“The colleague had been touring the young democracies of Eastern Europe during the American election, and he found it wasn’t so much Barack Obama that immediately knocked out observers but Mr. McCain’s concession speech. This is the first American transfer of power they’d seen in eight years, and they couldn’t get over the peacefulness and [...]

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with election day only 4 weeks away from yesterday, it’s time to get your political ducks in a row.  personal politics tend to change and you might be confused where you stand on the political spectrum.  doesn’t the old adage go: if you’re a young republican you have no heart, if you’re an old democrat [...]

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