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Obama Executive Order May Require Those Selling Even a Single Firearm to Become Licensed Dealers

Click here: Order also brings back plan to keep certain Social Security recipients from buying guns

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Do You Understand the Electoral College?

Do you understand what the Electoral College is? Or how it works? Or why America uses it to elect its presidents instead of just using a straight popular vote? Author, lawyer and Electoral College expert Tara Ross does, and she explains that to understand the Electoral College is to understand American democracy.

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Popular Vote vs. the Electoral College

Right now, there’s a well-organized, below-the-radar effort to render the Electoral College effectively useless. It’s called the National Popular Vote, and it would turn our presidential elections into a majority-rule affair. Would this be good or bad? Author, lawyer, and Electoral College expert Tara Ross explains.

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Mt. Pleasant Schools W.B., 74-28

Photo by Dan Hockett West Burlington’s Colten Hohenthaner (31) delivers the ball to the basket against Mt. Pleasant Saturday afternoon in Mt. Pleasant.  Mt. Pleasant defeated West Burlington, 74-28.
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West Burlington’s Colten Hohenthaner (31) delivers the ball to the basket against Mt. Pleasant Saturday afternoon in Mt. Pleasant. Mt. Pleasant defeated West Burlington, 74-28.
Photo by Dan Hockett West Burlington’s Darius Redd shoots a basket against Mt. Pleasant Saturday afternoon in Mt. Pleasant.  Mt. Pleasant defeated West Burlington, 74-28.
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West Burlington’s Darius Redd shoots a basket against Mt. Pleasant Saturday afternoon in Mt. Pleasant. Mt. Pleasant defeated West Burlington, 74-28.
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Panthers Stop Falcons, 60-43

Photo by Dan Hockett West Burlington’s Nicole Nichols looks for the basket through Mt. Pleasant defenders Saturday afternoon in Mt. Pleasant.  Mt. Pleasant defeated West Burlington, 60-43.
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West Burlington’s Nicole Nichols looks for the basket through Mt. Pleasant defenders Saturday afternoon in Mt. Pleasant. Mt. Pleasant defeated West Burlington, 60-43.
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Obituaries this week

Owen Elwood Bray, 83, Leon, died Thursday, December 31, 2015

Mary Jean Shoopman, 92, Burlington, died Saturday, January 2, 2016

Mary Ellen Gulick, 84, Burlington died Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Larry Jankowski, 76, Burlington died Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Raymond Russell Rutter, 83, Fort Madison died Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Mary Elizabeth Parker, 92, Burlington, died Saturday, January 2, 2016

Patsy Ruth Kauer, 79, Burlington died Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Barron L. Graham, 66, rural Sperry died Sunday, January 3, 2016

Zola V. Hunter, 95, Bloomfield, formerly Burlington, died Sunday, January 3, 2016

Tim Thye, 62, Sperry, died Monday, January 4, 2016

Betty J. (Smith) Malcom Wunderlich, 77, Burlington died Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Madelyn Adell Shumaker, 93, Danville, died Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Eleanor Rose Boecker, 88, Burlington, died Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Norma  “Jeanie”  “Granny” Adkins, 86, Gulfport, IL, died Tuesday, January 5, 2016

William “Bill” Schofield, 81, Burlington, died Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Paul August Amenell, 97, Burlington died Thursday, January 7, 2016

James Thomas “Jim” Newberry , 68, Burlington, died Thursday, January 7, 2016

Roberta “Bert” Weddle, 56, Burlington, died Thursday, January 7, 2016

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Study: 2015 a Record Year for Federal Regulation

Click here: 2015’s publication of federal government rules, proposed rules and notices amounted to 81,611 pages, higher than last year’s 77,687 pages and higher than the all-time high of 81,405 pages in 2010.
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Poll: Most Americans Support Government Surveillance

Click here: 56-percent of Americans favor the government conducting surveillance on Internet communications without a warrant. By party, Republicans (67 percent) and Democrats (55 percent) favor warrantless government surveillance.
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191 Million US Voter Registration Records Leaked In Mystery Database

Click here: 191 Million US Voter Registration Records Leaked In Mystery Database
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Google is tracking students as it sells more products to schools, privacy advocates warn

Click here: Google is tracking students as it sells more products to schools, privacy advocates warn

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