Archive for October 21st, 2011

Looks Like There’s A New Blog In Town

Filed in Delaware by pandora on October 21, 2011 • 11 Comments

Steve Newton brings us Civil But Disobedient. I hadn’t realized Steve had started his own blog until I surfed over his name in the comments, and what do I find when I visit? A post calling out Delaware Liberal. Just like the good old days!

The Iraq War is finally over.

Filed in National by Delaware Dem on October 21, 2011 • 16 Comments

Sources tell ABC News that President Obama will announce today that U.S. troops in Iraq will draw down to zero by the end of the year.

What kind of blackmail material does Nancy Cook have?

Filed in National by Delaware Dem on October 21, 2011 • 6 Comments

Markell will appoint former State Senator Nancy Cook to serve out the remainder of Thomas Weyant’s four-year term, which expires in December of next year. Weyant announced last month that he would retire on November 1.

Friday Open Thread [10.21.11]

Filed in International, National by Delaware Dem on October 21, 2011 • 4 Comments

Coons seeks to ban bath salts. Hillary has a laugh with Karzai about the hillarity that is Herman Cain. Uncanny similarities between 2012 and 2004. Obama on Mt. Rushmore? He would be there already if he were a Republican.

Everyone Wants to Raise Taxes….

Filed in National by Delaware Dem on October 21, 2011 • 5 Comments

… the difference is the Republicans want to raise them on the middle class and the poor. The Democrats want to raise them on the rich who can afford it.

“Never vote for a party that wants to prevent you from voting.”

Filed in National by Delaware Dem on October 21, 2011 • 1 Comment

So a news story came out analyzing South Carolina’s new voter photo identification law. The analysis by the Associated Press finds that the law would hit black precincts the hardest, disenfranchising nearly half of the black voters at the historically black college in Columbia, South Carolina. And Republicans celebrated.

Georgetown Elementrary Needs Sweatpants.

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on October 21, 2011 • 0 Comments

“Our nurse is in desperate need of sweatpants in sizes 5 – 6, 7- 8, 10 -12 in unisex colors. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated as our needs continue to grow at Georgetown Elementary.”

The Birthers Have a New Angle, and a New Target

Filed in National by Delaware Dem on October 21, 2011 • 9 Comments

Well, they haven’t given up on their paranoid conspiracy theory that somehow one day old Barack Obama traveled to Hawaii from Kenya in 1961 to plant newspaper announcements in the local island papers, but they are taking employing a new strategy to prevent brown and black people from assuming offices of power, and they are going after a Republican darling, probably only because he is brown, but also probably to garner some bipartisan or nonpartisan cred.