The Teapocalypse

Documented by Jon Stewart -- and when will the traditional media cover this new scandal from the teabaggers???? There are likely teabagging parties all over the US who are appalled at the plastic Jesus on a spring!

Carper Fights For His Base

Earlier this year Carper voted with the Republicans to block an amendment to allow Medicaid and Medicare to negotiate drug prices. It caused quite a stir because Carper railed against…

ACORN Scores A Victory

ACORN has scored a court victory, successfully arguing that Congress's defunding bill was a bill of attainder: A judge has put an injunction on Congress's ban on ACORN funding. U.S.…

Friday Open Thread

Time for your open thread again. Type away and have fun! We've had an invasion of scientific "experts" lately, so I thought you might enjoy this. Wikileaks has the doctoral…

Why Women Don’t Like Sarah Palin

Public Policy has a new poll out on Sarah Palin: Public Policy Polling released a study on Thursday revealing that, one year after bursting onto the national scene, Palin still…

Anybody Not See This Coming?

Via Think Progress: In an interview with National Review today, DeMint said that the tea parties should no longer be thought of as “separate” from the Republican Party: “The GOP…

Governor Markell Discusses Delaware as a Wind Energy Hub

Governor Markell addressed the AWEA's Offhsore Wind Workshop a few weeks back, highlighting his plans to make Delaware a hub of offshore wind energy expertise and manufacturing. We've been enthusiastic about this previously, and we're still enthusiastic. Starting with the U of D really evolving as a major research center for applied alternate energy strategies, to the Bluewater Wind effort, to work to manufacture components here there is great groundwork to grow a real next generation piece of the economy right here.