The NFL on Its Opposition to DE Sports Betting
The Sporting Blog (where you'll have to sit through the usual snarkiness about Delaware) has been following the sports betting drama here and found themselves asking the same questions we do:
NCCo Government Thinking of Advertising on Their Website
The Community News reports that NCCo is thinking seriously of allowing advertisers for the government's website to help raise money:
Tom Carper Emerges to Speak
The News Journal reports that Senator Tom Carper will be available for a live video chat about Health Insurance reform on the delawareonline.com site TODAY at 5pm. No idea how…
Chart of the Day
An excellent depiction of the current state of the Too Big to Fail showing their bonus payouts vs TARP holdings and current earnings or losses:
The Deep Roots of the Right Wing Crazy Tree
Rick Pearlstein wrote an amazing op-ed today, which shows how the wingnut crazy has been a persistent part of the political landscape throughout much of the 20th century. (I love the story about how the right thought of Truman and Roosevelt years as "20 years of treason". Especially since the current expectation by their descendants is that history will rehabilitate BushCo in the way it rehabilitated Truman.) Pearlstein makes this point:
How American Health Care Looks from Europe
This bit of embarrassment is from the Saturday Independent -- and the accompanying article is worth a read too:
Dick Armey Out of His Cushy Lobbying Job!
This is an interesting Friday afternoon news item: Dick Armey -- lately infamous for his work promoting Freedomworks, the corporate-backed group astroturfing Town Halls this summer -- has quit his lobbyist job at DLA Piper,claiming to want to work full-time on the Freedomworks thing.
Late Night Video — Ultra Deep Field Images
Simply incredible -- this is a 3D look at imaging from the new Hubble camera pointed out at a part of the universe thought to be empty
The Fraudulence of Wingnuts — Glenn Beck Edition
Outsourced to Jon Stewart who is very funny and very scathing here:
Damon Weaver Interviews President Obama
This is an impressive interview -- Damon Weaver is a 6th grader from a school in Florida whose claim to fame before now was his delightful interview with then Senator Biden -- finally gets to interview the President. I thought many of his questions were smarter and more interesting than many I've heard at a WH Press Conference.
New Ad Targeting Tom Carper
Health Care for Americans Now is airing this ad in six states, targeted at Rep. Jason Altmire (D-Pa.), Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.), Rep. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (D-S.D.), a number of upstate New York members and Sens. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) and Tom Carper (D-Del.).
Netroots Nation
So Netroots Nation starts today in Pittsburgh (lucky UI!), and apparently the wingnuts have theirs going on at the same time in the same city:
This Is How It Gets Done
Brendan Nyhan wrote recently about the proven playbook of getting misinformation (lies, really) about Obama's birth certificate and about some details of the health insurance reform actually get into the media rotation: