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From classics such as George Orwell's Animal Farm to L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, we've scoured the book shelf for the best closing lines (or, in some cases to give context, the best final few lines) ever written. If you don't want to know a book you're yet to read's final thought, look away now...

Now that the campaign has begun for the presidential election for 2012, some of the Republican hopefuls have once again announced their support for the Flat (or as they like to call it the “Fair” Tax). Unfortunately, the tax is in no way fair, as it places a disproportionate tax burden upon the lower middle class, but that aside, there are a number of other negative side effects that the supporters of the tax rarely discuss and certainly do not dispose of.

On Tuesday night, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa condemned Mitt Romney's anti-Hispanic immigration stance, calling it "far out of the mainstream" and out of line with former GOP leaders. "He's taken positions that are so extreme, so far out of the mainstream, from where Republican party icon Ronald Reagan, [and] President Bush, George W. Bush were on this issue," the L.A. Mayor said.

Five former secretaries of state—Henry A. Kissinger, George P. Shultz, James A. Baker III, Lawrence S. Eagleburger and Colin L. Powell—on why the treaty should be ratified.

George Lippincott was the founder and president of Nic-L-Silver Battery Company, Santa Ana, California, which made a popular line of American car batteries in the 1950s.