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Bookwise, some places to start for general overviews of economics are:

"New Ideas from Dead Economists" by Todd Buchholtz

"Naked Economics" by Charles Wheelan

Blogwise:

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/ is entertaining and filled with good insights from a libertarian point of view.

http://economistsview.typepad.com/ has more centrist/liberal views on a variety of economic issues and has a good set of links to daily economic-related blog posts from various points of view.

The above blogs have enough links to other blogs to get you started, and they will give you different points of view on current topics.