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Oct. 24 Open Thread: Boom! Goes the Mailbox

By Alby October 24, 20183 Comments

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…

Oct. 23 Open Thread: When Immigrants Attack

By Alby October 23, 201813 Comments

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…

Oct. 19 Open Thread: Can I Still Get a Saudi Assassin Costume for Halloween?

By Alby October 19, 201823 Comments

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…

Oct. 18 Open Thread: The Ghost of James Bayard

By Alby October 18, 20182 Comments

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…

Oct. 17 Open Thread: Horseface Pushes McTurtle Out of Headlines

By Alby October 17, 20187 Comments

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…

Oct. 16 Open Thread: Oh, Wait, Yeah, Right…You Mean That Journalist

By Alby October 16, 201820 Comments

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…

Oct. 15 Open Thread: Fellow Worker Gritty

By Alby October 15, 201817 Comments

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…

Oct. 13 Open Thread: It’s Not Just Mike Matthews

By Alby October 13, 20185 Comments

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…

Oct. 12 Open Thread: Liberal Reluctantly Sees Some Good in Socialism

By Alby October 12, 201812 Comments

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…

Mental Illness on Display in Oval Office, and This Time It’s Not Trump

By Alby October 11, 20187 Comments

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…

Oct. 11 Open Thread: Bloom Energy, the Gift That Keeps on Taking

By Alby October 11, 20186 Comments

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…

Oct. 10 Open Thread: Biden Blisters Trump in Britain

By Alby October 10, 201812 Comments

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…

Oct. 9 Open Thread: This Just In… Tom Carper Loves Big Pharma…That Is All

By Alby October 9, 201822 Comments

The State News looked into the anti-Carper full-page mailers attacking him for his Big Pharma ties. They found the Patients for Affordable Drugs Action but didn't get a whole lot…