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Census confirms 63% of ‘non-citizens’ on welfare

Click here: A Census Bureau finding shows 63% of non-citizens are using a welfare program, and it grows to 70% for those here 10 years or more, confirming another concern that once immigrants tap into welfare, they don’t get off it.
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GM should repay U.S. taxpayers for bailout

Click here: $11.2 billion in taxpayer money lost saving the company

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2018 Christmas Decorations at the White House

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Politics and Sports: Keep Your Hands Off My Football

Sports has a unique ability to unite our communities and our nation. Until recently, that is. How did sports get so politicized? Clay Travis, host of Outkick the Show, tackles the country’s cultural divide and its effect on our favorite pastime in this short 5-minute video.

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How gun-free zones invite mass shootings

Click here: Of the 97 countries where we identified mass public shootings, the U.S. ranks 64th per capita in its rate of attacks and 65th in fatalities. Major European countries, such as Norway, Finland, France, Switzerland and Russia, all have at least 25 percent higher per capita murder rates from mass public shootings.While Americans are rightly concerned by the increased frequency and severity of mass public shootings, the rest of the world is experiencing much larger increases in per capita rates of attack. The frequency of foreign mass public shootings since 1998 has grown 291 percent faster than in the U.S.
-John R. Lott Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center

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We Just Had Two Years Of Record-Breaking Global Cooling (But Don’t Tell Anyone)

Click here: NASA data show that global temperatures dropped sharply over the past two years. Not that you’d know it, since that wasn’t deemed news. Does that make NASA a global warming denier? Aaron Brown looked at the official NASA global temperature data and noticed something surprising. From February 2016 to February 2018, “global average temperatures dropped by 0.56 degrees Celsius.” That, he notes, is the biggest two-year drop in the past century. “The 2016-2018 Big Chill,” he writes, “was composed of two Little Chills, the biggest five month drop ever (February to June 2016) and the fourth biggest (February to June 2017). A similar event from February to June 2018 would bring global average temperatures below the 1980s average.”

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Lincoln and Thanksgiving: The Origin of an American Holiday

The very first Thanksgiving happened almost 400 years ago – long before the nation was born. How did it evolve into America’s quintessential national holiday? Credit largely goes to two people – one, a name you know; the other, you’ve probably never heard – but should. Melanie Kirkpatrick, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, gives us the run-down on how a harvest party between Pilgrims and Indians became our oldest national tradition in this short 5-minute video.

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NASA: Mini ice age is on the way due to lack of sunspots and it’s going to be very cold

Click here: Humanity is facing a long, cold winter which could see temperatures across the planet plunge to depressing lows. That’s the warning from a NASA scientist who fears sunspot activity on the surface of our star has dropped so low that it could herald the arrival of a uniquely grim mini Ice Age.
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Error upends major ocean warming study

Click here: Researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Princeton University had to walk back their findings published last month that mistakenly showed oceans have been heating up dramatically faster than previously thought as a result of climate change.

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Video shows migrant caravan is ‘organized, well-funded’ and 95% adult males.

Ami Horowitz traveled to Mexico for a firsthand look at the migrant caravan from Central America. Horowitz shows the reality of the caravan in this short 4-minute video.