Tomorrow morning, Barry and I leave for a bit of an adventure. We’re driving up to Manassas, VA, where we’ll be staying with a first cousin that I’ve never met. On Sunday morning, I’ll be meeting more of my Virginia relatives, the descendants of my father’s sister, who left New York with her second husband [...]

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I heard a rumor that someone from Ireland, with a friend here in town, bought pizza for the Durham Obama supporters on election day. And why not? Along with Chicago, Hawaii, Kenya and Indonesia, Ireland is claiming Obama as one of their native sons:
There’s No One as Irish as Barack Obama by Hardy Drew and [...]

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I heard a statement yesterday that I hadn’t heard in a long time, and certainly didn’t expect to hear after an election that included women as contenders for president and vice president, in a state where women were just elected as senator and governor. The statement questioned—no, advised—women who complain of painful menstrual cramps to [...]

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Where were you when Kennedy was assassinated?
Where were you when men first landed on the moon?
Where were you when the Challenger exploded?
Where were you on 9/11?
Where were you when Barack Obama was elected President?
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But have you? If not, get out and vote.
Preferably for Obama.
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I was surprised to read in the NY Times this morning that the county with the highest rate of foreclosure risk in NY State was none other than my home county, Suffolk.
Two of the three regions I’ve lived in the past—Long Island and the SF Bay Area—are among the most expensive in the country. So [...]

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OK. Politicians will reach for anything to demonize their opponents, but Our Gal in D.C., Liddy Dole, has decided to run a commercial portraying her opponent, Kay Hagan, as unfit for office because she—gasp! consorts with atheists.
Her claim to that is that Hagan went to a fundraiser at the house of somebody whose husband is [...]

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I am a real American.
I was born in this country and have lived here for over half a century.
I was educated in this country. I learned to think critically, to appreciate nuance, to research issues that concern me.
I am a working American. I have worked hard…sometimes longer than 24 hours in a row.
I am responsible [...]

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That $700 billion dollars that the US government is planning to fork over, that’s intended to, um, save the world, right? Get the wheels of the free market out of the mud, salvage the decimated retirement funds of the American middle class, make sure Joe the Plumber can make payroll, etc., blah blah blah.
Except, of [...]

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