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Williams: A Mayor’s Most Important Job (was Burlington on his mind?)

Click here: When World War II ended, Washington, DC’s population was about 900,000; today it’s about 700,000. In 1950, Baltimore’s population was almost 950,000; today it’s around 614,000. Detroit’s 1950 population was close to 1.85 million; today it’s down to 673,000. Camden, New Jersey’s 1950 population was nearly 125,000; today it has fallen to 77,000. St. Louis’ 1950 population was more than 856,000; today it’s less than 309,000. A similar story of population decline can be found in most of our formerly large and prosperous cities. For the rest of the story….
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Cops Are the Good Guys

Are cops perfect? Of course not. And no one should expect them to be. But every single day, under the most difficult conditions, the police protect us from the bad guys. In other words, they do their job and they do it well. Former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke makes it very clear: cops are not the problem in this short 5-minute video.

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Student Journalist Says Discipline Policies Weakened School Safety Before Parkland Shooting

Click here: Kenneth Preston, a 19-year-old student journalist who attends high school in Broward County, Florida, has done an in-depth investigation of the superintendent and school board. His report, released on Tuesday, says that Broward Superintendent Robert Runcie and the school district failed to spend over $100 million of federal money intended for school safety upgrades. Runcie once worked under former Obama Secretary of Education Arne Duncan in the Chicago Public Schools system.
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Quote of the Day

“Are you a mildly tech-literate politico horrified by the level of ignorance demonstrated by lawmakers gearing up to regulate online technology they don’t even begin to grasp? Cool. Now you have a tiny glimpse into a day in the life of a gun owner.” -SEAN DAVIS

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‘Silent Middle’ No Longer Will Be Ignored on Second Amendment

North Carolina Man Passionately Defends The Second Amendment. Mark Robinson made headlines this week when a video of him at a city council meeting went viral after he defended the Second Amendment and criticized politicians who want to take away guns from law-abiding citizens.

 

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Facebook on a secret mission asking hospitals to share patient medical data

Click here: Facebook has approached several major U.S. hospitals to share data about their patients.
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Should U.S. consider Mexico a Hostile Foreign Power?

Rather than fix its own serious problems, Mexico exports them to the United States. America is Mexico’s welfare state. Mexico a corrupt kleptocracy whose economy is based on oil, drugs, and remittances sent from its more functional northern neighbor (the USA). We should treat it like the hostile foreign power it is. Tucker explains in a short 3-minute video.

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Warning signs that were missed about Florida Shooter

CNN: Time Line of Shooter’s behavior raised red flags over and over, but no one intervened.
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One of the Greatest Ideas in History

Nowadays, many people, particularly those living in Western civilization, no longer regard their society as morally superior to any other. In this short 5-minute video, Dennis Prager lays out how this view does not spring from intellectual rigor, but from intellectual laziness.

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Gun Control Fail – London Murders now Exceed New York

Click here: London’s murder rate has overtaken New York City’s. In March, there were 22 murders in London mostly from stabbings. The murder epidemic continued Sunday when a man in his twenties was fatally stabbed after leaving a bar, marking the 12th person to be murdered in London in 19 days.  
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