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Public Policy’s Deep Freeze

Filed in National by on August 29, 2011 7 Comments
Public Policy’s Deep Freeze

Gridlock, political polarization, call it whatever you want, but in order to move forward we need to first identify the causes of political polarization.

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Earthquake!

Filed in National by on August 23, 2011 23 Comments

Earthquake hits outside D.C., and measures 5.8 on the Richter Scale. It was felt up and down the East Coast, including here in Delaware.

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Weiner Roast

Filed in National by on June 6, 2011 26 Comments
Weiner Roast

Congressman Anthony Weiner is about to have a press conference, where he will probably fall on his sword (so to speak) with new allegations out in the webs. Watch live.

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Junk Men

Filed in National by on June 3, 2011 4 Comments
Junk Men

Does anything come between a politician and his Calvins? Apparently, not.

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Sarah Palin™ and the Merry Teapartiers

Filed in National by on June 2, 2011 4 Comments
Sarah Palin™ and the Merry Teapartiers

Sarah Palin™ continues her long, strange fleecing of America.

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American Whites: From God Complex to Aggrieved

Filed in National by on May 31, 2011 16 Comments
American Whites: From God Complex to Aggrieved

What happens when you control most of the wealth in a country? Naturally, you cry “Racism!”

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Cellophane – It Keeps Kids Fresh

Filed in National by on March 27, 2011 5 Comments
Cellophane – It Keeps Kids Fresh

Du Pont thinking outside the box.

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Texas Tidbits

Filed in National by on February 17, 2011 9 Comments
Texas Tidbits

Gail Collins has a wonderful piece in today’s New York Times that rightly slams Texas and its governor, Rick Perry, about education and abstinence.

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The Party of Lincoln No More

Filed in National by on February 13, 2011 5 Comments
The Party of Lincoln No More

With a party filled with Southerners, Tea Partiers and States Rights Advocates, can the Republican Party consider itself the Party of Lincoln?

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Why Mubarak Resigned

Filed in International by on February 12, 2011 2 Comments
Why Mubarak Resigned

Gawker has found the photo which made Mubarak resign.

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Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

Filed in International by on February 11, 2011 4 Comments
Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

Nicholas Kristof blogs this afternoon: But the game isn’t over, and now a word of caution. I worry that senior generals may want to keep (with some changes) a Mubarak-style government without Mubarak. In essence the regime may have decided that Mubarak had become a liability and thrown him overboard — without any intention of […]

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Failure is the DE GOP’s Only Option?

Filed in Delaware, National by on January 13, 2011 34 Comments

We’ve seen it in the past on the national level and now we are seeing it on the state level: Republicans don’t want to govern.

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Is It a New Day?

Filed in National by on January 13, 2011 6 Comments
Is It a New Day?

There was a tragedy in America the other day, but sadly the tragedy lives on in the small-mindedness of many on both the left and the right. We’ve seen it on this blog in spades. We’ve seen it prior to the shootings in Arizona and we will see it afterwards

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