Looks Like There’s A New Blog In Town
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…
The Iraq War is finally over.
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?
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]
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….
... 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.”
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.
"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
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.
Markell Issues Executive Order on FOIA Requests
Governor Markell signed an executive order today that marks a step forward to a more open and transparent state government. He also signed legislation creating a universal FOIA form.
Question of the Day
So now that DADT has been repealed for some time now, and now that we have gone some time with gay soldiers serving our nation openly and honorably without the apocalypse occuring or mass defections of straight homophobic soldiers, can all the right wing Christianist freaks like David Anderson admit that they are so very very hysterically wrong?
Hey, I am not asking the question. A Major on active duty is.
This is Pretty Cool….
.... but I think I would freak out, flip the kayak and be mistakenly eaten by the whale... if I were in the same situation. Thank god there are no whales in the Indian River and Assawoman Bays.
Thursday Open Thread [10.20.11]
New polling on that anti-worker and anti-union evil Republican bill in Ohio: it looks like it will be repealed by the voters. Oh yes, and you can literally have mind blowing sex! No, Delaware Liberal is not becoming a porn site. Click through for the explanation.