"Thinner and thinner vocabularies among all segments of population are more prevalent every day--the consequences far-reaching hurting all aspects of our lives, from economic success to cultural intake and academic achievement. We are using on average only a few thousands words. Only a handful considering 320,000 definitions Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary contains. With all this abundance, there is no reason for our word deprivation..."

"The latest polling shows that the approval rating of Congress is at an all-time low, 9%. There are numerous reasons for that, now you can add immunity to insider trading to the list. On November 13 the award winning investigative publication '60 Minutes' aired a piece about Congress using non-public information they gather from their position as lawmakers, and personally gain financially from this information by trading in stocks...."

"There is no emperor of the world; not because there is an absence of what the depraved sociologist Foucauldians would term power structures - for, certainly, empirically distinct forms of power subsist, enacting their prosaic effects on the equally prosaic actions of the proletariat, and so, as to remain contemporary, despite our endemic resistance to do so, one can cite the current mob mobilization of the collective body against facades of capitalist hegemonic determination as a case of the recognition of such a presence of power..."

"It has been three decades since the United States suffered a double-dip recession..."

"Even though the United States economy is still struggling and threatening to plummet into a second recession, one lucrative industry is currently hiring. The caveat is this job involves performing airshow tricks, tactics, and stunts and job-related deaths have skyrocketed this year..."

"It's understandable that some people would capitalize on America's loss of AAA credit rating..."

"On Tuesday, May 31, I was reading the article 'Millennium Scholarship Fund may be broke after fall semester' by Richard Lake of Las Vegas Review-Journal. This article captured my attention for I was a recipient of the Millennium Scholarship and without its aid I would not have been able to afford college..."

"Harold Camping, the leader of the apocalyptic movement that predicted the end of the world would begin on May 21, has suffered a stroke..."

"What happens when a kid is worth a projected $100 million? Well, this scenario does not happen daily, but when it does, we get Justin Bieber..."