In Which We See a Castle vs Biden Senate Race Becomes the CW

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Tom Schaller over at Five Thirty Eight takes a long look at the possibility of a Republican taking the Senate seat previously held by Barack Obama. He cites an article written over at the Rothenberg Political Report notes that a seat held by someone who has gone to the White House (either President or VP) has flipped 50% of the time, but since the numbers involved are pretty small it is hard to know what that means. But before he gets to looking at the landscape of the Senate race in IL, he stops in Delaware first:

Why You Should Come on Saturday

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I was having lunch at the Iron Hill Brewery with a friend when my phone rang. The caller ID said that it was "home" calling. "Hi Honey." Silence. "Hello?" There was a slight catching of the breath on the other end of the line. "Honey?" "The doctor called... It's cancer"

Lobbyists to the IC’s Office?

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On 30 July 2009, the Delaware Insurance Commissioner's office sent out a Press Release announcing their "new" initiative for "the formation of a new revenue generating division within the Department of Insurance entitled the Bureau of Captive and Financial Insurance Products". There was a subsequent Press Release, this time working hard at making the case that this is an economic development task for the state. A bit of small print at the end of the first Press Release caught my attention: