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Think taking ‘Selfies’ is new? Checkout the 1950s Polaroid Commercial

Post author By Falcon
Post date October 12, 2015

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.”

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Counselling services at college have doubled because millennials are having ’emotional crises over everyday life’

Post author By Falcon
Post date October 12, 2015

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

Post author By Falcon
Post date October 11, 2015

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”.

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

Post author By Falcon
Post date October 11, 2015

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

Post author By Falcon
Post date October 8, 2015

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

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The Tragedy of Gun Free Zones

Post author By Falcon
Post date October 7, 2015

Click here: “Schools became popular targets for young mass murderers in the mid 1990s, around the time that the Gun Free School Zones act of 1994 was enacted. This law and similar local laws were targeted at gang related violence, but had the unfortunate consequence of making schools a more attractive target for disturbed teens who wanted to end their own lives with a dramatic killing spree. “

In 1999, John Lott and William Landes published an extensive statistical study of multiple shooting incidents. They showed that mass shootings occur less often in areas where responsible citizens are allowed permits to carry weapons discretely.

Have you ever heard of a mass shooting in a police station, at a pistol range, or at a gun show? Suicidal mass murderers may be insane, but they are not necessarily stupid. They always select a soft target for their final acts of violence. This principle also
applies to many other types of crime.

Expecting a deranged, suicidal individual to honor a law prohibiting guns is sheer utopian fantasy. Creating and publicizing a gun free zone will, in fact, increase the chances of the kind of tragedy we seek to prevent.”

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Radical Islam: The Most Dangerous Ideology

Post author By Falcon
Post date October 4, 2015

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Report: Chamber of Commerce to Spend $100 Million to Destroy Tea Party

Post author By Falcon
Post date October 1, 2015

Click here: “The U.S. Chamber of Commerce will literally double down in its efforts to crush the Tea Party to get legislation–like a comprehensive amnesty bill and the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank–that it covets.”

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Gallup: Half in U.S. Say Government Is an Immediate Threat

Post author By Falcon
Post date September 21, 2015

Click here: Almost half of Americans, 49%, say the federal government poses “an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens”

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Gallup: 75% of Americans See Widespread Government Corruption

Post author By Falcon
Post date September 20, 2015

Click here: Three in four Americans (75%) last year perceived corruption as widespread in the country’s government.