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VIDEO: Store owner opens fire on burglars
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How Did America Become a Nation of Slobs?
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The Importance of Dads in an Increasingly Fatherless America
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Home Made Full Auto Crossbow!
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A (Manageable) Summer Reading List for the Beach
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Widespread Gun Ownership Increases Personal Safety
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Oops – Dancing Fed discharges weapon after backflip
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Flip Flop Art: Recycling made beautiful
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Why the world is screwed
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Paul Harvey: If I were the Devil
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VIDEO: Playing the Black Card
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How You Can Better Honor the Fallen This Memorial Day
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Paul Harvey – “The Policeman”
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Patriotism: Why So Many Intellectuals Can’t Understand It
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CNN’s 22 school shootings are #FakeNews and an insult to real victims
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Possibly the best ‘How It’s Made’ video ever
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Can you do this 8th Grade Civics test from 1954?
Here’s a Civics test from 1954. I hope Kenny Hignite who scored 98.5 on this test went on to be an …
How a 1934 New York Graduation Exam Shows How Far Academic Standards Have Fallen
How a 1934 New York Graduation Exam Shows How Far Academic Standards Have Fallen Today’s education system has a myriad …
Intellectual Takeout Quiz: Are You Religiously Literate?
As the Western world becomes more secular, religious knowledge is on the decline. At Intellectual Takeout, however, we feel that …