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Open Thread Jan. 26: In Dover, More Money Means More Fighting

By Alby January 26, 20182 Comments

Gov. Carney's budget is only a starting point for the Generous Assembly, and Sneaky Pete Schwartzkopf already is making noises about wanting more money to give away as grants-in-aid. An…

Carney Budget: Raises All Around

By Alby January 25, 201826 Comments

Gov. John Carney unveiled his budget earlier today, and the decent DEFAC numbers have him feeling expansive. His blueprint calls for $4.25 billion in spending, an increase of 3.5% that…

Art for Art’s Sake, Money for God’s Sake

By Alby January 25, 201811 Comments

That refrain from an old 10cc song leapt to mind when I saw this story about the White House asking the Guggenheim Museum to loan it a Van Gogh, "Landscape…

Open Thread Jan. 25: Horndogs and Tide Pods

By Alby January 25, 201814 Comments

We have an apparent blockade on real news this morning. The interwebs are clogged with stories about celebrities being accused of rape and sexual assault, a veritable cornucopia of horndogitude.…

If Eagles Win, Delaware Loses $625,766

By Alby January 24, 201812 Comments

What's a Super Bowl victory by the Eagles worth to the team's Delaware fans? It better be more than the sum in the headline, because that's the difference to the…

Open Thread Jan. 24: KHN, Scorned as the One Who Ran and Won

By Alby January 24, 201814 Comments

Old-timers (and "Big Lebowski" fans) will remember "Branded," the Chuck Connors Western series about a frontier soldier cashiered for cowardice. The opening credits showed his ritual humiliation -- stripped of…

Biden Confirms: McConnell Wouldn’t Condemn Russian Election Meddling

By Alby January 23, 20181 Comment

Joe Biden stopped by one of his favorite haunts Tuesday, the Council on Foreign Relations, where he spoke candidly about Russian interference in the 2016 elections, blaming Mitch McConnell for…

Jake Tapper: “The Patriots Are Cheaters”

By Alby January 23, 20186 Comments

CNN's Jake Tapper was interviewed on-air about his beloved Philadelphia Eagles, and he pulled no punches. “The Patriots cheat. This is just a fact as established by investigations. They’re a…

Open Thread Jan. 23: How to Fold a Rat

By Alby January 23, 20186 Comments

So did Senate Democrats execute a simple, classic, cardboard-suitcase fold, or did Chuck Schumer craft some eleventy-dimensional origami? Lots of people are lamenting the seeming spinelessness, cursing the Gang of…

Open Thread Jan. 22: Eagles and Catfights

By Alby January 22, 20183 Comments

As Philadelphia football fans continue chanting the longest word they've learned how to spell, life continues elsewhere, except in much of the federal government. The Jets and the Sharks in…

Open Thread Jan. 20: Why Delaware Democrats Are Vulnerable

By Alby January 20, 20187 Comments

Want to know why Republicans in Delaware will have a chance in November, blue wave notwithstanding? Employment numbers. While growth has slowly but steadily improved nationally over the past two…

Lead Us, Bots, Into Temptation

By Alby January 20, 20181 Comment

As Puck noted on another thread, Twitter yesterday released the news that at least 50,000 Russian bots were tweeting about the U.S. election. To which I reply, so what? If…

Open Thread Jan. 19: Dollars or Dreamers

By Alby January 19, 201815 Comments

Whatever else the government shutdown is about, it isn't about saving money. Think tanks both liberal and conservative (well, libertarian, anyway) have run the numbers, and both found that expelling…