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FBI Used Best Buy’s Geek Squad To Increase Secret Public Surveillance

Click here: FBI Used Best Buy’s Geek Squad To Increase Secret Public Surveillance
UPDATE: Records show deep ties between FBI and Best Buy computer technicians
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VIDEO: There is Only One Way Out of Poverty

What’s the best way to help people stuck in poverty get out of poverty? Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, shows where conservatives and progressives differ.

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Apple Mac security facts and fallacies

Click here: Fallacy #1- Macs don’t get viruses, Fallacy #2 – Macs are more secure than Windows, Fallacy #3 – Macs don’t need security software
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FBI undercover stings foil terrorist plots — but often plots of the agency’s own making

Click here: FBI undercover stings foil terrorist plots — but often plots of the agency’s own making

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Obituaries this week

Infant Aiden Scott Brown, Burlington, was stillborn on Friday, March 10, 2017

Mary E. Clark Smith, 91, Burlington formerly of Columbus Junction died Saturday, March 11, 2017

Virgil Kent Rust, 89, West Burlington, died Friday, March 10, 2017

Jim K. Manley, 75, Burlington, died Thursday, March 9, 2017

Tracey Denise Howe, 52, rural New London died Tuesday, March 14, 2017

Patricia Ann Sutty, 69, of Burlington, died Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Donald R. Oetken, 78, Burlington, died Wednesday, March 15, 2017

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Grier’s Railroad Station Restaurants were Struggling in the 1950s

Click here: Excerpt from 1964 U.S. Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit Tax Case:

Since 1907, Grier has been operating exclusively restaurants and other eating establishments, which until 1956 were all located in or adjacent to railroad stations. Beginning in 1953, Grier’s revenue and profits declined steadily with the reduced volume of railroad activity. Numerous business opportunities all related to restaurants or the feeding industry, but not connected with railroad operations, were explored. Between 1955 and 1959 Grier investigated some 75 restaurants and eating houses available for sale in various areas. Grier bought about ten of these.

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The Erosion of Liberty, Quote by Quote

Click here: Wonder what to make of all this wiretapping stuff? Here are some clues.
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Trump’s Massive Job Creation Boom

Click here: President Trump’s first full month in office brings massive employment boom as U.S. companies added whopping 298,000 new jobs in February.

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Why Trump suspects Obama bugged Trump Tower

Click here: Why Trump suspects Obama bugged Trump Tower
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VIDEO: There Is No Gender Wage Gap

Is there a gender wage gap? Are women paid less than men to do the same work? Christina Hoff Sommers, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, explains the data.