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45% of Americans pay no federal income tax

Click here: 45.3 percent of American households — roughly 77.5 million — pay no federal individual income tax.
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What is Crony Capitalism?

This election season there’s a lot of talk about corruption, about politicians being “bought and sold”, and about “crony capitalism”. What do those terms mean? Why should we care? Is there a way to reduce corruption and restore our trust in government? Author Jay Cost, staff writer at The Weekly Standard, answers these questions and proposes a solution that every society could benefit from.

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Hacker: ‘Entire banking system is fundamentally flawed – you’re giving access to your cash’

Click here: Hacker warns that security at our banks is woefully inadequate
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How Obama Denied Conservative Judges a Vote

Click here: Conservative nominees were blocked from 4 to 6 years 

Born in segregated Alabama, Janice Rogers Brown had been a leftist like Obama before becoming conservative. When Obama rose to denounce the respected African-American jurist for her political views it had been almost a full two years since President Bush had nominated her in the summer of ’03.

Obama complained that Judge Janice Rogers Brown, who had gone to segregated schools and become the first African-American woman on the California Supreme Court, was guilty of “an unyielding belief in an unfettered free market.”

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How the DNC Helps Clinton Buy Off Superdelegates

Click here: DNC opens floodgates to donations from special interests, the future of the Democrat party is auctioned to the highest bidder.
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Beware of Android virus that can WIPE your phone

Click here: Owners of Android phones have been warned to beware of powerful malware being spread by text message which can wipe handsets and read text messages.

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White students undergo weekly ‘deconstructing whiteness’ program at Northwestern University

Click here: The “6-part workshop series for undergraduate students who self-identify as white” launched in January and runs through March, according to the university’s website.
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WB Police Donate for Playground

Photo by Dan Hockett West Burlington Police Union kicks off the fundraiser for West Burlington Elementary School Playground equipment. Left to right: DARE Instructor – Ringo Covert, CWA Vice President – Grant Hillyer, WB School Board Vice President – Andy Crowner, CWA President – Kevin Glendening.
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West Burlington Police Union kicks off the fundraiser for West Burlington Elementary School Playground equipment at Monday night’s School Board meeting. Left to right: DARE Instructor – Ringo Covert, CWA Vice President – Grant Hillyer, WB School Board Vice President – Andy Crowner, CWA President – Kevin Glendening.
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A Progressive’s Guide to Political Correctness

Is there a point where the “P.C. Police” are satisfied? Are there ever “enough” rules governing the jokes we tell, the mascots of sports teams, or the symbols on city seals? Or should we want a society as non-offensive as the American college campus? George Will, Washington Post Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, imagines what an idyllic politically correct universe would look like.

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Bernie’s Socialist America would look like Socialist Venezuela

Click here: Socialist Venezuela suffers severe shortages of oil, diapers, staple products and now electricity.