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What Does Diversity Have to Do with Science?

Why would anyone care about the race of your doctor, or the gender of the person who built the bridge you drive across? The latest trend across STEM fields claims you should. Heather Mac Donald, Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of The Diversity Delusion, explains where these destructive ideas are coming from.

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Where Iowa Lottery Money Goes

Click here: Iowa Lottery proceeds have three main purposes. Most goes in to the state general fund. With some support for veterans and backing for the Vision Iowa program.


Note: The amounts listed above are from fiscal year 1986 through the end of fiscal year 2018, with the exception of the Iowa Veterans Trust Fund, which is current for FY 2019.
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World War I: The War That Changed Everything

Think of all the horrors of the 20th Century: The Holocaust. The Bolshevik Revolution. The Cold War. Were it not for the assassination of one Austro-Hungarian archduke in 1914, none of those events would have ever happened. Historian and author Andrew Roberts explains in this short 5-minute video.

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Fake fingerprints could hack into a third of smartphones

Click here: Researchers at New York University and the Michigan State University have developed images of fingerprints that have the potential to unlock devices.

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How serious is the government about tax collection?

Click here: IRS Has 4,487 Guns and 5-million Rounds of Ammunition

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An inconvenient truth: The vast majority of Catholic Abuse was perpetrated by homosexuals.

Click here: The sexual abuse scandal that rocked the Catholic Church in recent days marked the culmination of seven decades of horrendous wrongdoing by hundreds of priests. But the media would rather ignore one particularly inconvenient truth: The vast majority of the crime was perpetrated by homosexuals.

Monsignor Charles Pope, a Catholic priest writing of previous abuse scandals in the National Catholic Register, makes the case:

It is evident that the vast majority of the cases involving both the sexual abuse of minors and of adults involve male victims. The 2004 John Jay Report (The Nature and Scope of the Problem of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests and Deacons in the United States), which was commissioned by the U.S. bishops themselves, found that 81 percent of the victims were male and 78 percent of all victims were post-pubescent. … So, the large majority of cases involved attraction by homosexuals to young men who, though legally minors, were physically and sexually mature males, not little children. This is not pedophilia. It is homosexual attraction.

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Why Obamacare Doesn’t Work As Promised

President Obama made many promises to the American people regarding health care reform — but the Affordable Care Act was destined to fail. Why? Lanhee Chen of the Hoover Institute explains in this short 5-minute video why government-run health care is not the answer.

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NY Times: Democrats Imitated Russian Tactics in Senate Race

Click here: “As Russia’s online election machinations came to light last year, a group of Democratic tech experts decided to try out similarly deceptive tactics in the fiercely contested Alabama Senate race, according to people familiar with the effort and a report on its results.”

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Record 156,795,000 Americans Employed, 13th Record-Breaker Under Trump

Click here: The number of employed Americans once again reached an all-time high of 156,795,000, the 13th record since Donald Trump became president.

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Who Are the Most Powerful People in America?

The genius of America is that it was set up as a representative government, but increasingly, Americans are ruled over by leaders who are unelected, and very powerful. Columbia Law Professor Philip Hamburger unmasks the people who are really ruling our lives in this short 5-minute video.