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U.S. News & World Report names Iowa the Best State to Live in for 2018 Rankings

Click here: Infrastructure, Health Care, Education Lead Iowa to No. 1 Best States Ranking. There’s more to the Hawkeye State than corn and presidential primaries, the Best States rankings show.

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Should Public Unions be a Public Concern?

Public-sector unions have been gaming the political system for decades, bankrupting whole cities and plunging states into massive debt. How did this happen and can it be stopped? Akash Chougule, senior policy fellow for Americans for Prosperity, has the answers in this sobering 5-minute video from Prager University.

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Meth is back and killing more people than ever

Click here: Methamphetamine, a drug that lawmakers fought with some success in the 2000s, is back — and it’s more popular, plentiful and lethal than ever.

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Trump is RIGHT: Germany imports 70% of its gas from Russia in a controversial deal that has enriched Germany’s former Chancellor

Click here: Donald Trump is RIGHT: Germany imports 70 percent of its gas from Russia in a controversial deal that has enriched Germany’s former Chancellor (in what could be the REAL Russian collusion).
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So, Do You Think You’re Tolerant?

Are you tolerant? You probably think so. But who is tolerant in America today? Is it those on the left, or those on the right? In this short 4-minute video, Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report analyzes this question and shares his experience.

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Record 155,576,000 Employed in June; 10th Record for Trump

Click here: Record 155,576,000 Employed in June; 10th Record for Trump
Click here: Hispanic-Latino Unemployment Rate Hits Lowest Level on Record

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Democrats blast booming jobs report as ‘reckless’

Click here: Dems blast booming jobs report as ‘reckless’

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2018 WB July 4th Parade

Photo by Dan Hockett
Photo by Dan Hockett
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The Left needs to face reality: Trump is winning

Click here: The Democrats loathing for Trump is bone-deep and all-consuming. This is war and they take no prisoners. For most of today’s marchers, border policies offer a chance to vent. But they didn’t make a peep when Obama did exactly the same thing. If children were really their main concern, they could help the 23,000 New York City kids living in shelters. Or they could have attended the funeral of Lesandro Guzman-Feliz, the innocent Bronx teen hacked to death by a Dominican gang. Instead, they give in to Trump Derangement Syndrome, which causes them to immediately and absolutely adopt the opposite position of the president’s — facts and common sense be damned.

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The Amazing Life of Ulysses S. Grant

No American led a more eventful life than Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th President of the United States and the Union Army’s most celebrated general. Garry Adelman, director of history and education at the Civil War Trust, tells Grant’s amazing story in this inspiring 5-minute video.