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Over the past few weeks I’ve been noticing that the gas prices have been going down. I was very excited to see that the gas price went from 3.77 to 3.23. Every cent is important to me as a poor college student. However, just the other day I came across an article on msnbc news about our country’s debt.  Read More »

How this has gone beyond our notice (indeed, not just our notice, but the media's and the country's notice) that Senator McCain was not born within the United States is inconceivable to me.  Read More »

I recently read the article about the discovery of the mass graves. I suggest you give it quick read as well. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080308/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq  Read More »

free market economics, the invisible hand. the economic idea developed by milton friedman. some people say that the us is a free market system, yet the government controls so much in economics that there is no possible way that the U.S. can be considered free markg Kong, yet anymore.  Read More »

My sister was watching The Sentinel while I was on the computer earlier today. I wasn't really paying attention to the movie until the "President" said something along the lines of "We should ratify the Kyoto Protocol." Obviously, this is Hollywood talking. But I agree with this statement.  Read More »

If any of you have been reading my blog faithfully for the past few months, you know that I'm studying abroad in Edinburgh this semester. This morning I found an article about the reading and maths scores for British* secondary school students have slipped off the international league table since 2000.  Read More »

How many books do you read in a year? If you're like 25% of the American adult population, you didn't read any.

An Associated Press-Ipsos poll released last month studied the reading habits of Americans, and found that one in four adults say that they read no books in the past year. Blame it on the Internet or our fast-paced lives, but 25% of the population is not reading books.  Read More »

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