidson visits the busy eye clinic at Harbor-UCLA hospital, where patients were going blind waiting for medical services. He takes a look at the results of the hospital’s partnership with Toyota, quite literally through the failing eyes of Liseth, a diabetic patient hoping for a positive outcome.

 

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Will Obama’s New Guidelines Actually Reduce Testing in Schools? Probably Not Much

Click here: Obama’s guidelines will do “very little” to reduce excessive testing.

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Can We Rely on Wind and Solar Energy?

Is “green” energy, particularly wind and solar energy, the solution to our climate and energy problems?

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Iowa’s initiative promotes college as minimum

Click here: Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad’s “Future Ready Iowa” goal is 70 percent of Iowans in the workforce to have education or training beyond high school by 2025
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Math, reading scores slip for nation’s school kids

Click here: Math, reading scores slip for nation’s school kids