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Delaware and 10 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States in Pact to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Fuels

By cassandra_m January 5, 2010

This was announced on 12/30 -- sorry for the delay is seeing this! You can see the entire Press Release here. The key info: Gov. Jack Markell joined the governors of 10 other Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states today in announcing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) among the states that underscores their commitment toward developing a regional Low Carbon Fuel Standard in a regional effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fuels for vehicles and other uses.

From The Department Of Karma, Part 2

By Unstable Isotope January 4, 2010

First term Democrat-turned-Republican Rep. Parker Griffith didn't get the reception he hoped for when he switched to the Republican party. Griffith will face at least two challengers for the Republican…

More Security Checks and the Race to Whole Body Screening

By cassandra_m January 4, 201012 Comments

New security rules have been implemented for people coming to the US from certain countries: But American citizens, and most others who are not flying through those 14 nations on their way to the United States, will no longer automatically face the full range of intensified security that was imposed after the attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight, officials said.

Some Tea Partiers Are Just Bad Spellers (and Racists)

By liberalgeek January 4, 20104 Comments

Remember this past summer, when we were all debating whether or not the tea-party movement was racist or not? One of the interesting parts of the movement was creative sign spelling. Today brings us news that the two issues are related (as if we didn't have some supicions all along).

From The Department Of Karma

By Unstable Isotope January 4, 20102 Comments

This weekend the Minnesota Star Tribune wrote an editorial calling on Minnesotans to fill out their census forms. Minnesota is in danger of losing a Congressional district in 2010. Guess…

Monday Open Thread

By Unstable Isotope January 4, 201022 Comments

It's your back-to-work open thread time. For a lot of people, today is their first day back at work for 2010. Are you ready? Nate Silver at Fivethirtyeight posted this…

Has Delaware’s 2010 Biggest Political Blunder Already Taken Place?

By El Somnambulo January 4, 201023 Comments

Unless there's an even bigger example of political and policy stupidity waiting in the wings, the answer is Yes, and it was announced in December of 2009. This example of…

Vote For Me, I Want To Do Nothing

By Unstable Isotope January 4, 20108 Comments

Mike Castle wants to be a Senator. By all measures, he's a great Republican recruiting victory, he's a popular former governor and popular multi-term Representative. He has high name recognition…

Was Fox In On The Scam?

By Unstable Isotope January 4, 20106 Comments

The "grassroots" groups that grew up around the tea party movement were generally funded by industry-backed groups. The tea parties were heavily promoted by Fox News with some of their…

The Aughts: The Failed Conservative Experiment

By Unstable Isotope January 3, 20108 Comments

Devilstower's at Daily Kos blogged today about the lost decade of aughts. I recommend reading the whole thing if you get a chance but here's an excerpt: Don't forget the…

FOX News Has Reached Televangelist Status

By pandora January 3, 201052 Comments

Not that anyone with a brain didn't see this coming. Via Balloon Juice: Brit Hume had some advice for Tiger Woods during this week’s “Fox News Sunday.” Woods will recover…

2009: The Year in Right Wing Buffoons, Racists, Misogynists, Homophobes and All-Around Idiots

By cassandra_m January 3, 20101 Comment

That is the title of this blog post from Ron Reagan's Air America blog. I never get to to hear Ron Regan's show, but he can be very good of even pretty wonky topics. So it was fun to hear him have on at the expense of wingnut buffoonery this past year.

Substitute Teachers Can’t Substitute For The Real Thing

By pandora January 3, 201021 Comments

The New York Times has an interesting Op-Ed concerning substitute teachers, which, I admit, is something I had never really thought about before. And I probably should have since it…