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Barack Obama is now the 44th President of the United States. And while my classmates squeal with glee at the prospect of the promised Glorious Socialist Utopia that lays ahead, I somehow find myself less than enthusiastic. After all, do we really expect economic policies that failed so magnificently under men like Johnson and Carter [...]

It’s never been re-pressed on vinyl or released on CD, but Ben Mink’s Foreign Exchange has quickly become one of my favorite albums. Released in 1980, it is a magnificent, genre-defying mixture of bluegrass, progressive rock, and virtuoso jazz bound together by Mink’s mastery of a wide variety of stringed instruments. Best known for his [...]