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Some Worthy Items Up at TownSquareDelaware.com

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Al Mascitti has a good piece on Delaware’s School Boards.

One class of elected public servants, though, more than earns its keep – members of the state’s school boards, who earn nothing for their service.

I agree with him down the line.

Tom Noyes on the “costs” of renewable energy. Why does he have to keep the drum beat going?

Last week, opponents of renewable energy lobbied hard for a bill to end Delaware’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). The Caesar Rodney Institute and the 9/12 Delaware Patriots jammed a House hearing room arguing that RGGI cost too much and infringed on the rights of citizens.

Happily some well-prepared environmental advocates were on hand to set the record straight on the program’s costs and benefits. It turns out that RGGI, which opponent called “a threat to freedom and liberty,” costs the average household about 38 cents a month—about 0.285 percent of household electricity bills.

Corporate lackeys like “Doctor” Stapleford and “9/12 Delaware Patriots” are relentless with the bullshit.

Lucy O’Donnell gives the low down on taking (real) action on teen sexual activity. News Flash: Delaware teens are having sex, and run a very high risk of pregnancy due to our stupid approach to sex education.

Please Note: None of these decent posts mitigate the fact that Stapleford is a joke and the CRI is a think tank in the same way that Fox News is a news channel.

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  2. Jason330
    May 19, 2011,

    That was a good one as well. Surprising in fact, coming from a Republican.

  3. anon
    May 19, 2011,

    Any Republican who criticizes Republicans from the left is quickly drummed out of the GOP. Newt Gingrich became a RINO in less than a week for pointing out the truth about the Ryan budget. Maybe if hundreds of local writers like Staffy all start talking sense, it will become a movement and Newt’s sacrifice will not have been in vain.

  4. Jason330
    May 19, 2011,

    The Newt flame out was truly spectacular. When I first heard him call the Ryan budget “social engineering from the right” I thought that he was really onto a pretty good strategy of trying to claim the middle and frame President Obama as the radical.

    The orthodoxy police on the right, saw it very differently. Now it is five days later and he is good a truly DONE. I can’t imagine a Republican movement that deals with objectivity and reality surviving.

  5. liberalgeek
    May 19, 2011,

    Methinks that you and Tom are there to legitimize what is clearly and extension of CRI.

    Stapleford – Staff
    Butler – Fellow
    Copeland – Sugardaddy
    Burris – Founding member
    Fink – Former director

  6. cassandra_m
    May 19, 2011,

    I’m buying LG drinks too.

    This is shaping up to be Quite The Party.

  7. Jason330
    May 19, 2011,

    Jesus H. Christ Jimmey Cricket! Where were you when I was being sold into white internet slavery?

  9. anon
    May 19, 2011,

    clearly and extension of CRI.

    Another interpretation is that it really is another straight-up Burris brainchild that needed content, and the CRI people just happened to be abundantly available as eager content providers – which is the CRI strategy for metastasizing and taking over public debate.

    In the end I don’t see much difference between CRI and the standard Chamber of Commerce platform. So maybe they are one and the same.

  10. Jason330
    May 19, 2011,

    Anon’s conjecture adds up. Peggy Flemming and Lou Grant are probably partners with Burris. The fact that he will not say anything about the organization of the thing continues to give me heartburn.

  12. jason330
    May 19, 2011,

    Donviti has far too much integrity for that.

  13. Dana Garrett
    May 19, 2011,

    I think that the three posts I read today at TS were quite good: Mascitti, Noyes, Stafford. Stafford’s post was quite illuminating about the Rand influence on Ryan. That explains a lot.

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