Archive for April 24th, 2009

Point and Laugh for 4/24

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Dana says that our enemies do worse, so torture is okay. A commenter who shows some common sense says: When I was six years old, Dana, my mother taught me that just because someone else does it, doesn’t mean I should do it. Congratulations, the United States is not quite as bad as the Taliban, […]

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Commenter QOD

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Anon: What was your first job?

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‘Bulo’s Top 10 2010 Republican Targets-#2

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5th Senatorial District-Cathy Cloutier Caustic film critic Pauline Kael once famously called quasi-film star Don Ameche, “The zero who sings.” Don Ameche, meet Cathy Cloutier. Like Ameche, Cloutier is likable and well-intentioned.  Like Ameche on film, as a legislator, she’s just there, although sans mustache. Like Ameche, she brings nothing else to the table. And […]

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The Tease.

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So Mike Castle is telling Celia Cohen and Roll Call that if he is going to run for an elected office in 2010, he is “leaning more toward running for Senate rather than another term in the House, if he decides to run for Congress again in 2010.” He also reveals that he is getting […]

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Poll: Do you have roadside flares in your car trunk?

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Discuss.

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Around the Horn Friday

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Life marches on in the First State. Except for Delaware Politics, which in the last week (from Friday April 17 to Friday April 24) has had two posts, both concerning that week’s release of Coastal Sussex. Well, I guess it is representative of the problem facing the Republican Party: no new ideas means no new […]

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Final Thought

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Final Thought

Sometimes I wonder if maybe Tom Carper is encouraging Castle to run for Senate, so they can go on riding Amtrak together for 6 more years. Castle would support Carper’s watered-down no-brainer environmental agenda, Carper would support Castle’s money picture schemes, and together they’d protect big corporations from consumers. I’m not saying Carper would actively […]

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