Delaware Liberal

Monday Open Thread [6.22.15]

Can we please stop pretending that the modern GOP isn’t a racist organization?

The leader of a white nationalist group cited in a chilling manifesto apparently written by the suspect in last week’s massacre at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina donated thousands of dollars to Republican presidential candidates, campaign finance records show.

The Guardian late Sunday first reported that Earl Holt III, the president of the Council of Concerned Citizens, donated to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).

The Council of Concerned Citizens is a white nationalist group based in St. Louis, Missouri

This current southern iteration of the Republican party is racist. Period. It is the Nixonian/Lee Atwater/southern strategy/ party of white grievances BY DESIGN. It doesn’t try to conceal or deny it, so why does the media pretend it isn’t?

You no longer need to drive yourself around Rehoboth endlessly looking for a parking spot.

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) – Ride-sharing company Uber is now doing business in three Delaware beach towns.

WDEL-FM reports the company announced Friday it’s now offering its UberX service in Rehoboth Beach, Dewey Beach and Bethany Beach.

The company says it signed a Memorandum of Understanding last week with Gov. Jack Markell, DelDOT and the DMV that will allow Uber to operate statewide in the near future.

The MOU establishes guidelines for Uber’s drivers.

If Philip Morris thinks its cigarette sales are being hurt by the Surgeon General’s warning, OR – if China thinks our meager labor protections are anti-competitive, they can sue the United States in a secret United Nations/TPP court designed to elevate the status of multinational corporations, because …jobs.  That is the trade deal YOUR Senators endorse.

 The Trans-Pacific Partnership — a cornerstone of Mr. Obama’s remaining economic agenda — would grant broad powers to multinational companies operating in North America, South America and Asia. Under the accord, still under negotiation but nearing completion, companies and investors would be empowered to challenge regulations, rules, government actions and court rulings — federal, state or local — before tribunals organized under the World Bank or the United Nations.

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