Our Popular Governor

One of the tidbits of information I missed from the Republican Rasmussen Poll released this week was this: Fifty-nine percent (59%) approve of Jack Markell’s performance as governor, including 12%…

UnAmerican

During the Bush Administration, supporters of President Bush (the very same critics of President Obama today) called any criticism of the President's policies to be treason and unAmerican. Obviously they…

What was McDowell doing at the NAIC?

A tipster raises a good question: What was Senator Harris McDowell doing accompanying Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart to the quarterly meeting of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners?

After Castle

Having met Tom Kovach at Delaware Liberal's Miles for Melanoma event this summer, I can say he will be a strong candidate and precisely the "Mike Castle Republican" the GOP needs (and those are Kovach's words describing himself, not mine). Anthony Wedo? He is an unknown. An investment and resturant executive who could self finance a race. I suppose if the GOP is desparate for a sacrificial lamb against Carney in the House race should Castle retire, someone who can self fund his campaign, then Wedo is the perfect candidate, all the while Kovach can run for Senate and give Beau Biden a run for his money.

A Lynching?

The FBI is investigating the hanging death of a U.S. Census worker near a Kentucky cemetery, and a law enforcement official told The Associated Press the word 'fed" was scrawled on the dead man's chest.

I Love Graphs

...if only because it makes the truth visible so even Republicans can understand it. And speaking of Republicans, they have been crying about debt recently, and how the President's stimulus…

The Priority of Outrage

Steve Newton has rightly criticized us and other liberal bloggers for not providing a strong defense of ACORN, an organization that, even by far right conservative blogger David Anderson's admission,…

Around the Horn Sunday

We lost a blog this week, as Dana Garrett retired (temporarily perhaps) as a result of a new job that will take more of his time. That is the problem…