Fivethirtyeight.com has an excellent post that is absolutely worth sharing: There is, to say the least, a lot of jumping to conclusions about just which type of President Barack Obama is liable to be, by which I mean whether he’ll govern from the left or the center. This speculation has been principally based on his [...]
Barack Obama is not even President yet, but he’s already making significant improvements over the current administration. Today, the President-elect had a press conference where he unveiled his economic team. On the subject of the economy, the Huffington Post provided an overview of some of the more interesting reactions: The Economist has praised Obama’s pick [...]
According to news reports, Barack Obama may be getting ready to jettison Daylight Savings. Turns out, according to two academics on the NYT Op-Ed page, there is little scientific proof that this reduces energy consumption. It also turns out that this practice could be wasteful, a bit annoying, and a lot of people, including Obama, [...]
This week, the auto industry was at the center of the American news cycle as the CEOs of the Big Three used their private jets to fly to Washington DC to plea for money to bail them out of the holes that they dug for themselves. A lot of pundits have used the “$70-per-hour” myth [...]
Andy Borowitz has an interesting story about Obama’s latest controversy. You’ll have to read it to believe it….
I admit it… I can’t help but smile like a big cheshire cat everytime I see a newspaper headline with the phrase “President-Elect Barack Obama” … or campaign buttons for Obama! Geoff of Going.com has created an amazing online gallery of both newspaper headlines from November 5th and Obama campaign buttons. I mentioned his newspaper [...]
Today, the first politician I ever volunteered for celebrates his 60th birthday. Howard Dean, the outgoing-leader of the Democratic Party has plenty of reasons to celebrate today. His 50-state strategy, often ridiculed by Democratic party hacks, turned out to be the winning strategy to secure a majority rule. On March 15, 2003, I witnessed a [...]
As you might have heard, Barack Obama had a meeting this week with outgoing-President George W. Bush. One of the big issues that President-elect Obama wanted the current president to act on was pushing some economic support for those in the automotive industry. There’s some real concern that one, maybe two of the Big Three [...]
A handful of interesting links… UK Telegraph has the article “Barack Obama: The 50 facts you might not know” which includes these tasty factoids… • He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics • He was known as “O’Bomber” at high school for his skill at basketball • His name means “one who is blessed” [...]
One of the most entertaining overviews I’ve read on the election celebrations has to be 20 Wildest Reactions to Obama’s Victory on the 10 Zen Monkeys blog, shared via a Twitter from Disinfo. Some of the celebrations included: The Facebook group entitled “I will walk out my front door naked as soon as Obama wins!” [...]
