One of the stories du jour is the political headline of "Dueling videos", where both candidates, Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney, are making remarks that most commentators and observers are highlighting as "embarrassing", or "controversial".

Mr. Romney's video emerged first, from a campaign dinner four months ago, in which he's heard giving damaging ( Read more... )

Browsing my Facebook newsfeed, I came across this from Mike Huckabee. It is a personal story he was relating to his Fox show viewers recently, and here is the transcript:

Every week we hear the latest jobs numbers and they aren't good. In fact, they're dismal in fact. An estimated 23 million Americans don't have jobs. But beyond those numbers, there ( Read more... )

With the announcement of the widely-leaked iPhone 5 in the first product launch since the untimely passing of Steve Jobs last year occuring today, many are expecting Apple to bounce back and reassert itself in the consumer electronics sector.

However, some believe that this isn't the case, and that the typical pattern of Apple product releases - ( Read more... )

Introducing a new (hopefully) weekly series: Person of the Week. This series will be designed to highlight significant members of society who are often glossed over, not known or otherwise not in the public consciousness. Partly inspired by this, the idea originally sprung after watching a KERA show - who will be next week's "guest".

Today, I ( Read more... )

I recently posted a few thoughts about why I blog and write on these sites (LJ and Xanga) and some new thoughts came to me that I wanted to briefly jot down and share.
Feelings
Writing is soothing. There's nothing like it. The feel of my fingers flying over the keyboard helps me to relax and makes feeling accomplished so much easier... not to mention ( Read more... )

As many of you may know, I'm an English-Australian expatriate living in the United States and will be (hopefully) gaining my permanent residency tomorrow. As such, I regularly peruse the BBC website for news, features and sport results. I came across this interesting article, read it and listened to the accompanying interviews:

A State of ( Read more... )

Ever since January 21, 2009 when Barack Obama was sworn in as the forty-fourth President of the United States of America, the effect, legacy and final analysis of the forty-third President, Texan George W. Bush, started. This process received a significant boost with the release of Bush’s memoir, Decision Points in November of 2010.

Having just ( Read more... )

Lets see how this writing-a-post-for-the-future lark works.

This week, I hope to accomplish the following:

On  LJ:
Start posting a bit more on here.
Blog. A lot. Subjects ranging from my honeymoon (belatedly), George Bush's memoir, my dabbles in The Folio Society (and how that'll impact future blogs), a sports-related post, and a personal post. ( Read more... )

Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt for the past thirty years resigned today after almost three weeks of constant protests from his citizens. Pretty much the whole world is rejoicing with the Egyptian protests, as by most accounts the Mubarak regime made a mockery of democracy and fostered a climate of fear to cement his rule. Once that fear ( Read more... )