July 2011 – Page 7 – Delaware Liberal

Tuesday Open Thread

By Unstable Isotope July 19, 20119 Comments

The Tuesday edition of your semi-daily open thread.

Take the “I promise to kick Grover Norquist in the balls” pledge

By jason330 July 19, 201112 Comments

A New Tax Pledge (Involving Grover Norquist's Balls): Let us say, and why not, that the Rude Pundit created an organization, one of yer fancy 501c3's or some such shit,…

Banning Kids from Restaurants

By cassandra_m July 19, 2011174 Comments

The owner of McDain's Restaurant and Golf Center in Monroeville, Pa (outside of Pittsburgh) has decided that kids under the age of 6 are banned from dining at his restaurant. What do you think about this?

Murdoch And Parliment

By pandora July 19, 201114 Comments

If you're watching keep us informed in this thread! First up, Murdoch team's request to read an opening statement was denied.

Seriously. Who is Running for What?

By jason330 July 19, 20119 Comments

It is some 470 days until the next election and in politics I've heard that you need money and time to run an effective campaign. You might be able to…

God’s Candidate

By Unstable Isotope July 19, 201116 Comments

Who is God backing in the 2012 GOP presidential primary?

Late Night Video — President Obama Discusses Getting Politics Done

By cassandra_m July 18, 20116 Comments

This video is from the White House and comes from a surprise visit President Obama made to a group of College Democrats, Republicans and Independents back in March. This is very compelling -- if anything because this philosophy of governing is very evident in how he has worked to date.

Whistleblower’s Death Added To Murdoch Scandal

By pandora July 18, 20114 Comments

I'm not surprised. Truthfully, I lost the ability to be surprised about this scandal a week ago. In another twist in the News Of The World scandal, a former reporter…

Dan Savage vs. Marcus Bachmann

By pandora July 18, 201118 Comments

Let me begin by saying that I had no opinion, whatsoever, about Michelle Bachmann's husband. I had no idea who he was. I first saw him on TV as I…

Monday Open Thread

By Unstable Isotope July 18, 201120 Comments

The Monday edition of your semi-daily open thread.

NJ Truthiness Watch — Wagging Their Finger at American Political Debate

By cassandra_m July 18, 20114 Comments

The Sunday NJ brings us an editorial with this amusing observation:

OK, You Can Panic

By liberalgeek July 18, 20116 Comments

As you may know, on Friday about 11 hours of comments (and posts) were disappeared from the blog. This appears to have been a glitch on the redundant database servers…

The Real Victim Is Rupert Murdoch

By Unstable Isotope July 18, 201111 Comments

The Wall Street Journal finally notices there's a huge international scandal encompassing their newspaper, but it's no big deal.