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on July 1, 2015 in World News

TV Land Pulls ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ Episodes Amid Confederate Flag Uproar

TV Land Pulls ‘Dukes of Hazzard’ Episodes Amid Confederate Flag Uproar by Kate Stanhope The Duke Boys are being put on the bench. TV Land has pulled reruns of Dukes of Hazzard in light of the recent uproar over the Confederate flag, which is emblazoned on the roof of the show’s iconic General Lee 1969 Dodge Charger, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The show has faced criticism over the depiction of the controversial flag in the wake of the June 17 shooting in Charleston that left nine dead, and what many viewed as South Carolina’s delayed decision to take the… View Article

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on July 1, 2015 in World News

Multinational Corporations in Mexico Shutting Down Due to Drug War Violence

Multinational Corporations in Mexico Shutting Down Due to Drug War Violence by Sylvia Longmire There aren’t many smiles to go with a Coke in the state of Guerrero, Mexico, these days. FEMSA, the largest franchise Coca-Cola bottling company the world, shut down its distribution centers in Iguala—site of the kidnapping and likely massacre of 43 students nine months ago—and Arcelia while maintaining facilities in other parts of the state. According to the PanAm Post, FEMSA has not publicly commented on the reasons for its decision to move from Iguala. But its 2014 annual report warned that rising drug-cartel violence could… View Article

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on July 1, 2015 in World News

‘Danish UKIP’ Tightens Border Controls Within Weeks of Winning National Election

‘Danish UKIP’ Tightens Border Controls Within Weeks of Winning National Election by Oliver Lane After forming a government with the support of ‘Denmark’s UKIP’, the new centre-right bloc’s foreign minister Kristian Jensen has travelled to Germany to meet his counterpart and discuss the new border arrangements. Although the Eurosceptic, anti-mass-immigration Danish People’s Party (Dansk Folkpartei, DF) has declined to join the government coalition because of irreconcilable differences with the now ruling centre-right Venestre party, they are supporting the government by voting for their bills on the condition they tighten up the borders. Denmark’s only land border is with Germany, a… View Article

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on July 1, 2015 in World News

Trump Takes Second Place in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nationwide

Trump Takes Second Place in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nationwide by Alex Swoyer GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump continues to climb the polls — this time in Iowa. The numbers come from a new Quinnipiac University poll. Trump barely trails former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in New Hampshire, and he is trailing Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in Iowa. “Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker continues to lead the Republican field in the Hawkeye state with 18 percent, while Ben Carson tied with Trump for second. Walker has yet to announce he is running for president, but is expected to launch his campaign this month,”… View Article

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on July 1, 2015 in World News

Trump Cuts Ties with Macy’s after NBC and Univision

Trump Cuts Ties with Macy’s after NBC and Univision by Alex Swoyer GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump is cutting ties with Macy’s, which has sold his ties and shirts. According to CNN, Macy’s wanted to sever business relations with Trump after his statements on illegal immigration during his presidential announcement. His statements caused both NBC and Univision to  discontinue broadcasting the Miss USA pageant. Trump is now suing Univision for breaking the contract. Trump said in a released statement: I have decided to terminate my relationship with Macy’s because of the pressure being put on them by outside sources. While selling Trump… View Article

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on July 1, 2015 in World News

Obama Millennials Want to Leave the America They Created

Obama Millennials Want to Leave the America They Created by Ben Shapiro A new poll from TransferWise shows that 35 percent of those born in the United States would consider ditching their home country to live elsewhere; that number skyrockets among those aged 18-34, the so-called millennials, 55 percent of whom said they would think of taking off if given the chance. Most of those millennials cite economics as a chief factor in their desire to leave: 43 percent of men and 38 percent of women said they’d leave if they could get paid more in another country. The rationales… View Article

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on June 30, 2015 in World News

Columbia University Study: 1 In 3 Americans Are Gun Owners

Columbia University Study: 1 In 3 Americans Are Gun Owners by AWR Hawkins A recently released Columbia University study shows that 1 in 3 Americans are gun owners. The study was conducted by assistant professor of epidemiology Bindu Kalesan and included an examination of “gun ownership information gathered from study subjects aged 18 years old and above from all 50 US states, including the District of Columbia in October 2013.” According to Tech Times, the study found that 1 in 3 Americans own guns and that the “percentage of gun owners are highly varied depending on the state.” For example,… View Article

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on June 30, 2015 in World News

Man Allegedly Pulls Gun, Gets Shot By Armed Domino’s Pizza Driver

Man Allegedly Pulls Gun, Gets Shot By Armed Domino’s Pizza Driver by AWR Hawkins On Sunday, a man allegedly pulled a gun on a Domino’s Pizza delivery driver and got shot by the driver, who turned out to be armed. The incident took place in Albuquerque, New Mexico. According to the Albuquerque Journal, Police arrived on scene at approximately 9:30 pm and found the suspect, 52-year-old Gerardo Alvarado, lying in the parking lot near where he allegedly tried to rob the driver. Alvarado first allegedly robbed the Domino’s store itself at gunpoint, then came across the delivery driver in the parking lot upon exiting the… View Article

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on June 30, 2015 in World News

Federal public safety minister, RCMP clash over banned rifle

Federal public safety minister, RCMP clash over banned rifle By Douglas Quan The federal public safety minister’s office has asked the Mounties to review their decision to classify a rifle as prohibited after it roused the ire of gun enthusiasts. This is not the first time the government has taken issue with the way the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has classified a gun and the latest spat reflects its push to obtain greater control over such decisions. The conflict started when the RCMP classified a Mossberg-brand rifle, the Blaze, as non-restricted, but ruled the Blaze-47 was prohibited. Gun enthusiasts were… View Article

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on June 30, 2015 in World News

NEA ‘attack’ on homeschoolers blasted as ‘outrageous’

NEA ‘attack’ on homeschoolers blasted as ‘outrageous’ Writers rebuff idea ‘comprehensive education experience’ lacking By Paul Bremmer The National Education Association has launched an attack on the practice of homeschooling, and one leading education expert is not taking it lying down. “The National Education Association’s radical attacks on constitutionally protected liberties and homeschooling families in particular are outrageous and should be vehemently denounced by every real educator and every real American,” internationalist journalist and educator Alex Newman declared. The NEA’s 2014-2015 resolution on homeschooling begins like this: “The National Education Association believes that home schooling programs based on parental choice… View Article

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