Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying

I had predicted an electoral landslide for President Obama with a 332-206 win. I had also predicted a popular vote margin for Obama of 51.5% to 48.5% head to head.
How did I do?
With Florida now in Obama’s column, he won with 332-206. So, I hit the electoral result exactly right.
Though some votes are still being counted, the popular [...]

8:58:24 PM: There is a reason Afghanistan is referred to as the graveyard of foreign armies.
9:00:48 PM: Obama gettting ready to thread the needle on Afghan policy.
9:01:19 PM: Any Afghan policy that ignores the Pak military’s incubation of Islamists is destined for failure.
9:02:25 PM: Obama takes the stage at West Point. Here we go…
9:03:37 PM: [...]

8:05:50 PM: After painting himself into a corner in August and losing his base, Obama will try to reclaim the initiative. Maybe.
8:16:54 PM: A lot on the line for Obama, and the country.
8:18:46 PM: Obama says he wants to help responsible homeowners stay in their homes. So far, his program has failed miserably.
8:19:21 PM: Obama [...]

President Obama and Vice President Biden were at Ray’s Hell Burger yesterday for lunch. Ray’s is a burger restaurant in Arlington, Virginia and one of our lunch hangouts. I am generally not a burger lover, but Ray’s makes some awesome burgers. My personal favorite from their menu is the Big Punisher with a side of [...]

Now for something completely different! Consider this therapy:
I am sure by now all of you have heard of the Susan Boyle phenomenon. I saw it last week on YouTube. To me what was amazing was not that a so-called “frumpy” woman was singing with a gorgeous voice. To me the amazing thing was that someone [...]

Regular readers may have noticed that over the past month or so, I have been making changes to this site. Most dramatically, I have replaced the old 2-column theme that was here for over two years with a new 3-column theme. Behind the scenes, I have also upgraded the blogging platform to Wordpress 2.7.
With the new [...]

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs went after Rick Santelli of CNBC during today’s White House Press Briefing. He was responding to Santelli’s on-air rant yesterday from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. Santelli was mocking Obama’s mortgage plan as helping “losers. He was cheered on by the traders around him.
Below is the rant [...]

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas. Ours was great. Santa was good to my daughter this year, because she was (mostly) good throughout the year. I, on the other hand, am still without a Nikon D90
After the presents were unwrapped, my family and I went to the movies. I saw Slumdog Millionaire - a [...]

Sometime yesterday, this little blog crossed the one million page views mark. As I write this, the visit counter tells me there have been 1,002,072 visits to this blog since I started writing on March, 2006.
When I started this blog, I had no idea if anyone would read it. To my surprise, readers started to trickle [...]

Barack Obama spoke about his grandmother at a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina this evening.