This election was tough.  Hard hitting, loud, boisterous, negative, slanderous, and sometimes mean spirited.  All of us have enjoyed and distressed over the emotional roller coaster.  This was better than any Hitchcock thriller - if tense excitement is what you like.  But the election is over and we are seeing the emotional aftermath.  We can [...]

Grief is an emotional response to loss. Our original curiosity was around the five stages of grief after the election - but the folks who produced this video recognized the grief began before the cancerous terminal patient died. Curiosity drove us to enter “Election Grief” in the youtube search engine.  This one video stood out [...]

by Frank James
When President-elect Obama was campaigning and talking about change, he probably wasn’t thinking of this kind of change: people going on a gun-buying spree in reaction to his election.
Here’s an excerpt from our colleague Howard Witt’s report today:
HOUSTON — A week after the election of Barack Obama, gun buyers across the country are [...]

“. . . But, in a larger sense, we can not improve, we can not consecrate - we can not hallow - this ground. This brave man, who struggled here, has consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. . . . It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated [...]

Well, this about takes the cake.  Technology is advancing rapidy - but look at this - you still have to read these words.  That is about as old as Abraham.  The differencs is that we have people from Hobart, Australia, reading this commentary.  They might be rednecks but they are able to use the internet.
CNN [...]

By Michael Falcone
As all eyes turn to President-elect Barack Obama, his transition to the White House and the changing political landscape in Washington and across the country, epilogues to the 2008 presidential race abound.
Today The Times’s Elisabeth Bumiller goes inside the McCain campaign to find out what went wrong in the closing days [...]