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“… one giant leap for mankind.” - Neil Armstrong, July 20, 1969 from Tranquility Base on the moon.
Forty years ago today, long before manned space flight came to be defined as a quick jaunt around the Earth, man reached higher and further. Apollo 11 and the men who blasted [...]

The King of Pop is dead. He was a man of unparalleled talent, a musical genius. His impact on the world of music and the medium of music videos is without equal.
Beyond the music he lived a troubled life. Today that life came to a sudden end. May he finally find peace.
Michael Jackson sang “Gone Too [...]

Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz is one tough human being:
Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Democrat of Florida, kicked off a breast cancer awareness campaign today with disclosures of her own that hadn’t been widely known before now.
The congresswoman revealed over the weekend that for the last year, she had battled breast cancer and had undergone seven major [...]

Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner announced the Obama administration’s financial rescue plan yesterday. The Administration calls this the “Financial Stability Plan.” The “Plan” has Paul Krugman confused. Krugman refers to it as “The Rorschach Plan.” Krugman says “It’s really not clear what the plan means; there’s an interpretation that makes it not too bad, but [...]

Thousands of miles from here there are men tonight engaged in killing innocent civilians, mothers, fathers and their young children. Today, up in New York City however, one man engaged in the business of saving lives. US Airways pilot C. B. "Sully" Sullenberger saved the lives of 155 men, women and children as he glided [...]

Virgil Goode, Muslim hating Republican congressman from Virginia’s 5th district, is about to lose his seat in Congress. He is currently trailing Democrat Tom Perriello by only 648 votes. Currently the provisional ballots are being counted and the tallies are being finalized. If this result holds and Goode is swept out of office I will [...]

Elsheba Khan at the grave of her son, Specialist Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan.

General Colin Powell - former Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff, former National Security Advisor, former Secretary of State, and lifelong Republican  - today endorsed Barack Obama on Meet The Press. It was a powerful endorsement.
The endorsement brought me nearly to tears because of this passage:

I’m also troubled by, not what Sen. McCain says, [...]

With polls showing Barack Obama with a lead over John McCain both nationally and in battleground states, the conversation over the weekend turned to the reliability of these polls. With an African American running against a White candidate, it appears that the "Bradley Effect" is about to be tested.
The Bradley Effect (we in Virginia like [...]