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Ann Arborites celebrated Obama’s victory into the wee hours on Nov. 4-5.

Padme Amidala makes a statement.

Nabil Al-Tikriti writes in a guest op-ed for IC: All day they came. And came. On this overcast Tuesday wave after wave of “real Americans” quietly queued up in determination to rattle the cage of the old order. The first woman in line had proudly planted her folding stadium chair in a light drizzle at […]

Wouldn’t it be nice if Jack, Martin, Bobby, Cesar and Patsy could have been around to see it?

Alaska: The only one of the 50 states where secessionists are considered American patriots rather than traitors. Catholic working class: Synonym for “feminist.” Communist: 1. A believer in a graduated income tax (“Communists” include Adam Smith and 81% of professional American economists). 2. When modified by ‘Chinese‘ : A supplier of retail goods to Walmart. […]

Condolences to Senator Barack Obama on the passing of his grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, who was in so many ways a mother to him, as well.

I do courtesy links time to time for members of the liberal blogads network, and today’s recommendation is CultureKitchen for their posting on the Minnesota senatorial contest between Al Franken and Norm Coleman (as a Midwesterner this is one I’ve been following closely, and was in Minnesota recently to see the sleazy negative ads Coleman […]

There has been almost no discussion in the press about the broader implications of John McCain’s military policies. McCain wants to keep a large military contingent in Iraq for some years to come. He agrees that more US troops should be sent to Afghanistan. (Obama wants more troops for Afghanistan but will draw down the […]

Pakistanis are closely following the US presidentail elections, according to Aljzeera English. Centcom commander Gen. David Petraeus is visiting Pakistan to discuss the security situation. Pakistan with pressure the next US president to halt the missile strikes recently deployed by the US military against targets inside the sovereign state of Pakistan.