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So it's official (almost). Mike Huckabee has conceded the election (gracefully, so it seems) to John McCain, who now has the necessary 1,191 delegates to capture the Republican nomination for President.

So what is the deal with us third culture kids? Do you even know what it means to be a third culture child? My life, my childhood, has been filled with obstacles and hardships that many Americans just don't understand or even want to understand. Why is it that many people's eyes glaze over when I begin to tell of life outside the United States?

Yesterday at Cleveland State University in Ohio, Senator Hillary Clinton (NY) and Senator Barack Obama (IL) went head-to-head in a debate.

It was intense, and it was argumentative, but in the end I think Hillary Clinton was the clear winner. Her rhetoric was much more advanced, and specific than that of Obama.

Black smoke fills the air, not the usual BBQing at Christmas time (I live in Texas) but more like, something has caught on fire.Fire orange bursts end up taking the spot of a house that once stood. A little boy, about 10 years old walks out and is questioned by the police, "Yes, I started the fire." It ended up killing his whole family, mother and syblings.