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Actors Cold Read Gun Facts Off of a Teleprompter

Post author By Falcon
Post date March 25, 2018

Click here: Actors at Casting Call Are Surprised by Real Gun Facts They’re Asked to Read

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Parkland Survivor: Don’t Use My Sister to Push Gun Control

Post author By Falcon
Post date March 25, 2018

Click here: A survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting is telling his classmates who support gun control to stop using the name of his sister to push their agenda. Patrick Petty’s sister Alaina was in the JROTC and would never have supported the gun control proposals that her classmates are eagerly pushing. Alaina was one of three JROTC students who died during the shooting.

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Why The Paris Climate Accord is Such a Fraud

Post author By Falcon
Post date March 24, 2018

President Trump is right to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement! The deal isn’t worth the paper it is written on.

But many politicians and much of the media are horrified. Al Gore called pulling out of the Paris Agreement a “reckless and indefensible decision.” Former President Obama said: “This administration joins a handful of nations that reject the future.” Really? Have they read the agreement?

John Stossel explains why in a short 4-minute video.

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Growing questions about CNN’s airport monopoly as network veers left

Post author By Falcon
Post date March 24, 2018

Click here: “Airports feel like a lesser version of hell with dirty seats, overpriced food and propaganda posing as news on CNN.” CNN pays airports to leave the network on, and many travel hubs even have agreements in which CNN pays for their TVs and infrastructure. “CNN Airport covers the costs related to the TVs and related infrastructure, provides programming specifically geared for airports, and pays us for the opportunity to be in our facility.”

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Restored WB Victory Bell Comes Home

Post author By Falcon
Post date March 23, 2018

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West Burlington Boy Scout, Daniel Crooks, presented West Burlington High School’s restored Victory Bell during a presentation Wednesday night in West Burlington. Crooks undertook the 5-month long restoration project to restore the cracked bell as a way to help the school and earn an Eagle Scout badge at the same time. Crooks will become an Eagle Scout in April.

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State and Local Income, Sales and Property Taxes All Hit Records in 2017

Post author By Falcon
Post date March 23, 2018

Click here: Real state and local income, sales and property taxes all hit records in 2017, according to data released this week by the Census Bureau.

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Walkout fallout: School districts hit with backlash over political activism

Post author By Falcon
Post date March 21, 2018

Click here: A week after the March 14 walkout, school officials are fielding complaints from parents outraged by the specter of their kids engaged in political protesting on school time, as well as reports of criminal mischief committed by teens who treated the event as a get-out-of-class-free card. “If they get away with this, they’ll be free to engage in any kind of political activity in the schools that they wish,” said Mr. Cleveland, a parent who has a third-grader in the Chicago Public Schools.

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Brazil’s Citizens want to undo Gun Control Laws

Post author By Falcon
Post date March 21, 2018

Click here: Brazil is world’s most murderous country and gun control is starting to lose its appeal. Brazil has the highest number of homicides of any nation in the world. Opposition to strict gun control laws rises as violence increases. Desperate Brazilians, helpless when confronted by armed criminals, want their country’s gun control laws reversed given that around 60,000 their citizens are killed each year. Polls show support for gun ownership gaining ground. In an election year, politicians are paying attention.

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Mueller Has Been Botching Investigations Since The Anthrax Attacks

Post author By Falcon
Post date March 21, 2018

Click here: Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the anthrax attacks following 9/11 — one of the most important of his career — did not go well, to say the least.

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Let Kids Be Kids

Post author By Falcon
Post date March 21, 2018

Lenore Skenazy, President of Let Grow, encourages parents to do what parents have always done: follow basic safety rules, and then let their kids be kids. See what she means in a short 5-minute video.