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The American Elections

The 2012 American elections took place in the sixth day of November. The motto of the Americans this time round was to pick a president and not a party. It was the 57 th presidential election in the United States of America. According to the polls, it was a close race between the nominee of the Democratic party, President Barrack Obama, who had Vice President Joe Biden as his running mate and Governor Mitt Romney with Congressman Paul Ryan who is from Wisconsin. In the election campaign, there were three major presidential debates and one major vice-presidential debates. They were greatly awaited by the American citizens especially those who had not quite decided on who to vote for. The issues which were mostly debated on include national deficit, jobs and the ecomony, social policy, foreign policy and immigration. The betting markets had President Obama as the clear winner. However the statistics showed that the race was too close to predict who would become the president o...

The Brooke Burke cancer diagnosis

Most fans of Brook Burke were shocked as the model announced that she had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer. She said it in a video so that everybody could hear from her own words the statements she had to make. In her own words, the mother of four said that “i will have a nice big scar right here across my neck” she said pointing at the point where the surgery will take place. The thyroid cancer is not going to be her first thyroid illness. Previously she had become a victim of Hashimoto’s disease which means that after prevention, her thyroid didn’t work. She had a biopsy in July but as she told ModernMum.com, she had not followed the results. Her friend who had thyroid cancer convinced her that she did not have it even after she started putting off an ultrasound for months. She says it is a stupid and lame excuse that she was too busy to have had it checked out eight months earlier when she started getting the signs. Many people commend her for going public with this and ...