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Home For The Summer?
Delawarean Bill Sammons of A Little BS blog would like his son home for the summer to Host Our Coast. What the hell, let’s vote him home for the summer. Vote here. h/t from a tweet from Elbert
Carney Campaign Asking for $53 from You
I love teh social media. Yesterday I received an email on my Facebook from the Fan of John Carney for Congress page. The gist of the email (which is below the fold) was to ask John Carney supporters to donate $53 dollars to his campaign for congress at John Carney for Congress. Why $53? Because […]
Quote of the Day
Vietnam teaches several lessons, the first of which is that the United States can have normal relations with countries whose political systems and ideologies it rejects. That is as true of Cuba and Iran today as it was of Vietnam or China. — Roger Cohen
Bell to Bell
I’ve been trying to write a post about the Delaware Education Association‘s Bell to Bell Week and I’ve been stimied. Teachers throughout Delaware (except Delmar — thanks News Journal) are only working from the start of classes to the end of classes — bell to bell — to protest Gov. Markell’s proposed pay cut for […]
Quote of the Day
Governments around the world are getting more savvy about excluding journalists from war zones. The US Government partly blamed its failure in Vietnam on the freedom of the press rather than on its military strategy. That led to me being banned from reporting the Falklands war. I had dinner recently with some senior military men […]
They Are The GOP
Below is a photo from a workshop at the Delaware GOP Convention yesterday on how to rebuild the GOP. Do you notice any similarities between this photo and the Republican National Convention this past summer? Click on the image below to see a larger version of it.
Quote of the Day
The president who did most for Israel was Jimmy Carter — the same Carter who has sometimes been described as an Israel-hater. — Martin Van Creveld
Quote of the Day
Now we are seeing the credit card banks — one of Delaware’s most important industries — pleading poor mouth and dire financial straits if Congress put a cap on the top interest rates they charge customers. And in typical Delaware Way special interest response, Sens. Tom Carper and Ted Kaufman voted against the idea. [snip] […]
Quote of the Day
Like most Americans, we have not yet seen the images [new torture photos] and don’t know what they’ll portray. But until they’re made public, they seem likely only to inflame the imaginations of America’s friends and enemies. The worst will be assumed. And let’s not forget Obama’s promise, on his second day in office, to […]
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