Merry Christmas from David Carlson Politics!

First of all I would just like to say Merry Christmas! I hope everyone is having a good time with friends and family. We just opened gifts with my close family, and my sister got me the book The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging. It was totally unexpected and I am very excited to read it and gain some knowledge from the most successful political blog on the net (very liberal, but that is beside the point). I have a lot of books to go through, and I can't wait to share about them in the near future.

What I love about blogging is that I can get my ideas, opinions, and viewpoints down on paper. I often get into discussions about politics, and before my blog I had found myself repeating myself over and over and over. Now when I find myself in a political discussion and the question is "why do you support ending the war on drugs?" I can point them to my blog where I have written a number of posts on the issue. I have met a number of really cool people through my blog, as well as gotten to know some people better who I already have met.

I would like to recognize everyone who has helped (and motivated) me as I have started blogging this year:

• Judd at hanging on to nothing
• James at DINKS finance
• Bert, Dane, and everyone else at the National Party Times

Thanks for all you have done and here's to another successful year of blogging.