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Vaccine to conquer obesity could become reality after scientists find virus linked to weight gain

Click here: A vaccine to stop you getting fat is drawing closer after scientists found compelling evidence linking obesity to an infectious virus. Adenovirus-36 is found four times more often among the obese than in patients of a healthy weight.
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Quote of the Day…

“Donald Trump did not create distrust of the media, distrust of the media helped create Donald Trump.”  -Mollie Hemingway
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Not a spare seat to be found as President Donald Trump addresses a packed U.S. Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa June 21, 2017.
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In Socialist Venezuela running water comes once a month and cash machines are empty

Click here: Venezuela president Maduro finally admits his socialist economic policies have ‘FAILED’.

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Hungry Venezuelans slaughter Donkey herds for food

Click here: Hungry citizens in socialist Venezuela slaughter Donkey herds for food (how ironic the symbol for the Democrat party, that supports socialism, is the donkey).
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John Stossel vs. Noam Chomsky on Venezuela

In this short 4-minute video John Stossel has an exchange with famed M.I.T. linguist Noam Chomsky, who once praised former Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez socialist policies.

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The Strange Death of Comedy

Tell a joke now and who knows who you might offend? Identity politics is taking the fun out of just about everything. This is – no fooling – a very serious problem. Actor/Comedian Owen Benjamin explains in this short 4-minute video why and what needs to be done about it.

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Noncitizens across U.S. find it easy to register to vote, cast ballots

Click here: Russian national surprised to be on voter rolls in San Francisco
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Democrat Leaders embrace noncitizen voting: ‘I think this is another good step forward’

Click here: Forget the Russian government — foreign nationals are increasingly gaining the ability to influence American elections more directly. They’re being granted the right to vote. From Boston, where the city council is debating the move, to San Francisco, where noncitizens gained the right earlier this month in school-board elections, jurisdictions are looking to expand the boundaries of the electorate beyond its citizens.

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More and More of What We Do Depends on Government Permission. That’s not a recipe for a free country.

Click here: The granting or withholding of that approval is a powerful lever over our lives. Do you have permit for that? If you want to keep that permit, you’d better do as you’re told. Increasingly, that’s the theme of modern America. More and more of what we do is dependent on permission from the government. That permission, unsurprisingly, is contingent on keeping government officials happy. Rub those officials the wrong way and they’ll strip you of permission to travel the roads, leave the country, or even make a living.
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Study: TV’s War Against Trump’s Immigration Enforcement Agenda

Click here: During the 18 months of the Trump presidency, immigration has received more airtime on the three broadcast evening news shows than any other policy topic. The networks’ coverage has been relentlessly hostile to the administration (92% negative, just 8% positive). The next-most-covered topic, the nuclear confrontation with North Korea, garnered 719 minutes of airtime, or about 4 1/2 fewer hours of coverage than immigration..