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Saturday Daily Delawhere [3.29.14]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on March 29, 2014 • 3 Comments

Friday Daily Delawhere [3.28.14]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on March 28, 2014 • 2 Comments

Former NM Governor Bill Richardson was in Leg Hall today…

Filed in National by Delaware Dem on March 27, 2014 • 9 Comments

… to speak in support of Senate Bill 19, the bill to repeal the death penalty, which passed the Senate last year 11-10, but which remains in committee in the House. Below are his remarks from a press conference today:

Thursday Open Thread [3.27.14]

Filed in National by Delaware Dem on March 27, 2014 • 5 Comments

Look at the graphic on the left there. Those are results from the latest Kaiser Family Foundation poll on Obamacare. 59% who want to either keep the law as is or keep it and improve it. Only 29% want it repealed. With such a number, and their entire midterm campaign based on repeal of Obamacare, the GOP has to hope that only those 29% turn out to vote. Which, given the typical midterm demographics, is not that bad of a bet.

Thursday Daily Delawhere [3.27.14]

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Wednesday Open Thread [3.26.14] – The DL Common Core Edition

Filed in National, Open Thread by Delaware Dem on March 26, 2014 • 72 Comments

I have mostly been ignoring the debate over Common Core education standards, pretty much because the opponents and proponents are all speaking in a language that is foreign to me. I don’t have kids so I have not been confronted by these issues. So I have left education blogging to DL’s expert, Pandora, and to Delaware’s best education bloggers, Kavips and Kilroy, as well as Mike Matthews anbd John Young and others focusing on specific school districts like Christina and Red Clay. It is fair to say that I myself have ignored the debate because it did not concern me. That thinking is wrong but it is what has happened.

And because of that, DL has gotten a reputation of being pro-Common Core or pro-Markell in this education debate, because we were less outspoken on the issue than Kavips or Kilroy or Nancy Willing. I don’t that is a fair characterization. A more fair one is that we have been ignorant.

So, I have a few questions….

Wednesday Daily Delawhere [3.26.14]

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Tuesday Open Thread [3.25.14]

Filed in National by Delaware Dem on March 25, 2014 • 4 Comments

“At times we are able to humiliate our worst enemy. Inevitably, his weak moments come and we are able to thrust in his side the spear of defeat. But this we must not do. Every word and deed must contribute to an understanding with the enemy and release those vast reservoirs of goodwill which have been blocked by impenetrable walls of hate,” – Martin Luther King, Jr., Dexter Avenue Baptist Church; Montgomery, Alabama, Christmas Sermon, 1957.

This is the single hardest thing to do in life, whether in politics or no. I admit that I often succumb to schadenfreude, known as the joy in the suffering of one’s enemies, especially political enemies. And yet, it is the Christian thing to do. That is why being a true Christian is supposed to be difficult. And that is why it is both wonderful and ironic to see a lesson in Christian forgiveness being given to the Westboro Baptist Church, as shown in the above picture.

Another example is the Catholic bigot Bill Donahue’s failed attempts to set up one of his signature “Outrage” moments where his Catholic beliefs were being discriminated against.

Yeah, that’s not racist at all.

Filed in National by Delaware Dem on March 25, 2014 • 7 Comments

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is criticizing President Obama on Afghanistan, you know, that country and the war that Rumsfeld himself neglected so that he could satisfy the neocon wet dream of invading Iraq, saying a “trained ape” could have done a better job in diplomatic relations with the country.

I have a couple of three things to say about that.

Tuesday Daily Delawhere [3.25.14]

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Monday Open Thread [3.24.14]

Filed in National, Open Thread by Delaware Dem on March 24, 2014 • 3 Comments

If Rand Paul really really wanted to be President, he could pretty much guarantee his election right now by sticking to a Libertarian foreign policy of non-interference and continue railing against the NSA. If he did that, he would probably defeat Hillary Clinton.

But he has already tarnished his Libertarian credentials in this Ukrainian crisis. Being a true libertarian in the modern GOP takes courage when it comes to foreign policy. The bully Neocons will call you unAmerican, a Hitler lover, and a coward. So it takes real courage to stand up to that. His father had that courage. Rand Paul does not.