Who’s the Real Victim? Biden, Says RWNJ
Conservative concern troll John Podhoretz of the New York Daily News has weighed in on the Donna Brazile flap -- he's shocked, shocked that the party's presumptive nominee took control…
Open Thread for Friday, November 3, 2017
The owner of the Glasgow Court trailer park wants to oust residents to make way for a housing development, but the plan might have hit a roadblock. A FOIA request…
No Baby Will Ever Be Named Harvey Again
After this year, the name Harvey will forever be linked with disaster. First Hurricane Harvey drowned Houston, then Harvey Weinstein's fall triggered an earthquake in Hollywood. The first one is…
Home Is Where You Make It
Rumors have swirled about state Rep. Melanie George Smith's residence for more than a year now, ever since she bought a new home west of Newark and moved her family…
Open Thread for Thursday, November 2, 2017
Oh, that pesky tax reform plan, always getting yelled at. Now some Republicans are upset because -- brace yourself -- they're worried it will be portrayed as helping the rich…
Open Thread for Wednesday, November 1, 2017
Remember that GOP tax plan that was going to be released today? Whoops. They're still fighting over the details, so now it will be unveiled tomorrow. Definitely tomorrow. James Fallows…
Criminals, Communists, Crackheads and Weirdos: Which Are You?
According to Corey Stewart, who narrowly lost the Republican gubernatorial primary to Ed Gillespie and is now running for US Senate, all Democrats fall into one of the four categories…
Won’t Someone Think of the Children?
Wilmington City Council has been a backwater of favoritism and incompetence for so long that most of us ignore it, so it was easy to think it would molder out…
The Lost Cause Is a Lost Cause
The Civil War is back in the news, and it reminds us of what TrumpMerica's counter-reformation is all about: Rewriting history. Yes, I know that's a loaded phrase, because it's…
Open Thread for Tuesday, October 31, 2017
How bad are things for Donald Trump? So bad that this morning he tried to use the GOP tax plan as a distraction from his bigger problems. As is common…
Open Thread for Monday, October 30, 2017
For the first time in 51 weeks, today seems a little better than yesterday. Anybody who claims to know how all this will end is just guessing. We can't know…
Open Thread for Sunday, October 29, 2017
Everybody waiting for Mueller's Monday reveal, but writing about it is difficult because nobody knows anything more than the bare bones. I'm skipping all the prediction stories -- Mueller will…
Open Thread for Saturday, October 28, 2017
The big news of the day is, of course, the first indictment from Robert Mueller's election probe. Today's chatter revolves around who will get the knock on the door just…