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HannahB on December 26th, 2011

Merry Chrstmas! ~R.E.

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HannahB on December 20th, 2011

If you haven’t heard yet: Kim Jong Il, the “Dear Leader” of North Korea, is dead. He died of heart failure on Dec. 17th and was confirmed on Dec. 18th. People’s reaction to his death depend on their perspective of him. Some peop…

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HannahB on August 16th, 2011

Outcasts United (Spiegel & Grau, 2009) by Warren St. John tells, as the book’s subtitle says, of “an American town, a refugee team, and one woman’s quest to make a difference.” As the Washington Post’s book review stat…

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BenB on January 20th, 2011

DREAM [d-reem, N] :: Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors :: A calamitous piece of legislations intended to help illegal children out of their distress, often with various and unaccounted for side effects. It was a fantasy, pie in the sky, it was a DREAM. Interesting how some of the most harrowing legislation is [...]

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BenB on October 29th, 2010

While President Barrack Obama figures out how to get his teleprompter to fit in his travel bag so he can show the Indian parliament how it’s done, the early voting has started. Unfortunately, fraud has started along with it. One woman in Nevada went to vote on Tuesday only to find her ballot with Harry [...]

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