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A Victory for the American People Against the Export-Import Bank

Click here: Created by executive order during the height of the Great Depression, the Export-Import Bank has been used as a tool to reward politically connected elites, both in the United States and abroad, for decades.
84 percent of the bank’s subsidy and loan-guarantee deals exceeded $10 million, and the vast majority were given to the wealthiest, most well-connected businesses that should have no problem acquiring financing on the open market.
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Gun sales surge among gays, lesbians after Orlando shooting

Click here: Gun sales surge among gays, lesbians after Orlando shooting
Click here: West Hollywood Inundated With AMAZING Pro-Gun, Pro-Gay Posters
Click here: AR-15’s Flying Off Shelves at $500 a Pop
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Falcons Top Hawks, 6-5

Photo by Dan Hockett West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Morgan Flowers slides safe to third beating the throw to Central Lee Third Baseman Daly Brisby (8) Tuesday night in West Burlington. WBND defeated Central Lee, 6-5.
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West Burlington – Notre Dame’s Morgan Flowers slides safe to third beating the throw to Central Lee Third Baseman Daly Brisby (8) Tuesday night in West Burlington. WBND defeated Central Lee, 6-5.
Photo by Dan Hockett Central Lee’s Makenna Hall (9) scores at the plate beating the tag by West Burlington – Notre Dame Catcher Lexy Davis Tuesday night in West Burlington. WBND defeated Central Lee, 6-5.
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Central Lee’s Makenna Hall (9) scores at the plate beating the tag by West Burlington – Notre Dame Catcher Lexy Davis Tuesday night in West Burlington. WBND defeated Central Lee, 6-5.
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Pew Poll: Newspaper declines accelerate

Click here: Newspaper industry lost 7 percent of daily circulation in 2015 and 8 percent of ad revenues.
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Black Fathers Matter

Which poses a bigger threat to black communities: Racism? Or the absence of fathers? Drawing on a sea of official data and his own upbringing, talk-show host Larry Elder shows just how important black fathers are in turning boys into responsible and happy men–and how their absence has had a tragic impact on millions of black Americans.

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Ex-wife’s bombshell: Orlando Killer, her ex-husband, WAS Gay!

Click here: Ex-wife of Orlando mass killer Omar Mateen said Monday that he was homosexual.  He also frequented the gay nightclub where he staged the nation’s worst massacre.
A male former college classmate of Omar Mateen said he had been asked out romantically by the mass killer, who was a regular at the Pulse nightclub. The classmate went on to tell the newspaper he thought the killer, who swore allegiance to ISIS before killing 49 at the gay nightclub, was gay and in the closet.

 

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Investigation of Orlando mosque tied to Killer blocked by Hillary’s State Department

Click here: Investigation of Orlando mosque tied to Killer was blocked by Hillary’s State Department
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Obituaries this week

Nancy Jo Billings, 59, Burlington, died Monday, June 13, 2016

Victor L. “Brownie” Brown, 89, Burlington died Friday, June 10, 2016

Amy Lynn Ellison, 58, Burlington, died Monday, June 13, 2016

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High cholesterol ‘does not cause heart disease’ new research finds

Click here: High cholesterol ‘does not cause heart disease’ new research finds, so treating with statins a ‘waste of time’
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Falcons Fall to Wapello, 5-1

Photo by Dan Hockett West Burlington Pitcher Tate Snodgrass sends one to the plate against Wapello in the West Burlington Tourney Saturday afternoon in West Burlington. Wapello defeated West Burlington, 5-1.
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West Burlington Pitcher Tate Snodgrass sends one to the plate against Wapello in the West Burlington Tourney Saturday afternoon in West Burlington. Wapello defeated West Burlington, 5-1.
Photo by Dan Hockett West Burlington’s Masin Shullaw rounds the bases after hitting a homerun as the first batter against Wapello in the West Burlington Tourney Saturday afternoon in West Burlington. Wapello defeated West Burlington, 5-1.
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West Burlington’s Masin Shullaw rounds the bases after hitting a homerun as the first batter against Wapello in the West Burlington Tourney Saturday afternoon in West Burlington. Wapello defeated West Burlington, 5-1.
Photo by Dan Hockett Wapello Pitcher Clayton Meeker throws against West Burlington in the West Burlington Tourney Saturday afternoon in West Burlington. Wapello defeated West Burlington, 5-1.
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Wapello Pitcher Clayton Meeker throws against West Burlington in the West Burlington Tourney Saturday afternoon in West Burlington. Wapello defeated West Burlington, 5-1.
Photo by Dan Hockett Wapello First Baseman Trenton Massner makes the play against West Burlington’s Masin Shullaw in the West Burlington Tourney Saturday afternoon in West Burlington. Wapello defeated West Burlington, 5-1.
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Wapello First Baseman Trenton Massner makes the play against West Burlington’s Masin Shullaw in the West Burlington Tourney Saturday afternoon in West Burlington. Wapello defeated West Burlington, 5-1.
Photo by Dan Hockett Wapello’s Trace Howard (8) celebrates with his teammates after hitting a homerun against West Burlington in the West Burlington Tourney Saturday afternoon in West Burlington. Wapello defeated West Burlington, 5-1.
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Wapello’s Trace Howard (8) celebrates with his teammates after hitting a homerun against West Burlington in the West Burlington Tourney Saturday afternoon in West Burlington. Wapello defeated West Burlington, 5-1.
Photo by Dan Hockett Wapello First Baseman Trenton Massner makes the play against West Burlington Saturday afternoon in West Burlington. Wapello defeated West Burlington, 5-1.
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Wapello First Baseman Trenton Massner makes the play against West Burlington Saturday afternoon in West Burlington. Wapello defeated West Burlington, 5-1.