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Oct. 25 Open Thread: You Can’t Fool Republicans. Democrats Are Sending Those Bombs to Themselves
The campaign of sending crude homemade bombs to various Democrats and liberal icons reached Delaware today when authorities intercepted a suspicious package addressed to Joe Biden (as is typical in Delaware, Biden’s mail was a day late). But conservatives have not been fooled. They know it’s a false-flag operation by Democrats, and you know how? […]
Oct. 24 Open Thread: Boom! Goes the Mailbox
The same genius behind the Soros Mailbox Bomb seems to be a busy little beaver. Similar devices were also mailed to Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barack and Michelle Obama and the White House, though that last one is just the claim of Sarah Huckabee Sanders so it hasn’t yet been confirmed by truthful sources. CNN […]
Oct. 23 Open Thread: When Immigrants Attack
If you’re a conservative, you’ve probably heard by now that a Caravan of tens of thousands of MS-13 rapists and murderers is headed for the American border, planning to storm it on Election Day so George Soros can steal the midterms. Here’s how it actually started. Don’t tell Republicans, though. That would only free them […]
Oct. 19 Open Thread: Can I Still Get a Saudi Assassin Costume for Halloween?
It’s well documented that more people respond to stories of one person’s misfortune than to stories about mass suffering; that’s why those late-night TV ads talk about a single starving child rather than millions. Maybe that explains why, after decades of running one of the planet’s most repressive dictatorships, Saudi Arabia is now finally feeling […]
Oct. 18 Open Thread: The Ghost of James Bayard
Esquire’s Charles Pierce connects the dots from Jamal Khashoggi’s murder by the Saudis to the Constitution’s emoluments clause, and does so with the help of a quote from storied Delaware statesman James A. Bayard, who explained the need for the clause clearly and succinctly during the Constitutional Convention: If presents were allowed to be received […]
Oct. 17 Open Thread: Horseface Pushes McTurtle Out of Headlines
Yesterday’s news cycle was dominated by Trump inaccurately calling Stormy Daniels “horseface,” an insult that simply doesn’t fit her. This was seen as an attempt to distract from Trump’s murderous Saudi buddies, but both stories actually worked to hide the outrage of the day, Mitch McConnell’s declaration that the soaring federal deficit means we must […]
Oct. 16 Open Thread: Oh, Wait, Yeah, Right…You Mean That Journalist
The Saudis aren’t the fastest liars on the planet, that’s for sure. It took them a week to come around to “he died under questioning by rogue elements,” which ranks with only a dog eating homework and a grandmother’s funeral in the Pantheon of Lame Excuses. Turkey found more evidence of Jamal Khashoggi’s death, so […]
Oct. 15 Open Thread: Fellow Worker Gritty
The Legend of Gritty continues to spread, this time with a piece in the New Yorker titled “How the Left won the war for Gritty.” The author notes that Gritty could easily have gone the other way — hockey audiences are notoriously white — but fans disdained him before Jacobin magazine sent out a simple […]
Oct. 13 Open Thread: It’s Not Just Mike Matthews
What happened to Mike Matthews is going on all over America as election season nears a boil. The same day a Connecticut Republican dropped out of his race over Facebook comments, the GOP candidate for governor of Michigan was forced to apologize for a creepster comment he made during taping of a video 30 years […]
Oct. 12 Open Thread: Liberal Reluctantly Sees Some Good in Socialism
In a long essay on the rise of socialism as a political force, Jonathan Chait grapples with the fears of center-left liberals who think socialism’s goals are too scary to most Americans. He also spends a lot of time attacking those goals, but ultimately decides socialism could be good — for liberalism, which he sees […]
Mental Illness on Display in Oval Office, and This Time It’s Not Trump
I’m no Yeezy fan, but I must admit Kanye achieved the near-impossible today at the White House — he went on a mind-bending diatribe that kept Donald Trump quiet for 10 entire minutes. That happens as often as scientists observe a Higgs boson. West ostensibly was there to discuss such serious issues as prison reform […]
Oct. 11 Open Thread: Bloom Energy, the Gift That Keeps on Taking
With apologies to non-baseball fans, Delaware’s contract with Bloom Energy is like the deal the Phillies signed with aging slugger Ryan Howard — an exorbitant amount of guaranteed money for minimal production. Some people have been fighting the deal, which enlisted Delmarva Power to collect the funding from consumers instead of the government, ever since […]
Oct. 10 Open Thread: Biden Blisters Trump in Britain
Once, not so long ago, American politicians made a point of never criticizing a president’s policies to an overseas audience. Earlier today in London, Joe Biden made a point of doing just that. In a speech to Chatham House, a British internationalist think tank, Biden revealed he met PM Theresa May and said Brexit undermined […]
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