Barack H. Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., today…

In my first attempt at this week’s Dustinland, I drew a comic about how 2009 is going to be, what I call, YEAR OF THE SUCK. That’s because this year is going to be horrible in pretty much every way. You know, because we have no money and stuff. Anyway, that comic just turned out [...]

Excuse me while I continue crying while giggling intensely. I just can’t help it.

UPDATE (11pm ET) – It’s Barack Obama; the 44th President and first African American to be elected Chief Executive.
It’s Republican Senator John McCain vs. Democratic Senator Barack Obama to determine the next President of the United States… and we’ll post results here once the major news organizations start calling it… in [...]

“Senators McCain and Obama — you are still U.S. Senators, right? — you have both posted intricate plans on your Web sites detailing what you would do to help the economy recover. What have you done to bring your plan to Congress in the form of a resolution?”

It’s official: following a snarky-yet-fairly-entertaining speech from Rudy Guiliani and strong speech from VP nominee/Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican Party’s delegates have voted, and John Sydney McCain III has secured the GOP nomination for President of the United States. One more big speech tomorrow, then the countdown to the first debate on September [...]

The political playoff season is over. It’s been a long, nasty dirty fight, but it looks like the Democrats have finally made a decision as to who they are sending forward in this year’s political championship series.

According to NYTimes.com, John McCain won Tuesday’s Idaho Republican Primaries. Here are the results…

With the Libertarian Party’s choice of Sunday of former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr as its candidate for United States President, following is an updated list of “third party” candidates who have registered with the Federal Election Commission for this year’s election, in alphabetical order (credit: Wikipedia)…

Regarding today’s Oregon Primaries, Barack Obama has been projected the winner by all the major news networks. With 95% of precincts reporting, Obama has a 58.7-41.3% lead over Hillary Clinton, and will take 18 pledged delegates to his opponent’s 12.
Overall on the night, Hillary has closed the pledged delegate gap, but — [...]