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Poll: Obama Worst President Since WWII

Click here: Hands down Obama is the worst president since WWII: poll

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Obitaries this week

Oscar R. Cline, 83, Burlington died Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Edward McDade, 85, Burlington, died Saturday, July 5, 2014

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Land of the free? Not so much.

Gallup: Americans’ sense of freedom drops
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NOAA Quietly Reinstates July 1936 As The Hottest Month On Record

Click here: NOAA Quietly Reinstates July 1936 As The Hottest Month On Record (NOT July 2012).

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Army’s Apache under assault: PC police call helicopter’s name racist

Click here: Veterans aren’t happy with a recent op-ed by the Washington Post, which charged that the Apache, Comanche, Chinook, Lakota, Cheyenne and Kiowa military vehicles were a “greater symbolic injustice” than the NFL’s Washington Redskins’ name.

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Cooke: Hypermilitarized police departments are more dangerous than whatever they fight.

Click here: Historians looking back at this period in America’s development will consider it to be profoundly odd that at the exact moment when violent crime hit a 50-year low, the nation’s police departments began to gear up as if the country were expecting invasion — and, on occasion, to behave as if one were underway.

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Armstrong Warns Civil Unrest Is Rising Everywhere: “This Won’t End Pretty”

Click here: This is not going to end pretty. The question is when does society wake up? Just how high will this price be that we have to pay? They (the politicians) will blame the rich and the idiots will cheer – get them. What will happen when there is no more wealth to hunt? We end up with a communist state by default – no wealth, just career politicians who blame everyone but themselves.

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Study: All Employment Growth Since 2000 Went to Immigrants

Study: All Employment Growth Since 2000 Went to Immigrants

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Poll: 53% Of Americans Don’t Believe In Man-Made Global Warming

Pew Research Center Poll: 53% Of Americans Don’t Believe In Man-Made Global Warming

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Lois Lerner Targeted Sen. Chuck Grassley for IRS Audit

Emails: IRS official sought audit of Iowa GOP senator Chuck Grassley