Archive for 2010
Delaware and 10 Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States in Pact to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Fuels
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
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 nomination (gee, a newly-minted Republican doesn’t pass the purity test?), angry former donors and now faces the resignation of almost his entire staff. The quitting […]
More Security Checks and the Race to Whole Body Screening
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)
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
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 who’s district is mostly likely to disappear – none other than anti-census nut Michele Bachmann: The Star-Tribune says in its editorial over the weekend: It’s […]
Monday Open Thread
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 interesting graph: health care spending per capita vs. life expectancy. The U.S. is a big outlier on the graph. In general life expectancy increases with […]
Has Delaware’s 2010 Biggest Political Blunder Already Taken Place?
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 political and public policy malpractice, unless reversed, will likely lead to the Democrats losing control of the State House of Representatives. And it will be on […]
Vote For Me, I Want To Do Nothing
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 and is considered a moderate which is probably a good fit for an overwhelmingly Democratic state like Delaware. So, he’s invincible right? Yesterday’s News Journal […]
Was Fox In On The Scam?
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 biggest stars, like Glenn Beck, reporting from the protests. One of the PACs raised money from the tea party protestors, but most of the money […]
The Aughts: The Failed Conservative Experiment
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 naughts, because this decade, no matter what anyone on the right might say, was conservatism on trial. You want less taxes? You got less taxes. […]
FOX News Has Reached Televangelist Status
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 as a golfer, Hume says, but it remains to be seen whether he will recover as a person. “He’s said to be a Buddhist,” Hume […]
2009: The Year in Right Wing Buffoons, Racists, Misogynists, Homophobes and All-Around Idiots
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
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 seems at least one of my two children have a substitute teacher almost every week. In fact, the words I hear most from my kids, […]
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