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New Chicago High School won’t be named after Obama

Click here: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel backed off Thursday from naming a new elite high school after President Barack Obama amid ongoing criticism from African-Americans.

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Nikes Topple Bears, 3-0

Photo by Dan Hockett Danville’s Megan Wilson sets the ball against Notre Dame Tuesday night in Danville. Notre Dame defeated Danville, 25-14, 25-18, 25-12.
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Danville’s Megan Wilson sets the ball against Notre Dame Tuesday night in Danville. Notre Dame defeated Danville, 25-14, 25-18, 25-12.
Photo by Dan Hockett Notre Dame’s Jayla Kreiss sends the ball over the net against Danville Tuesday night in Danville. Notre Dame defeated Danville, 25-14, 25-18, 25-12.
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Notre Dame’s Jayla Kreiss sends the ball over the net against Danville Tuesday night in Danville. Notre Dame defeated Danville, 25-14, 25-18, 25-12.
Photo by Dan Hockett Danville’s Monet Miller sends the ball over the net against Notre Dame Tuesday night in Danville. Notre Dame defeated Danville, 25-14, 25-18, 25-12.
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Danville’s Monet Miller sends the ball over the net against Notre Dame Tuesday night in Danville. Notre Dame defeated Danville, 25-14, 25-18, 25-12.
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The War on Poverty After 50 Years

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Click here: The War on Poverty After 50 Years
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U.S. tax burden on business one of the worst in the industrialized world

We’re Number 32!

A new global index highlights the harm from the U.S. tax code.
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Obituaries this week

Karl Heinrich Benninghoven, 84, Burlington died Sunday, September 14, 2014

Frances Evelyn Turner, 88, Scottsdale, AZ, formerly Burlington died Thursday, September 11, 2014

Darline I. Wagler, 88, Burlington died Thursday, September 18, 2014

Jean M. Miller, 77, Burlington died Thursday, September 18, 2014

Donald LeRoy Loose, 86, Burlington died Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Gertrude Edith (Johnson) Dunham, 87, Burlington died Monday, August 25, 2014

 William Jackson “Jack” Smith, 58, Farmington, died Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Verlea Lantz, 76, Burlington, died Thursday, September 18, 2014

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Is Evil Rational?

Is evil rational? If it is, then how can we depend on reason alone to make a better world?

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Hiking the Minimum Wage Won’t Help the Poor

Click here: The ground has been shifting in the battle over the minimum wage. With President Obama’s proposal to hike the national minimum from $7.25 to $9 an hour stalled in Congress, local labor activists have been aiming even higher, getting behind a vastly higher minimum wage of $15 an hour. 
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Federal Judge Strikes Down Ohio ‘False’ Speech Law

Click here: In its unanimous June 2014 ruling in Susan B. Anthony List v. Driehaus, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the anti-abortion group Susan B. Anthony List had every right to mount a First Amendment challenge to an Ohio law which criminalizes “false” political speech.
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Feminism 2.0

We hear it all the time: “America is patriarchal!”, “American women are oppressed!”. Well, a lifelong feminist and former National Organization for Women member, Tammy Bruce, is tired of hearing it–and she has a solution laid out in our newest video: Feminism 2.0.

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5-million gmail accounts hacked

Click here: Millions of Gmail accounts hacked, was yours one of them?

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