The Return of Ask Dr. Liberal

Is your political party adrift?  Your marriage in crisis?  Your prize Holstein under-producing or your teenager not getting you while your shaman, priest or large animal vet stands idly by?…

Pat Robertson: Haiti Deserved It.

What is with Pat Robertson and always saying victims deserved their tragedies. Whether it be hurricanes, terrorist attacks like 9/11 or earthquakes, the victims are somehow the perpetrator, according to the oh so Christian Pat Robertson.

Wednesday Open Thread

It's Wednesday and today's open thread has a theme: polling. A new poll by CNN shows that Americans are in line with Obama's political ideology. Even in most generic poll…

DE Sports and Video Lottery Commission Recommends Against New Casinos

...or -- perhaps we should call this Watching the Delaware Legislature Put Their Ninny Hats On. Ginger Gibson at the News Journal documents the atrocities. This is a completely mind-boggling recommendation by this Commission and flies in the face of the recommendations (and data gathered) by their own commissioned study: Several lawmakers insisted that any financial harm to the existing racetracks was unacceptable, even if job losses there were compensated for with new jobs at new venues.

California Prop 8 Trial

Right now in California a trial to determine the constitutionality of Prop 8 is just underway. Prop 8 is the proposition that overturned a court ruling in California allowing same…

Ginger Gibson Finds the JFC Still Not Open

Last year's hard won HB 1 victory was supposed to mean that legislature business was to be done in the light of day -- with ample and good notice to the public of meetings and hearings as well as making sure that minutes or recordings of meetings were made and made public.

Vigilantism Justified

Since when is killing someone performing a legal procedure justified? Via Digby: Before the first juror is selected or witness called, a decision allowing a confessed killer to argue he…

Tuesday Open Thread

It's Tuesday and it's open thread time. Today's open thread has a theme: humor. I'll give you two examples. Example #1, from Daily Kos, the new presidential timeline: According to…