Unstable Isotope
Opinionated chemist, troublemaker, blogger on national and Delaware politics.
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Matt Yglesias Has A Question
Matt Yglesias at Think Progress turns the question on the public option around – are the opponents of health care reform willing to kill the bill if it contains the public option? So far the coverage has been whether progressives would kill the bill if it didn’t contain the public option. It’s an impotant distinction: […]
Delaware Democratic Party Resolution On Health Care Reform
Yesterday, the Huffington Post picked up a story that the Delaware Democratic party passed a health care reform resolution. One purpose of the resolution was to put pressure on Tom Carper to support the public option for health care. Below is the text of the resolution. The full press release can be found here. Delaware […]
Sunday Open Thread
You guys sure are chatty this weekend. Here’s a fresh thread for you. Is the Delaware Democratic party’s website fubar-ed for you as well? An excellent diary on anti-vaccine hysteria from Daily Kos. Some on-line activist started a website called Republicans For Rape after 30 Republican senators (all men) voted against the Franken amendment. The […]
Bono Writes A Love Letter To America
International philanthropist Bono wrote an op-ed for today’s New York Times on why Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize and what it means to the rest of the world: Well, I happen to be European, and I can project with the best of them. So here’s why I think the virtual Obama is the real […]
Friday Open Thread
Anyone got exciting plans for the weekend? I have to train for a 5K run on Halloween. Any suggestion for a costume you can run in? To start your weekend out right, watch Rachel Maddow tear Tim Phillips from Americans for Prosperity a new one (the real fireworks are in Part 2 but watch the […]
Rush Limbaugh Is A Victim!
Rush Limbaugh knows why he was denied a chance to own the St. Louis Rams – it’s all Obama’s fault: “So Obama’s America is quite possibly going to include the National Football League, and pressure from Obama, the Congressional Black Caucus and other places might be brought to bear on the owners,” Limbaugh complained. And […]
I Take Mine Everywhere
Ummm….what? Meghan McCain, daughter of failed presidential candidate John McCain, was forced to apologize for titillating conservatives. Republican firebrand Meghan McCain’s skimpy pajamas have her conservative followers all atwitter, forcing the daughter of failed 2008 presidential candidate Sen. John McCain to apologize for posting a racy photo of her décolletage. […] “I do want to […]
Is It Over For Arlen?
Rasmussen has a new poll on the Pennsylvania senate race and it’s bad, bad news for Arlen Specter: The new Rasmussen poll of Pennsylvania finds Sen. Arlen Specter just barely ahead of his Democratic primary challenger, Rep. Joe Sestak. The numbers: Specter 46%, Sestak 42%, with a ±3% margin of error. In early August, Specter […]
Thursday Open Thread
Is it Thursday already? The week is flying by! This is just cool: Then it will be time to test one of the most bizarre and revolutionary theories in science. I’m not talking about extra dimensions of space-time, dark matter or even black holes that eat the Earth. No, I’m talking about the notion that […]
The Republican Guide To The Stock Market
Steve Benen brings us the rules for watching the stock market, according to Republicans: Just so we’re clear, here’s a helpful guide to the rules of Wall Street watching, as they relate to partisan politics: When the markets went down on Bush’s watch before the 2008 elections, this was Bill Clinton’s fault. When the markets […]
George Will Writes About Castle, Adds Nothing
Dishonest pundit George Will spews conventional wisdom about Mike Castle and the Delaware U.S. Senate race in his latest column. Demure Delaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution, but since then has not made many waves. It might, however, be part of a political wave a year from now, thanks to a direct […]
Late Night Video – The California Marriage Protection Act
The California Marriage Protection Act – ban divorce!
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