Archive for January, 2011

Debt Ceiling “Insanity”

Filed in National by pandora on January 3, 2011 • 4 Comments

Are there any grown ups left in the Republican Party? Dealing with the debt limit “as adults” doesn’t appear to be going well. This morning, two right-wing lawmakers — Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and Rep.-elect Mike Kelly (R-Minn.) — reiterated their opposition to raising the debt limit on CBS’s “Face the Nation.” Soon after, Sen. […]

The More Things Change, The More Things Stay The Same

Filed in National by Unstable Isotope on January 3, 2011 • 24 Comments

A U.S. Navy captain made a series of videos using sexual
and homophobic humor and showed it to crew members, even after they
complained.

Prognosticating the Palin Possibility

Filed in National by nemski on January 3, 2011 • 9 Comments

Is Sarah Palin wants the GOP nomination, can she obtain it? Nate Silver at 538 looks at the possibility of Sarah Palin securing the GOP presidential nomination in 2012.

LNV: Duck and Cover

Filed in National by nemski on January 2, 2011 • 0 Comments

Late Night Video: Bert the Turtle shows us what to do in case of an atom bomb hits your town.

Evening Read for Sunday Night

Filed in National by nemski on January 2, 2011 • 6 Comments

Cozy up to your laptop or iPad and enjoy Sunday night’s interesting reads which includes an article for Garden & Gun, a really cool graph and a kind-of-serious article from The Onion.

2010 Top 10 Delaware Liberal Searches

Filed in National by nemski on January 2, 2011 • 1 Comment

The Top 10 searches that people used to get to Delaware Liberal for the stories of 2010

2010 Top 10 Delaware Liberal Stories You Read

Filed in Delaware, National by nemski on January 2, 2011 • 7 Comments

The Top 10 Delaware Liberal posts from 2010 based on what you read.

Kucinich: GOP Might Give Life to Public Option

Filed in National by nemski on January 2, 2011 • 1 Comment

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) said on Fox News that if the Republicans try to dismantle the healthcare legislation passed in the last Congress they may “paradoxically be creating the opening to push single-payer forward again”.

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue Revisited

Filed in National by nemski on January 2, 2011 • 0 Comments

A historian looks at how the President’s control of foreign policy has only increased from the days of Theodore Roosevelt to Barack Obama. There is a long look at the Kennedy Administration which seems pivotal in any understanding of US foreign policy.