An American

The author is an American, Christian, proud father, lucky husband, Irish Scottish heritage and a Texan by choice. I believe the U.S.A. is the greatest nation on earth, the greatest in history. Never has a nation freed or saved so many. When was there ever any nation that went to war, gave the land back, then put billions into it? I believe our core must include to take care of our young, our old, and our sick, then to do so for others in the world less fortunate than we are.

Sunday, December 28, 2008

The Year in Review - Dave Barry

...Barack Obama, in a historic triumph, is elected the nation's first black president since the second season of "24," setting off an ecstatically joyful and boisterous all-night celebration that at times threatens to spill out of the New York Times newsroom. Obama, following through on his promise to bring change to Washington, quickly begins assembling an administration consisting of a diverse group of renegade outsiders, ranging all the way from lawyers who attended Ivy League schools and then worked in the Clinton administration to lawyers who attended entirely different Ivy league schools and then worked in the Clinton administration, to Hillary Clinton...