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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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Obituaries this week

Mark Rindom Moore, 56, Burlington, formerly Orlando, FL died Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Frances M. Lundell,  88, Burlington, died Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Ruth E. Danniel, 93, West Burlington, died Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Tamra Lynn “Tammy” Floyd, 56, Burlington, died Friday, December 25, 2015

Pamela Denise Juarez, 55, Burlington, died Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Mary H. Brandstetter, 89, West Burlington, died Friday, December 25, 2015

Clifton Eugene “Harky” Harkness, 82, Burlington, died Sunday, December 27, 2015

George Elmer Taeger, 85, West Burlington, died Monday, December 28, 2015

Henry E. “Jack” Forquer Sr., 65, Gorin, Missouri died Monday, December 28, 2015

Gary L. Martin, 71, Burlington, died Sunday, Dec. 27, 2015

Leslie Keith Fisher, 87, Burlington, died Monday, December 28, 2015

Clifford Leroy Sheppard, 68, Burlington, died Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Alice Clark Naylor, 88, Burlington, died Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Mary Lou Schneiderman, 91, Burlington, died Wednesday, December 30, 2015

 

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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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SE Iowa Rankings on Iowa School Report Card

Click here: Ranking Results for Public Schools in Des Moines, Lee and Van Buren Counties
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Israel: The World’s Most Moral Army

Is the Israeli military a paragon of morality and wartime ethics? Or is it an oppressive force that targets innocent Palestinian civilians and commits war crimes as a matter of policy? Colonel Richard Kemp, who was the commander of British Forces in Afghanistan, was in Israel during its war against Hamas in 2014, and analyzes whether Israel’s military is ethical, evil, or somewhere in between.