Archive for July, 2008

Is the DE GOP Snubbing John Brady?

Filed in National by on July 16, 2008 27 Comments

That’s what Intercoure’s post at DWA intimates. What gives? In Brady they have a guy who won two elections in Sussex County and this fall he be going against a Democrat that even a die hard party guy like myself might have a hard time voting for. Oh…you know what…I just thought of something… I […]

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Comment Rescue: Copeland Founded What?

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Yesterday some Copeland booster posted Charlie’s  “Challenge Program” email in the comment section.  It  reads in part… In the late 1990s, I co-founded a non-profit organization called the Challenge Program. The Challenge Program’s construction apprenticeship program allows youth in New Castle County the opportunity to learn construction skills and provides many youth with tangible skills […]

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How Much Would Polling In Delaware Cost?

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Delaware’s poltical junkies live in a knowledge vaccum. Other states are crawling with pollsters, but little Delaware gets a measly Farleigh Dickinson polls every five years. It seems to me that polling would be newsmaking, so I have to wonder would it be worth it to use our collective buying power to get some polls […]

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Well this shall prove interesting…

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Boy would I love to see some of the names on this list baby… Hundreds of super-rich American tax cheats have, in effect, turned themselves in to the IRS after a bank computer technician in the tiny European country of Liechtenstein came forward with the names of US citizens who had set up secret accounts […]

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I Was Wrong

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This is an apology to our regular readers for yesterday. I let myself and the tone of the blog go yesterday because, to put it simply, I was tired. To explain rather than excuse myself I got a crappy night’s sleep the night before and the gun lover’s endless myopia, zealotry, circular logic and slippery […]

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Do you think Joe Biden Reads us?

Filed in National by on July 15, 2008 2 Comments

I was just wondering. Because all of a sudden the guy has an opinion on the Republicans. It didn’t seem to start until right around the time I came to Delaware Liberal…..just sayin President Bush and Sen. McCain lump all the threats together,” said Biden. “Al Qaeda, the Shia militia, listen to them speak. Listen […]

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Chimpy McFlightsuit gets real pissy about gas prices today

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Oh, you got to see this one. Why do you think he is getting so snippy?

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DJIA at 10,962 – Can 10,600 be Far Behind?

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Can the country take another six months of George Bush? Oh yeah…Thanks Mike Castle!

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Message To Senator Henry: We Are Watching

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This letter speaks more eloquently than I ever could about the integrity of the Progressive Democrats for Delaware (PDD) endorsement process. July 15, 2008 Dear Senator Henry, Thank you for completing your candidate survey and returning it to the Progressive Democrats for Delaware (PDD) Endorsement Committee. Normally, we would interview a candidate whose survey responses […]

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A Lust For Life

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“Where’s Matt Video” After all of today’s rancor I needed a dose of this guy’s vibe.

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Breaking: Celia Cohen Mentioned Mike Castle Without Praising Him

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To any longtime Celia Cohen readers this passage is shocking: There are three women running for statewide office in 2008, but for the most part it seems like old times — when women got ballot slots that had gone begging. Republican Christine O’Donnell is running against Biden. Democrat Karen Hartley-Nagle is in a Democratic congressional […]

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Only in Canada….

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Drunk teen sex ruled no crime Having sex with a drunken 14-year-old he had plied with alcohol was not a criminal offence by former Calgary man, a judge ruled yesterday. But McIntyre did find Niebergall guilty of sexual assault for placing his genitals on the girl’s face after she passed out — an act the […]

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Check Out Mike Castle’s Track Record And Swoon

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1) Mike Castle loved George Bush so much that he campaigned for him and chaired his campaign here in Delaware TWICE! 2) Mike Castle was an early backer of John McCain. John McCain!? A man who wants to stay in Iraq foer 100 years and who … …just said he’d appoint an Afghanistan czar who […]

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