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After about 199,088 of 266,935 votes have been counted, it looks like Halla Tómasdóttir was elected as the new president of Iceland. Congratulations, Halla!

It's a pity that Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, who's been president for the last eight years, did not stand for election again; I was actually sad when I heard his announcement to this effect in his ( Read more... )

I just listened to Guðni Th. Jóhannesson's new year's address for 2024. He's the president of Iceland, of course, and had a lot of good and interesting things to say. But among other things he also announced that he had decided not to stand for election again, so when a new president's elected this summer, it will not be Guðni ( Read more... )

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From Allan J. Lichtman, Predicting the Next President: The Keys to the White House (2020 Edition), p. viii-ix:

A properly functioning democracy demands not only fair and accurate systems for voting, but also a candid and wide-ranging exploration of crucial issues and ideas by the presidential candidates and their parties. Yet every four years ( Read more... )

Congratulations Guðni Th. Jóhannesson on being reelected president of Iceland!


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In the wake and on the occasion of the recent US presidential election, I will remain silent and instead let Dr. Rumack from Airplane! speak for me:


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US-American politics in a nutshell, courtesy of the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin:

When he met Obama, [Michael] Stautmanis [of The Barack Obama Foundation] confessed, “I thought he was an egghead.”

But then he saw Obama do a left-handed jump shot on the basketball court, Stautmanis said, and he realized the future president was not someone to be ( Read more... )

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Just in case you've not heard it yet, the US Supreme Court has struck down remaining state bans on gay marriage, effectively making it legal and available throughout the entire USA. SCOTUSblog has an explanation in plain English:

Today [...] Justice Kennedy again joined Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena ( Read more... )