In the middle of the news conference with Mr Maliki, a reporter stood up and shouted “this is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog,” before hurtling his shoes at Mr Bush, narrowly missing him. [source] Here’s the kicker, if by Western standards, Palestinian kids throwing rocks are terrorists, then what about Iraqi journalists [...]

How fast can someone put a book together on President-elect Obama? Well, on the day after Obama won the election, The Guardian created a Flickr group to find a creative way of capturing the victory. The group, which now has over 1,600 members, quickly became a collaborative effort to send various messages to Obama and [...]

Wearing a traditional Peruvian poncho, President George W. Bush gestures as Japan’s Prime Minister Taro Aso stands below before the official group photo of the 16th summit of the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation, APEC, in Lima, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson) I am sure going to miss you…

…a local Jordanian newspaper dared to wonder… Honestly, it’s too embarrassing to even translate.

Although I doubt many on this side of the ocean are staying up all night to watch this moment in history, I’ve decided to give in to my political tendencies and monitor how this election all comes together. Who knows. Maybe four years from now this blog won’t be around. At least I’ll get to [...]

It’s been a long journey, not only for Americans or their presidential candidates, but for the world as well. It’s been like some sort of global competition to see who will become the next president of the world – and in a way that may be more true than false. It’s been the costliest election [...]

Probably inspired by this post, the always creative Nadine sent this to me and I was rolling on the ground laughing by the end of it. This is probably one of the coolest things to come out on the Internet when it comes to these elections. It’s designed to encourage US citizens to vote, but [...]

I’m still loving the whole cultural element that has emerged from this election. The “Five Friends” campaign is a pretty interesting usage of Hollywood star power to encourage Americans to vote. It’s kind of ironic that in a democratic country you need the likes of Will Smith and Tom Cruise to give you a reason [...]