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Adam Carolla’s 2018 Commencement Address, ‘Don’t Make Things Worse’

Adam Carolla, comedian, social critic and host of the wildly popular Adam Carolla podcast, delivers the short 5-minute 2018 commencement address for PragerU. He offers some sage advice and makes a heart-felt request — as only Adam can.

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CNBC: Trump’s economy suddenly looks like it’s unstoppable

Click here: “May’s rebound in jobs together with yesterday’s report of solid income growth and the rise in consumer confidence points to the economy functioning very well,” the National Retail Federation’s chief economist, Jack Kleinhenz, said in a statement. “Solid fundamentals in the job market are encouraging for retail spending, as employment gains generate additional income for consumers and consequently increase spending.”

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Tens of Thousands Flee Illinois over Taxes

Will citizens now flee Burlington over high property taxes too?

Click here: Illinois is losing more citizens every year than nearly every other state. The biggest reason is because the state is simply taxing them out of their homes. Even the Chicago Tribune’s editorial board says it no longer makes any sense to live in Illinois. A Chicago couple who moved out of state said the move gave them back an amazing 25 percent of their income that would no longer be lost to property taxes. So, how is the Illinois state’s legislature reacting to the tens of thousands of constituents leaving every year over high taxes? Well, legislators are proposing a massive tax hike, naturally.

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Dispelling Claims by Farm Subsidy Proponents

Click here: Agricultural special interests try to make it sound as though touching even one farm subsidy—regardless of how unreasonable the subsidy is—will be the end of agriculture as we know it. Using scare tactics, they will assert wild claims without any support, or they will cherry-pick data to provide a misleading picture. For example, they often point to declines from record or near-record highs. The following provides answers to some common claims made by the special interests.
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Walt Disney: American Dreamer

Walt Disney was the twentieth century’s prime example of American ingenuity. How did he do it? In this video, Glenn Beck, best-selling author and host of The Glenn Beck Program, explains in a short 5-minute video how Disney became a household name, and how he proved that in America, the only limit to your ambition is your own imagination.

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WATCH What Happens When Actors Cold Read the Facts On Feminism

The sources for facts read in the video can be found, with links, in the description of the posted video (click here).

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The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code

Click here: Bill Benter did the impossible: He wrote an algorithm that couldn’t lose at the track. Close to a billion dollars later, he tells his story for the first time.

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Bernie Take Notice! In Socialist Venezuela inflation quadruples to 18,000% in two months

Click here: Socialist Venezuela’s inflation rate, already by far the world’s highest, spiked from 4,966 percent to nearly 18,000 percent in just March and April — a trend that, if it continues, could push the country’s annual rate to more than 100,000 percent by year’s end, economists say. Bernie Sanders and his supporters should be put on notice of this – another failure in the long line of socialist failures.

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Siemens awarded high-efficiency steam turbine modernization and upgrade project in China

Click here: “We are glad to bring proven technologies and experience in steam turbine modernization and upgrades to China for making the thermal power of the country more efficient and contribute to the emission reduction targets set by the government,” said Gery Nocker, Executive Vice President of Siemens Ltd., China and General Manager of the Power Generation Services Division.
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Socialist Finland’s Guaranteed Basic Income Falls Flat

Click here: Socialist Finland’s guaranteed basic income trial falls flat as too expensive.
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