Open letter to the voters...............

America was founded by free individuals; individuals like you who have the right to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of happiness. For the first time in human history, the individual took precedence over the state. Brave American men and women have shed blood ever since to preserve this principle. Yet, today, it is apparent that our government has forgotten this sacrosanct principle. From bailouts to mandates, every day Washington imposes increasing legislation designed to transfer more control of your life to bureaucrats. Why should one hundred senators in DC have so much power in dictating the lives of more than 100 million working Americans?..Link

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Why a Strong Dollar Matters to You.

A statement we frequently hear from economic analysts is that America needs a “strong dollar.” And most of the time, the non-economically savvy segment of the population blankly nods in agreement. Lacking a deep understanding of why a strong dollar is beneficial (or even what a strong dollar means), most people nevertheless prefer a strong dollar to a weak one. However, the words “strong” and “weak” are the source of much confusion on this issue. In virtually every other area of life, strength is categorically, universally preferred to weakness...Link

It's in the Atlantic too.

Billions of bits of plastic are accumulating in a massive garbage patch in the Atlantic Ocean—a lesser known cousin to the Texas-size trash vortex in the Pacific, scientists say. "Many people have heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch," said Kara Lavender Law, an oceanographer at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. (See pictures of the Pacific Ocean trash vortex.) "But this issue has essentially been ignored in the Atlantic." The newly described garbage patch sits hundreds of miles off the North American coast. Although its east-west span is unknown, the patch covers a region between 22 and 38 degrees north latitude—roughly the distance from Cuba to Virginia (see a U.S. map).Link