Archive for June, 2011
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., June 2, 2011
It doesn’t take much of a roadblock to derail a bill once the General Assembly calendar turns to June. When the NRA, which has at least half the legislators in its sights pocket, lays out the slippery slope card canard, legislators either cower and/or hold out their hands for campaign cash. And so it came […]
Sarah Palin™ and the Merry Teapartiers
Sarah Palin™ continues her long, strange fleecing of America.
Top Ten Reasons Terrorist Have (so far) Failed to Kill Tony DeLuca
10. Dr. Emmit Brown kept the plutoniom for his time machine.
9. The box cutters were supposed to be in the drawer next to the tin foil. (Who moved them?)
8. DeLuca continues to not travel to Iraq or Aghanistan.
7. In fighting between the Red Brigade and the IRA about who gets the credit
Wednesday Open Thread
Welcome to your daily Open Thread. Only two days til the weekend! When the weather will be better!
Waivers So That Brokers Can Get Paid
Today’s NJ has a spectacular bit of reporting on the effort by the Insurance Commissioner to request waivers for two insurance firms in Delaware.
General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., June 1, 2011
Catch-22 author Joseph Heller spent the bulk of his writing career vainly trying to come up with something that captured the public’s imagination like his seminal anti-war novel. Upon releasing a novel late in his career entitled Something Happened, a critic dismissed it with this two-word review: “Nothing happened.” Which, according to the Legislative Council […]
AP Appoints Liz “Sprinkles” Sidoti As Political Editor
HuffPo notes that AP’s chief political writer Liz Sidoti has been promoted to the position of political editor, putting her fully in charge of AP’s reporting on politics as the 2012 race gathers steam. HuffPo’s article reads much like a Sidoti article – deferential to its subject’s vast sway in Washington. It reads like an […]
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