Posts under ‘Politics’

I woke up this morning to a snow covered landscape; the kind where everything seems new and fresh and even the ugly is temporarily made beautiful. And so it is today, when Barack Obama, the first African-American president has just been inaugurated as the 44th president of the United States; things on which we’d given [...]

The writing has been on the wall for print and now, for the first time, a Pew Research poll shows that the Internet has surpassed all other media except for television as the main source for national and international news for those surveyed.
For the first time in a Pew survey, more people say they rely [...]

The AP is reporting that Michael Sohn, Chris Shays’ campaign manager for the last several elections is the target of suspicions that money was misappropriated from Shays’ campaign fund, according to two Republicans familiar with the matter.
Last Friday, former Congressman Shays, revealed that following a post-election review, his campaign became aware of a series [...]

Four years ago this month, my then eight year-old daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. Since then, we have lived with the daily struggle of trying to live with this condition, trying to keep her blood sugars in balance yet allow her to continue the activities of an ordinary twelve year old. It isn’t [...]

In these difficult economic times, you’ve got to wonder how it’s going to go down with “Joe Six Pack” and all those other “Hockey Moms” down at the carpool when they hear about Sarah Palin’s big ticket shopping spree courtesy of the Republican National Committee. Yes, all you fiscal conservatives out there – aren’t [...]

While I’ll be the first to admit that she wasn’t the train wreck I expected, I sat through the Vice-Presidential debate wondering if it is simply genetically impossible for Sarah Palin to answer a question with a straight answer.
I also became extremely irate when she kept repeating NU-CU-LAR, a la George Bush (whom, you [...]

Despite an economic climate where even the people who I normally call when I’m freaking out about the stock market are freaking out about the stock market, the Himes campaign raised over $800,000 towards his Congressional run in the 4th CD in the third quarter.
The final numbers have yet to be confirmed, but it’s already [...]

Apparently, as he watched the potential agreement for his $700 billion financial bailout package fall apart in a sea of acrimony yesterday, President Bush remarked, with surprising eloquence: “If money isn’t loosened up, this sucker could go down.”
He’s not kidding. Yesterday, with the demise of Washington Mutual, we saw the largest bank failure [...]

My daughter and I went to our first NASCAR event at Riverhead Raceway last weekend (you can read how that came about
here) and it was a real eye opener for both of us. As my daughter commented when we waiting to buy refreshments, “It’s not at all like going to watch the US Open tennis, [...]

As an author of books for teens, I’m a firm believer that fiction can help young people work through feelings and situations without having to experience them. Or, at a time in their life when they feel like they are the only one who is fat, ugly, and dorky (I felt all of these and [...]