Delaware
Income Inequality
You know income inequality is getting to be a big topic when even Joe Scarborough of Morning Joe talks about it fervently this morning. Of course, he falls back on the tried and true conservative position that we can’t raise taxes ever on anything, and the expert guest agreed.
Um, why can’t we? New data from the IRS shows that the wealthiest Americans have seen their share of taxes decline rather significantly under Obama.
Festivus Open Thread [12.23.13]
![Festivus Open Thread [12.23.13]](http://delawareliberal.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Markell-240x180.png "Festivus Open Thread [12.23.13]")
Governor Jack Markell is Kavip’s Delawarean of the Year. He did some good things, like this:
He proposed and pushed through requiring background checks for all gun sales.
He proposed and was able to get mandated reporting of lost or stolen firearms.
He signed the Gay Marriage Bill.
He signed transgender equality into law.
But he also did some inexplicable things, for a Democrat:
He tried to give away the Port of Wilmington to an oil company.
He killed Minimum Wage in 2013.
He rammed through SB51 which permanently weakens teacher education programs.
He created an Illegal Star Chamber to draw up HB 165 charter school beneficial legislation, in secret without public input.
He rammed through HG 165 which gives private for profit charter schools access to public school capital financing.
He tried to lower taxes for the top 1%. And not for anyone else.
![Sunday Daily Delawhere [12.22.13]](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7307/11392153676_f59666a78e_z.jpg "Sunday Daily Delawhere [12.22.13]")
![Saturday Daily Delawhere [12.21.13]](http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5550/11392177724_464e4a8d81_z.jpg "Saturday Daily Delawhere [12.21.13]")
![Friday Daily Delawhere [12.20.13]](http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3668/11392153866_079e0af8c9_z.jpg "Friday Daily Delawhere [12.20.13]")
Delaware Politics’ Tennessee Walker Wins The Misogynist Award
Tennessee Walker is touted as one of the “reasonable” voices of DelawarePolitics.net and the GOP, but he’s not reasonable. He’s exactly like Rush and co. when it comes to women. Seems like if you scratch the surface of a proclaimed “reasonable” Republican and you’ll find this garbage.
![Thursday Daily Delawhere [12.19.13]](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7184/6972527877_a36f6004b8_z.jpg "Thursday Daily Delawhere [12.19.13]")
2013: The Good, The Bad, the Ridiculous
I am El Somnambulo, and I’m a listaholic. Today, one of my faves, my Delaware year-end review. I went back to January, and chronologically went through our Delaware Liberal archives. Man, our bloggers were en fuego this year. Incredible work from all corners. Cassandra on Wilmington and loads of other stuff, Pandora on education, Jason330 on the suckitude that is our congressional delegation, our beloved leader DelDem liveblogging from the Hall and covering national politics like no other, great Rob Tornoe cartoons. And, next year, ProgressivePopulist will have loads of great entries. Anyway, y’all could do a lot worse than to go back to January and enjoy the journey like I did. You can just click on ‘archives’ at the bottom of the page, and enjoy the journey.
Would it surprise you to learn that I considered only 12 possible entries for the Good? Didn’t think so. I had lots more to choose from in the other two categories, but I’m kind-of a negative person. So, here we go, have at it!
Don’t Miss Today’s Al Show!
At 10 am, the annual The Good, The Bad, The Ridiculous list will be unveiled unveiled right here on Delaware Liberal. Follow along on the DL blog as Al Mascitti and I count down the list on today’s Al Show. WDEL 1150-AM from 10 -12 noon. You can stream live at wdel.com.
![Wednesday Daily Delawhere [12.18.13]](http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3809/11383791585_9285f63565_z.jpg "Wednesday Daily Delawhere [12.18.13]")
In Which Sheriff Christopher Pretends He’s Real Law Enforcement Again
The ever hapless but ever blustering Sheriff Christopher has signed on to an effort to not enforce President Obama’s gun control laws — whatever they might be. If you look at this list of associations and Sheriff’s who have signed on to this idiocy, you can definitely tell that the completely non-law enforcement Christopher is hoping that no one will notice that he is not wearing the grownup’s long pants at this table. He can’t enforce anything, so here he is pretending he really does belong at the grownup table. But the other thing that is funny about this bit of wingnuttery is that there are new gun control laws right in his own backyard that he can’t be bothered to claim to not be enforcing. Maybe he won’t enforce these laws in where ever it is that he is supposed to be moving to after being smacked down by the state courts.
![Tuesday Daily Delawhere [12.17.13]](http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3767/11260786546_59618c1502_z.jpg "Tuesday Daily Delawhere [12.17.13]")
Cookie Hooky Day!
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m really far behind this holiday season! Today I took my daughter out of school for a cookie hooky day. Chocolate chips, peanut butter, sugar cookies and chocolate-orange- coffee truffles are on the agenda. Guess I’ll start shopping tomorrow! If you’re done all this stuff… that makes me […]
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