OttawaRich people love socialismAccording to CNN’s exit polling , Americans making $200,000 or more per year voted as so. Obama 52% McCain 46%
GeneralThe honeymoon’s overMemo to all those Canadian pundits who believe Barack Obama will change vast numbers of Canadian progressives’ minds about the...
OttawaHealthy cynicismWill Wilkinson (via Sullivan ). "The government of the state is profoundly important. And I think American voters picked a...
Ottawa“This has restored my faith in democracy."So says Duncan Adel, a computer technician in Kenya. Kenya’s own most recent presidential election was less inspiring .
OttawaWell, Joe Biden did say he’d be testedAnd Dmitry Medvedev wastes no time offering Barack Obama a choice : Russia will deploy short-range missiles in Kaliningrad on the...
OttawaThe Cynic and Senator ObamaCharles P. Pierce, a few months back, in Esquire . "We have not been a great country for a very long time, the cynic believes, and...
OttawaYou can stop feeling smug nowOur respective elections this year would appear to represent the first time since 1896 that voter turnout in the United States...
OttawaThe risingIt’s the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who...
GeneralPresident-Elect Barack ObamaBobby Kennedy called it 40 years ago. At last, America can now hope for the more perfect union. This is history in the making and...
OttawaBest concession speech ever?The race speech is the one for the history books, but this might be the speech of the campaign.