June 2011 – Page 8 – Delaware Liberal

Friday Open Thread

By Unstable Isotope June 10, 20116 Comments

The Friday edition of your semi-daily open thread.

It’s Time To NAME THAT SCANDAL!

By Unstable Isotope June 10, 201122 Comments

What should we call the Tigani campaign finance scandal?

Say It Ain’t So, Joe

By Unstable Isotope June 10, 201119 Comments

Joe Biden's presidential campaign received $63,400 of illegal campaign donations from Tigani and NKS.

HUGE Story: Tigani Pleads Guilty to Election Charges

By El Somnambulo June 9, 201137 Comments

The Delaware Way is beginning to crumble. The indictment and guilty plea of Chris Tigani, all taking place within a matter of hours this afternoon, could well hasten its demolition.…

They got an extraordinary bailout funded and guaranteed by the taxpayers of the United States of America -- they still are -- and yet Jamie Dimon of ~~Citibank~~ Chase is whining about regulations from Dodd-Frank:

Buh Bye Newt?

By Unstable Isotope June 9, 201131 Comments

Reports are coming that Newt Gingrich's entire campaign staff quit en masse. Since it's irresponsible not to speculate, what do you think are the reasons? The only media speculation I've…

Bob Herbert is Back

By cassandra_m June 9, 20112 Comments

...and he's writing for The Policy Shop, the in-house blog of the DEMOS group. His piece there is called The Jobs Emergency and America in Crisis:

Thursday Open Thread

By Unstable Isotope June 9, 201133 Comments

The Thursday edition of your semi-daily open thread.

Fun With Lists

By Unstable Isotope June 9, 201132 Comments

How many of these 100 books have you read?

General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thurs., June 9, 2011

By El Somnambulo June 9, 20117 Comments

Cue the music: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi6wNGwd84g[/youtube] Here's something I've never seen before in all my years in Dover: DOVER – State Sen. Michael Katz caused a stir in Legislative Hall on Tuesday…

DeLuca Releases Some Records

By Unstable Isotope June 9, 20112 Comments

Anthony DeLuca has released time sheets but not swipe card data. DeLuca's disclosure bill is also generating a lot of skepticism.

Tom Carper Fails His Paymasters: Cap on Card Fees Stands

By jason330 June 9, 201123 Comments

I feel quite sure that "bank backer" Carper will have plenty of future opportunities to demonstrate his usefulness to Wall Stree

Late Night Video — Hear No Evil

By cassandra_m June 8, 20116 Comments

The so-called Libertarian Rand Paul tells Sean Hannity that he is willing to undermine our freedom of assembly in order to round up people who are listening to people talking (just talking) about the overthrow of the US government. So Steven Colbert observes that (according to Paul) apparently we have Freedom of Speech, but not Freedom of Listen: