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Think taking ‘Selfies’ is new? Checkout the 1950s Polaroid Commercial

Here’s a live commercial from THE PERRY COMO SHOW in 1950 for the complete line of Polaroid cameras featuring spokesperson Don Ameche touting the merits of “instant photography.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=164&v=EBzTGv3oqmA

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Counselling services at college have doubled because millennials are having ’emotional crises over everyday life’

Click here: Counselling services at college have doubled because millennials are having ’emotional crises over everyday life’, psychologist says.
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Whole Milk is Better for You After All

Click here: Scientists who studied diet and health records for several thousand patients over ten years found people who consumed more milk fat had lower incidence of heart disease.

“What we have learned over the last decade is that certain foods that are high in fat seem to be beneficial.”

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The Tragedy of Gun Free Zones

Click here: “Schools became popular targets for young mass murderers in the mid 1990s, around the time that the Gun Free School Zones act of 1994 was enacted. This law and similar local laws were targeted at gang related violence, but had the unfortunate consequence of making schools a more attractive target for disturbed teens who wanted to end their own lives with a dramatic killing spree. “

In 1999, John Lott and William Landes published an extensive statistical study of multiple shooting incidents. They showed that mass shootings occur less often in areas where responsible citizens are allowed permits to carry weapons discretely.

Have you ever heard of a mass shooting in a police station, at a pistol range, or at a gun show? Suicidal mass murderers may be insane, but they are not necessarily stupid. They always select a soft target for their final acts of violence. This principle also
applies to many other types of crime.

Expecting a deranged, suicidal individual to honor a law prohibiting guns is sheer utopian fantasy. Creating and publicizing a gun free zone will, in fact, increase the chances of the kind of tragedy we seek to prevent.”

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West Burlington Homecoming Court 2015

Photo by Dan Hockett Front (l-r): Aubrey Schmitt, Regan Jones, Haley Snyder, Cailey McClellon. Back (l-r): Gradin Schroeder, Cameron Guihan, Chase Williams, Devon Rouse.
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Front (l-r): Aubrey Schmitt, Regan Jones, Haley Snyder, Cailey McClellon.
Back (l-r): Gradin Schroeder, Cameron Guihan, Chase Williams, Devon Rouse.
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Radical Islam: The Most Dangerous Ideology

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Trees Are the Answer

Everybody loves trees, so why are they so controversial? Greenpeace Founder Patrick Moore untangles the knotty issue of “deforestation” and shows how, from a purely environmental perspective, it is possible and desirable to grow more trees and use more wood products.

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The Truth about CO2

Global Warming activists will tell you that CO2 is bad and dangerous. The EPA has even classified it as a pollutant. But is it? Greenpeace Founder Patrick Moore provides some surprising facts about the benefits of CO2 that you won’t hear in the current debate.

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Are We Losing Our Liberty?

Was the Constitution written in a way that was designed to protect freedom and limit the government’s size? Has it been effective in doing that? And what’s the Supreme Court’s record when it comes to protecting our rights? Robert George, Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University, answers these questions and more.

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Super Moon & Lunar Eclipse Sunday

Photo by Dan Hockett A Super Moon appears between the towers of the Great River Bridge in Burlington Saturday night. A Full Super Moon and Lunar Eclipse will appear Sunday night starting at 7:11 p.m. and peaking at 9:47 p.m. A Super Moon is at its perigee and is 31,000-miles closer to earth than during the apogee of its orbit. The Super Moon will appear 14% larger and 30% brighter in the night sky.
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A Super Moon appears between the towers of the Great River Bridge in Burlington Saturday night. A Full Super Moon and Lunar Eclipse will appear Sunday night starting at 7:11 p.m. and peaking at 9:47 p.m. A Super Moon is at its perigee and is 31,000-miles closer to earth than during the apogee of its orbit. The Super Moon will appear 14% larger and 30% brighter in the night sky.