Rants

The average price of gas in the U.S. has jumped to about $3.20 a gallon and will undoubtedly increase.

An acute shortage of health workers has hit Africa, according to the World Health Organization.

Raves

A medic from Texas has just become the second woman to win the Silver Star, one of the U.S. Army’s highest awards for valor, since the WWII.

A worker in California found $30,000 in clothes donated to a veterans’ thrift store and returned it.