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Here’s Why China Now Owns Toyota, Ford, GM, and Tesla

“Here’s Why China Now Owns Ford, GM, Tesla and Toyota”, says Scotty Kilmer, an auto mechanic for the last 54 years.
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West Burlington Students present “Leaving Iowa” comedy

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West Burlington’s Sage Eggar, Jenna Schnellbacher, Zach Hite run through the script of “Leaving Iowa”, a comedy play by Tim Clue and Spike Manton, during the final dress rehearsal at WBAHS Auditorium Thursday evening. The students performed before a live audience, Friday and Saturday, March 25th and 26th, 2022.
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West Burlington’s Jenna Schnellbacher, Sage Eggar, Lauren Allen, and Zach Hite run through the script of “Leaving Iowa”, comedy play by Tim Clue and Spike Manton, during the final dress rehearsal at WBAHS Auditorium Thursday evening. The students performed before a live audience, Friday and Saturday, March 25th and 26th, 2022.
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West Burlington’s Nicole Ferguson and Zach Hite run through the script of “Leaving Iowa”, comedy play by Tim Clue and Spike Manton, during the final dress rehearsal at WBAHS Auditorium Thursday evening. The students performed before a live audience, Friday and Saturday, March 25th and 26th, 2022.
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West Burlington’s Zach Hite, Elijah Bradley, and Kaylee Kramer run through the script of “Leaving Iowa”, comedy play by Tim Clue and Spike Manton, during the final dress rehearsal at WBAHS Auditorium Thursday evening. The students performed before a live audience, Friday and Saturday, March 25th and 26th, 2022.
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WBAHS presents ‘Legally Blonde, the Musical’

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Raine Messamaker (center) plays the lead role of Elle Woods in West Burlington High School’s presentation of ‘Legally Blonde, the Musical’ Friday night in West Burlington.
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Raine Messamaker (left) plays the role of Elle Woods and Zach Hite (right) plays Emmett Forrest in West Burlington High School’s presentation of ‘Legally Blonde, the Musical’ Friday night in West Burlington.
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Natania Shaver (left) plays the role of Paulette and Justin Barte plays Kyle the UPS guy in West Burlington High School’s presentation of ‘Legally Blonde, the Musical’ Friday night in West Burlington.
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Natalie Rheinschmidt (left) plays the role of Vivienne Kensington and Gabe Zurita (right) plays Warner Huntington III in West Burlington High School’s presentation of ‘Legally Blonde, the Musical’ Friday night in West Burlington.
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Unbelievable Video of Derecho Hitting Iowa One Year Ago

This is the 2020 Aug. 10, 2020 Iowa Derecho as it happened in real time. Follow along with KGAN-TV meteorologists, area storm chasers, police officers and citizens caught up in the most devastating thunderstorm in US history.
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The Great Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell is an economist, a historian, a philosopher, and one of the greatest social theorists America has ever produced. His name is Thomas Sowell, and he might be the most important scholar you’ve never heard of. Jason Riley, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, tells his inspiring story in this short 5-minute video.
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Big Business Loves Big Government

“When government gets bigger, whether it’s through spending or taxes or regulation … big business benefits,” Tim Carney of the Washington Examiner explains.

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos wants government to impose a $15 minimum wage. “The problem is [Bezos] doesn’t want to just pay his own workers $15 [but] to outlaw other business models … smaller businesses that might not be as efficient,” Carney says.

Amazon can afford an army of warehouse robots, but mom and pop shops must pay actual people.

If they can’t afford $15, they go out of business. Carney adds: “Capitalism is a cutthroat thing, but this isn’t capitalism. When you turn to government to regulate your competitors out of business, we need to say, ‘No, this is wrong!'”

The video above includes more examples of how big business partners with big government to defeat smaller competitors.

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It’s Official !! WBAHS Class of 2021

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West Burlington Arnold High School’s Class of 2021 celebrates at the end of commencement ceremonies Sunday afternoon at West Burlington.
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West Burlington Arnold High School Class of 2021

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West Burlington Arnold High School Graduating Class of 2021 poses in front of the High School Friday morning in West Burlington.
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Liberty Winning?

“Thanks to property rights and free markets, humanity has achieved prosperity and freedom that our ancestors hardly dreamed about. For most of history, kings and tyrants ruled. They took and kept slaves, confiscated property, and waged decades-long wars.”
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Ted Nugent tests positive for COVID-19 after calling pandemic a ‘scam’

“I have had flu symptoms for the last 10 days and I thought I was dying…” said the 72-year old Ted Nugent.