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191 Million US Voter Registration Records Leaked In Mystery Database

Click here: 191 Million US Voter Registration Records Leaked In Mystery Database
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Google is tracking students as it sells more products to schools, privacy advocates warn

Click here: Google is tracking students as it sells more products to schools, privacy advocates warn

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15 Questions You Won’t Hear in a Democratic Debate

Click here: Will Democrats ever confront the truth?
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Why Women Are Buying More Guns

Click here: Gun control is down in the polls, and gun sales are up. Why? Because more women are packing heat.
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Federal Reserve: Increasing Minimum Wage will cost Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs

Click here: …[C]urrent minimum wages have directly reduced the number of jobs nationally by about 100,000 to 200,000, relative to the period just before the Great Recession.
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SE Iowa Rankings on Iowa School Report Card

Click here: Ranking Results for Public Schools in Des Moines, Lee and Van Buren Counties
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NASA’s Climate change shock: Burning fossil fuels ‘COOLS planet’

Click here: BURNING fossil fuels and cutting down trees causes global COOLING, a new NASA study has found.
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How Do You Judge America?

Is the United States an exceptional country that has played a uniquely good role in history? Or is it a typical country, perhaps even a uniquely bad one considering the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow? On this, the Left and Right do not agree.

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NOAA Relies On ‘Compromised’ Thermometers That Inflate US Warming Trend

Click here: “The majority of weather stations used by NOAA to detect climate change temperature signal have been compromised by encroachment of artificial surfaces like concrete, asphalt, and heat sources like air conditioner exhausts,” Anthony Watts, a seasoned meteorologist and lead author of the study, said in a statement Thursday.

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WBHS Hosts ‘Bridges Out Of Poverty’

Photo by Dan Hockett Jim Ott speaks in front of 150 area academic, government, and business representatives about Bridges Out of Poverty program Wednesday at West Burlington High School.
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Jim Ott speaks in front of 150 area academic, government, and business representatives about Bridges Out of Poverty program Wednesday at West Burlington High School.