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    Roger Ailes is Out

    Gretchen Carlson and Megyn Kelly finally got around to doing to what Roger Ailes wanted them to do. He'll be walking funny for a while.
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    Black Olives Matter

    "I think it shows an interesting state of affairs of where our country is that people, first of all, can be offended by a statement about a vegetable. Black olives matter, and it does matter in our tapenade." Social media had a collective meltdown. Dood is just trying to advertise his latest...
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    Brexit: What have we done?!?!

    The British pastime of sitting around and making fun of just how dumb and stupid Americans are is a pastime in which they can no longer partake. After voting to Exit, Adam from Manchester right there on live television on the BBC said, "I'm a bit shocked to be honest. I'm shocked that we...
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    POLL Watch Lists and Guns

    There are certainly people who should not have guns. I don't think anyone disagrees with that. Is being placed on some watch list enough to justify taking away someone's Constitutionally guaranteed right? Does it meet the standards of due process?
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    Trump: Chalk and Awe (Free Speech on Campus)

    Political correctness is now a caricature of itself. "As college campuses have become bastions of rigorously enforced political correctness, the limits on speech have come crashing down in the real world, with the presumptive Republican nominee for president dishing out macroaggressions on a...
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    Own an American "Icon"

    George Zimmerman is auctioning off the gun he used to defend himself against the "brutal attack" by Trayvon Martin. The gun is a piece of "American history" and is an "American Firearm Icon." The $350 Kel-Tec PF-9, 9mm pistol's bidding starts at five grand. A portion of the proceeds will go...
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    Evolution Deniers

    Little baby Hong Hong from Pingjiang County in Hunan Province China has 16 toes, also has 15 fingers and no thumbs. Mom has 11 toes and 11 fingers.
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    The American Education System

    Here it is. From an elementary school math test. The math problem in the picture below deals with Reasonableness. In mathematics, reasonableness a rough and easily mentally-calculated estimate, often referred to as a "ballpark estimate." It can help to predict the numerical range the final...
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    Your Education Tax Dollars at Work

    Star Wars the Force Awakens opens in a week and everyone in every galaxy between here and Far, Fay Away is looking forward to it. 7th grader Colton Southern is certainly one of those looking forward to the new installment in the Star Wars saga. He wore his new Star Wars shirt to school and...
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    Gun Control and Terrorism

    "America isn't even tryyyyiiiiinnggggggg!" I've read that little whine du jour in at least a dozen articles over the past 2 weeks. In every case, it's not about gun control that will actually do something, that will have an impact on mass shootings (that have been going on for decades, BTW)...
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    "This is Not a Day Care." Oh SNAP!

    Dr. Everett Piper, the president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University finally had enough with everyone trying so hard to be offended. "This is not a day care. This is a university!" is how he put it. Basically, he told his university students to grow up, grow a pair, suck it up, and deal with it...
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    The Thrill is Gone

    "The administration’s Obamacare enrollment projections for the coming year are down, the projected cost of premiums and out of pocket costs are up, nearly half of the insurance co-ops associated with the program are going out of business, and UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest health...
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    Your Tax Dollars Hard at Work

    Congress prepares to ban ‘pay for patriotism’ promos at sporting events Roger Goodell: NFL will refund money received for ‘paid patriotism’ Defense Department Paid 5.4 million
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    The Wild, Wild West - SE Michigan

    Ah, yes, responsible gun ownership. There's nothing quite like the calm, cool and collected, utterly responsible actions of a responsible conceal and carry gun owner to flat out shut down the arguments of gun control advocates. Please note the implied <snort> Chicago (AFP) - A woman in suburban...
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    Feel-Good Intentions Never Work Out as Intended

    Feel-good intentions is the bread and butter of liberal politics. When they don't work out as intended, it's always, "Oh, well, at least we tried." From The Week
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    New Gun Ownership Study

    There's a new gun ownership study published in the journal Injury Prevention by researchers Bindu Kalesan, Marcos Villarreal, and Katherine Keyes of Columbia University (in NYC), and Sandro Galea of Boston University (in Boston), all from the School of Public Health at their respective...
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    Health Care Premiums to Jump 20-54%

    Just as predicted, the healthcare insurers are now saying that because of the influx of previously uninsured people, who are all sicker than they expected, and not enough young healthy people willing to throw good money away, they're gonna have to raise the premiums by a lot. A really, really...
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    Tithing Your 10%? You're Getting Played

    How passing the plate becomes the 'Sunday morning stickup' Discuss. :D
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    Dangers of Posting Selfies to the Internet

    There are reasons the military doesn't want soldiers taking pictures with their cell phones and then posting them to the Internet. One of them is the geotag found in the EXIF of the pictures. In what may be the most clear-cut example of a selfie photobomb, an ISIS soldier, standing in front...
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    It's Like a Flux Capacitor!

    The US Navy's new railgun has debuted at the Navy’s Future Force Science and Technology Expo at the Washington Convention Center this week, and it's gnarly as far as big guns go. Conventional weapons like a Hellfire missile can travel little over Mach 1 and a 5-inch gun hit targets up to 13...
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