Archive for March, 2011
Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Tues., March 22, 2011
The big news: $155 million. That’s right, DEFAC (Delaware Economic & Financial Advisory Council), the group that officially sets the estimated revenues for the state, came out and identified an additional $155 million in state revenue, about 50% in the current fiscal year, and 50% for the upcoming fiscal year. While this is not the […]
It’s Always Sunny/DWTS Predictions Mashup
FYI…Rob McElhenney as Mac, was rocking a Deer Park Tavern T-Shirt on tonight’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, but that is ancelillary to the main point of this post. To wit…
Video from the Save the Working Class Rally Last Week
For those of us who coulodn’t be at the rally, there is video of portions of it up on You Tube. There was not a microphone, so according to Jim Westhoff, “we had to stand on the park bench and do it old school. It felt very Huey Long-ish.”
Libya Is Not Iraq
Marc Ambinder explains how the military intervention in Libya lays out a new standard for international interventions.
Good Old Time in Sussex County
Last night was the annual Sussex County Democrats Spring Dinner, held once again at the CHEER Center in Georgetown. A sell-out crowd of 200 people (and this is an off year) gathered for some good food (catered by Georgia House) and live and silent auctions. The main speaker was Lt. Governor Matt Denn, who really […]
Intelligent Design Is Not Science
Read this statement: The measure from Republican state Rep. Bill Zedler would block higher education institutions from discriminating against or penalizing teachers or students based on their research into intelligent design or other theories that disagree with evolution. Zedler said he filed the bill because of cases in which colleges had been hostile to those […]
This “Agencia Loco” Clip Will Make You Happy
A telenovela about a dysfunctional advertising agency, revolving around a plucky junior copywriter in a wheelchair and the raging executive who accuses her of stealing bananas.
While Slashing the Budget of the IRS…
turning the IRS into the uterus police.
Under a GOP-backed bill expected to sail through the House of Representatives, the Internal Revenue Service would be forced to police how Americans have paid for their abortions. To ensure that taxpayers complied…
Time To Make The Districts-Part Trois
In which we create a new Senate district downstate. But…will the ‘new’ district be truly new? I propagandize, you decide. OK, kids, for those of you who came late to class, or just didn’t bother to show up, you will want to read these two seminal treatises on redistricting here and here. Well, perhaps not […]
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