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Study: More Than Two-Thirds of Patients on Anti-Depressants Not Depressed

Click here: More Than Two-Thirds of Patients on Anti-Depressants Not Depressed
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Iowa’s HS Graduation Rate Tops in Nation

Click here: Why Iowa’s graduation rate is so much higher than California’s
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US High School drops Michelle Obama’s lunch program

Click here: Hundreds of students return to the cafeteria after Montana high school relinquishes $120,000 in federal funding and drops Michelle Obama’s lunch program
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West Burlington City Council & Mayor Forum

Click here: To watch West Burlington City Council & Mayor Forum
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Does Free Speech Offend You?

Should offensive speech be banned? Where should we, as a society, draw the line where permitted speech is on one side, and forbidden speech is on the other? Should we even have that line? And should free speech be limited by things like trigger warnings and punishments for microaggressions? Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, answers these questions and more.

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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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Iowa Doctor Calls for an End to Gun Free Zones

Click here: This simple but profound truth has been proven time after time. “Gun free zones” have become “Hunting preserves for psychopathic murders”. It is time for the killing to stop. End “gun free zones”.

Gun Free Zone Except Bad Guys

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Nearly 1,000 People Move From Blue States to Red States Every Day. Here’s Why.

Click here: “Progressives” love to talk about how their policies will create a worker’s paradise, but then why is it that day after day, month after month, year after year, people are fleeing liberal blue states for conservative red states?

I’ve never met a Democrat who could come up with even a semi-plausible explanation for why families and businesses are hightailing it out of blue states. They are leaving states with high minimum wages, pro-union work rules, high taxes on the rich, generous welfare benefits, expansive regulations to “help” workers, green energy policies, etc. People are voting with their feet against these liberal policies.

The underlying trend is unmistakable: Liberal blue states are economic dinosaurs. Will they change their ways before they go the way of Detroit and become extinct?

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Toyota trucks are popular with terrorists — here’s why

Click here: These Toyota trucks are popular with terrorists — here’s why

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