Archive for October, 2009
Stimulus Added 1,000+ Jobs to DE Economy
One of the robotic spam attacks of the Rethuglican drones David Anderson and Mike Protack is that the ARRA (the stimulus bill) failed completely in all aspects, and in fact the spending hurt the economy. Like all things said by Republicans, it was false. Not only did the stimulus help grow our economy by 2-3% […]
House Health Care Bill Revealed
Nancy Pelosi is holding a press conference to announce the House health care reform bill. The bill is called “The Affordable Health Care For America Act, ” H.R. 3962. Click through for a review of some key provisions.
Drinking Liberally: Death Panel Edition
This ThursdayTonight, Drinking Liberally will be hosting an event at Homegrown Cafe in Newark. In honor of Halloween and the Summer of Spittle, we will be sponsoring a costume contest that will be judged by our own Death Panel. Homegrown Cafe 126 East Main Street, Newark, DE 19711 October 29th at 7PM Come out and […]
QotD
This edition of the QotD is brought to you by Armstrong Williams. Do you remember Armstrong Williams? He was just one of the media figures secretly paid by the Bush administration to push Bush administration policies. In Williams’s case, he was paid $250K to promote “No Child Left Behind.”
McDowell To White House, Discusses Energy
Did you know that Delaware was pointed out as one of the most improved states in energy efficiency by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE)? Neither did I. Delaware moved up from 32nd in 2008 to 20th in 2009 in the ACEEE scorecard The 2009 report is ACEEE’s third edition of its annual […]
Delaware Budget Hearing Dates Announced
State officials have announced November hearing dates for the FY 2011 budget cycle reports The Community News.
Time To Lift The Cuban Embargo
It’s been 47 years since the embargo on Cuban goods was put in place by the United States and its been 18 years in a row that the United Nations General Assembly has called for the end of the US embargo. It seem back in April of this year that President Obama was moving in […]
Obama Makes Surprise Trip To Dover To Honor Fallen Troops
Last night President Obama made a surprise trip to Dover AFB to observe the ceremony honoring the Americans killed in Afghanistan on Monday. President Obama made an unscheduled, overnight trip to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware overnight to observe up close a “solemn dignified transfer movement,” the event which marks the return to the […]
A Casuality of the War on Drugs
Sens. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). are my new heroes. Kohl and Whitehouse are asking the Drug Enforcement Agency to scale back their enforcement of the Controlled Substance Act as it is “producing a troubling side effect by denying some hospice and elderly patients needed pain medication” reports The Washington Post.
President Obama Signs Hate Crimes Act Today
The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act was signed by President Obama in a White House ceremony today. This new law is an amendment to the Defense Appropriations Bill, which will be signed in a separate event to day. This long needed law (and one promised by the Obama campaign):
US Chamber of Horrors
Delaware Liberal like facts and we like pretty pictures, consequently we love graphs. Daniel Gross at Slate did a fine piece on the failings of the US Chamber of Commerce: But there is a fundamental reason why the chamber isn’t being invited into the rooms where legislation and policy are being made these days: It […]
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