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May 18 Open Thread: Sports Betting Won’t Help Casinos, Says Casino CEO Begging State for Cash

By Alby May 18, 201820 Comments

Delaware's casinos like to cry poormouth. The ink is barely dry on the Supreme Court's ruling that states can legalize sports betting and the racinos have already announced plans to…

May 17 Open Thread: How Big Is It, Rudy?

By Alby May 17, 20184 Comments

Short stack this morning because I have another engagement and haven't had time to digest yesterday's events. This caught my eye, though, considering that Team Trump signaled its intent to…

May 16 Open Thread: Democratic Voters, Like NASCAR Drivers, Turn Left

By Alby May 16, 20184 Comments

The Pennsylvania primaries saw many left-leaning Democrats defeat the mainstream party's preferred candidates. Four of them were also backed by the Democratic Socialists of America. All four were women, and…

May 15 Open Thread: Future of Democratic Party at Stake Yet Again This Week

By Alby May 15, 201835 Comments

It's primary day in several states, including Pennsylvania, and the national punditocracy has made clear it will claim the results shall determine the future of the Democratic Party. It's true…

SCOTUS Scraps Federal Ban on Sports Betting

By Alby May 14, 20184 Comments

The News Journal is spinning today's Supreme Court decision 7-2 decision throwing the sports-betting decision back to the states as a loss of Delaware's East Coast monopoly on sports betting,…

May 14 Open Thread: He Who Commands the Media Has Command of Everything

By Alby May 14, 20181 Comment

Despicable as he is, Trump is unquestionably great at one thing: Playing the media. That's the answer to the perpetual question, "How did Trump win?" and it explains a lot…

Politico Names Coons GOP’s Favorite Democrat

By Alby May 14, 20185 Comments

Last week Politico published a story that's probably been framed and hung in Chris Coons' study already. It's approving headline: "Meet the GOP's Favorite Democrat." It recounts in some detail…

Greg Lavelle Is a Republican. Pass It On.

By Alby May 12, 201824 Comments

I woke up this morning to a hand-delivered election mailer in my front door touting the candidacy of one "Greg Lavelle, Our State Senator." According to this mailer, Mr. Lavelle…

May 12 Open Thread: Maryland Peckerwoods Threaten Civil War

By Alby May 12, 20182 Comments

The ignorant will always be with us, but I'll be satisfied when they go back to being ashamed of it. As it stands, "Ignorant and Proud of It" is the…

May 11 Open Thread: Study Finds Charters an Existential Threat to Public Education

By Alby May 11, 201829 Comments

The problem with arguing from facts is that you have to take the time to gather them. So now we have a study that reaches the same conclusion Delawareans reached…

Yesterday Proved Again Why Russia and Stormy Matter

By Alby May 9, 20187 Comments

A lot of otherwise right-thinking people seem to think that the Trump controversies involving Russia on the one hand and porn stars on the other are distractions from the real…

May 8 Open Thread: Pervs ❤️ New York

By Alby May 8, 20187 Comments

Calling all pervs -- there's a government job for you in New York, at least if you're a male Democrat. Eliot Spitzer's call girl problem looks tame next to Anthony…

May 7 Open Thread: Anything Trump Can Do, He Can Do Trumpier

By Alby May 7, 20182 Comments

If you're having a race to the bottom, you shouldn't invite a guy who makes his living underground. Don Blankenship, America's most lethal boss, went ballistic this morning when Trump…