Song Of The Day: Aug. 21, 2018
'Somewhere in America, there's a street named after my dad.'
Rethugs Get An AG Candidate, And He’s…A Democrat
An African-American Democrat at that. One Bernard Pepukayi, who has worked for both Ruth Ann Minner and, wait for it, Tom Gordon. Here's the News-Journal article: https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/politics/2018/08/20/bernard-pepukayi-election-delaware-attorney-general-republican/1040132002/ My favorite quote?:…
Aug. 20 Open Thread: The Case of the Vanishing Republicans
The underreported story of the midterms is the exodus of Republicans from elected office. Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report notes that one of every six incumbent Republicans is…
Blueberry Pancakes Reign Resplendent
The highest and best use of blueberries is in pancakes. Democratic Socialist, Republicans (like Tom Carper), White Nationalists (like Ken Simpler and the rest of the GOP), Antifa, Sendero Luminoso,…
Song Of The Day: Aug. 20, 2018
We begin 'Thoroughfares That Don't Exist...Or Do They?' Week with a visit to Lonely Avenue:
Aug. 19 Open Thread: You Can’t Corner Someone in an Oval Office
The New York Times got Trump's dander up yesterday with the story that White House counsel Don McGahn has spent something like 30 hours in interviews cooperating with to the…
Climate change is a hoax. Nothing to see here folks… move along.
CHENGANNUR, India (AP) — Some 800,000 people have been displaced and over 350 have died in the worst flooding in a century in southern India’s Kerala state, officials said Sunday,…
Delaware State News Highlights Carper’s Support from Out of State PACs
Kerri Harris' ability to clearly define who Tom Carper is during this primary has been world class. I mean, Kent County Democrats waking up to this on the front page…
Song Of The Day: Aug. 19, 2018
'People get ready, there's a train a'comin'...' Curtis Mayfield writes a Gospel song for the ages:
Aug. 18 Open Thread: If Power Corrupts, What Does It Do to the Already Corrupt?
Michael Gerson, the Bush speechwriter turned conservative WaPo columnist, writes a "no shit, Sherlock" column for the ages: Our republic will survive Trump, he intones, but it will never be…
Song Of The Day: Aug. 18, 2018
Written by Steve Goodman, sung by Arlo Guthrie. Definitely in the conversation for best train song ever:
Aug. 17 Open Thread: We All Know He’s Guilty
Josh Marshall addresses the only important question in American politics: The greatest conceit in public life today is the notion that we don’t already know President Trump is guilty. ...…
Song Of The Day: Aug. 17, 2018
Aretha, waitin' on a train to bring her 'rooster' home: