Bravo Miss California

OK, So I’ve been hearing about this Miss California controversy for days now, and it has upset me enough that I’ve been moved to speak up.  Basically, my problem with the recent media coverage is that it has not given Miss California’s answer the credit it deserves.  Everyone is debating one [...]

We cannot think of a better friend and ally

Yesterday, President Obama found himself in a place that Theresa and I often find ourselves wishing we were: Canada.  In general, Canadians love Obama (even more than we love our Prime Minister and more than Americans love Obama, actually), and I count myself among my fellow countrymen who were excited about Obama’s first foreign visit as President.  The visit, [...]

Net Neutrality Update

It seems like the fight to save Net Neutrality has lost some important supporters:
Google Wants Its Own Fast Track To The Internet (Wall Street Journal)
UPDATE: According to Google’s Public Policy Blog and Lawrence Lessig’s Blog, neither have not shifted positions on Net Neutrality, and Obama is as committed as ever to the principle.  They both claim that [...]

Faith and Proposition 8

My first post on Prop 8 concerned the backlash the Mormon Church is facing over their support for the measure.  A secondary issue in this debate, which I hinted at and which was further explored  by Craig the Grey in the comments, is whether the Church should have encouraged its members to support Prop 8 [...]

Hate and Proposition 8

This has been a great election, but one aspect of last Tuesday has me a little upset: proposition 8.  When we were in California this summer, the bishop of our ward urged the members to support proposition 8, the ballot initiative that would amend the California Constitution to define marriage as the union between one man and one woman. [...]

YES WE DID!

Obama Is The Next President!!!  As Theresa said this morning: “Now we can stay in America.”  
And what is more, Obama was able to flip Virginia, and the Democrats took the Old Dominion’s second senate seat and may even win our congressional district (the race is still too close to call).

Thanks everyone who came to [...]

It’s election day, so get out and VOTE

…for Obama.
Here is a great piece from my favorite newspaper that you Americans probably wouldn’t see yourself; its about how the rest of the world is watching this election: “World Hopes for a ‘Less Arrogant’ America.”

Encourage Your Friends to Vote

Want to encourage your friends to vote?  Try sending her a customizable video through this website.  It is probably the funniest thing I have seen in 17 months.  Click here to see the video I customized and sent to myself, and then send it to your friends.  Seriously HILARIOUS.

For the Seven-Year-Old Socialist-American

Barack Obama has faced numerous rumors and attacks.  One persistent idea is that he is a Muslim.  I really appreciated Colin Powell’s response to this rumor:
“[Obama] is not a Muslim, he’s a Christian. He’s always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? [...]

Which quadrant are you?

Probably because of my coverage of both the US and Canadian elections, I recently was asked the question of how do the Canadian and American parties compare to each other on the right – left axis.  Based on politicalcompass.org, the simple answer would be thus (listing the parties from left to right, Canadian parties in [...]