Afganistan's President Karzai is ready to concede for a re-election according to Tuesday's New York Times. After what has been a worldwide media spectacle, Karzai has given in international pressures by the Obama administration as well as European allies and a re-election is quickly being rearranged. According to the article, almost a quarter of the votes were fraudulent. We can only wonder how this political tension may or may not affect Obama's strategies for the war in Afghanistan.
In other news, further details unfold in the "Balloon Boy" media scandal, Walter Cronkite's personal papers have been left in the hands of the university he dropped out of, and recycling is on the rise at a national level.
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