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Students at Florida high school stage walkout in support of Second Amendment

Post author By Falcon
Post date April 2, 2018

Click here: About 75 students at a Central Florida high school walked out of class Friday as part of a protest in support of the Second Amendment. “I’m pro-Second Amendment,” Rockledge junior and protest organizer Anna Delaney. Students carried the American flag and signs that said “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” and “I support the right to bear arms.”

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Growth At Any Cost: Top Facebook Executive Defended Data Collection and Warned That Facebook Could Get People Killed

Post author By Falcon
Post date March 30, 2018

Click here: “We connect people. Period. That’s why all the work we do in growth is justified. All the questionable contact importing practices. All the subtle language that helps people stay searchable by friends. All of the work we do to bring more communication in. The work we will likely have to do in China some day. All of it,” Facebook VP Andrew “Boz” Bosworth wrote in the memo, “So we connect more people, that can be bad if they make it negative. Maybe it costs someone a life by exposing someone to bullies. Maybe someone dies in a terrorist attack coordinated on our tools. The ugly truth is that we believe in connecting people so deeply that anything that allows us to connect more people more often is *de facto* good. It is perhaps the only area where the metrics do tell the true story as far as we are concerned.”

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Will Witt is on location at the March for our Lives Los Angeles to find out what exactly is being protested, and what reforms attendees recommend. Check it out!

Post author By Falcon
Post date March 29, 2018

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Whistleblower: Facebook Able to Listen to You at Home and Work

Post author By Falcon
Post date March 28, 2018

Click here: Facebook Able to Listen to You at Home and Work, says Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower

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Blacks in Power Don’t Empower Blacks

Post author By Falcon
Post date March 26, 2018

Between 1970 and 2012, the number of black elected officials rose from fewer than 1,500 to more than 10,000. How has this affected the black community? Jason Riley of The Manhattan Institute answers the question in this short 5-minute video.

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Actors Cold Read Gun Facts Off of a Teleprompter

Post author By Falcon
Post date March 25, 2018

Click here: Actors at Casting Call Are Surprised by Real Gun Facts They’re Asked to Read

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Parkland Survivor: Don’t Use My Sister to Push Gun Control

Post author By Falcon
Post date March 25, 2018

Click here: A survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting is telling his classmates who support gun control to stop using the name of his sister to push their agenda. Patrick Petty’s sister Alaina was in the JROTC and would never have supported the gun control proposals that her classmates are eagerly pushing. Alaina was one of three JROTC students who died during the shooting.

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Walkout fallout: School districts hit with backlash over political activism

Post author By Falcon
Post date March 21, 2018

Click here: A week after the March 14 walkout, school officials are fielding complaints from parents outraged by the specter of their kids engaged in political protesting on school time, as well as reports of criminal mischief committed by teens who treated the event as a get-out-of-class-free card. “If they get away with this, they’ll be free to engage in any kind of political activity in the schools that they wish,” said Mr. Cleveland, a parent who has a third-grader in the Chicago Public Schools.

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Brazil’s Citizens want to undo Gun Control Laws

Post author By Falcon
Post date March 21, 2018

Click here: Brazil is world’s most murderous country and gun control is starting to lose its appeal. Brazil has the highest number of homicides of any nation in the world. Opposition to strict gun control laws rises as violence increases. Desperate Brazilians, helpless when confronted by armed criminals, want their country’s gun control laws reversed given that around 60,000 their citizens are killed each year. Polls show support for gun ownership gaining ground. In an election year, politicians are paying attention.

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Mueller Has Been Botching Investigations Since The Anthrax Attacks

Post author By Falcon
Post date March 21, 2018

Click here: Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the anthrax attacks following 9/11 — one of the most important of his career — did not go well, to say the least.