Delaware

Thursday Daily Delawhere [4.11.13]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on April 11, 2013 • 12 Comments

John Sigler: Lawbreaker? Probably…Creep? Certainly

Filed in Delaware, National by El Somnambulo on April 10, 2013 • 93 Comments

What if we told you that Delaware’s (and one of the nation’s) most prominent advocates for ‘law abiding citizens’ may well be both a lawbreaker and an inhumane killer? And what if I told you that this upstanding citizen is the head of the Delaware Republican Party?

Ladies and gentlemen, Delaware’s Mr. NRA #1, John Sigler….

Wednesday Daily Delawhere [4.10.13]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on April 10, 2013 • 1 Comment

Tuesday Daily Delawhere [4.9.13]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on April 9, 2013 • 0 Comments

QOTD — A Modest Proposal on Legislator Pay

Filed in Delaware by cassandra_m on April 8, 2013 • 11 Comments

I saw this proposal on Facebook the other night and — frankly — this makes sense to me. If we are focused like a laser beam on compensating teachers for effectiveness (and for effectiveness over factors they can’t always control), why not compensate legislators the same way? What do you think?

Monday Daily Delawhere [4.8.13]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on April 8, 2013 • 0 Comments

Hillary Makes a Speech On the Unfinished Business of the 21st Century

Filed in Delaware by cassandra_m on April 7, 2013 • 2 Comments

It’s Hillary Clinton Day here at DL! Last Friday, Hillary Clinton took the stage at the Women in the World Summit in New York to make the case for women’s rights. Global women’s rights. (Am I the only one who really would have liked to have gone to this event?) Calling women’s rights the unfinished business of the century, she reminds us of how much women contribute to their places and how much even first world places like the US still have to go to achieve real equality.

The Daily Beast was apparently a sponsor of this event, and there is plenty of coverage there. This speech (and another upcoming this Tuesday, I believe) are why there is such a big slug of Hillary news and speculation over the last few days. She didn’t really touch on her future plans, except to say,“I look forward to being your partner in all the days and years ahead.” You can see the entire speech (approx 33 minutes, including Tina Brown intro) below.

Sunday Daily Delawhere [4.7.13]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on April 7, 2013 • 1 Comment

St. James Episcopal Church, on St. James Church Road near Stanton. The church was built in 1823.

The PDD-DL Vote Tracker for April 6, 2013

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on April 6, 2013 • 1 Comment

The General Assembly is in recess until April 16. But since our last Vote Tracker update on March 22, there has been some action on our bills of interest. Namely, the Hazel Plant Felon Vote Restoration Act has made it out of the Senate Executive Committee and will likely be voted on by the Senate after the recess. The three Revenue bills (HB 50, 51, and 52) that made permanent the tax raises from 2009 passed along party lines in the House and Senate and were signed by Governor Markell on March 28. SB 19, the Death Penalty Repeal, passed the Senate on a bipartisan vote of 11-10. Check out who voted yes and no on the chart below, it is quite surprising.

On April 3, HB 58, the Large Magazine Ban component of the Gun Control package, was tabled in the House Administration Committee for further review. Meanwhile, Senator Marshall didn’t do his homework and had a first draft of SB 37 filed without proofing it. It seems it had a provision in there that could be read to establish a gun registration by requiring owners of assault weapons purchased before the effective date of the legislation to provide proof of ownership to the Delaware State Police within 120 days of the effective date of the act. The bill was immediately stricken before the NRA outrage machine could be brought to bear. Here is the thing about banning assault weapons. When you ban them, you ban them. You don’t let people keep them through a grandfather clause. So if you want to ban these assault weapons because no one should own them, then no one should own them. Make it a crime to possess them.

If you do that, you don’t get in trouble with clauses that might or might not establish a gun registration.

Saturday Daily Delawhere [4.6.13]

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on April 6, 2013 • 1 Comment

Flowers at the Winterthur museum near Montchanin.

Ah, the smell of conservative civil war napalm in the morning…

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on April 5, 2013 • 82 Comments

… or evening, as the case may be. I agree with Nancy, I can’t tell what the actual policy difference is between Frank Knotts and his new Delaware Right blog and David Anderson and Don Ayotte and their Delaware Politics blog, except that the latter calls the former a RINO just because the former found his inner libertarian and decided that maybe the Republican Party in Delaware should not follow the path of insane Sheriff Jeff Christopher.

Here is the latest on the battle from Don Ayotte…..

I cleaned up the Blog Roll…

Filed in Delaware by Delaware Dem on April 5, 2013 • 1 Comment

Over on the right side of our blog, and down below the Recent Comments section, we have our Local Blogroll, divided into various categories:

The Left (for liberal / progressive blogs)
The Middle (for Delaware blogs that are either centrist / moderate or that are nonpartisan or even nonpolitical)
The Right (for conservative blogs)
Contributors (for links to the various and wonderful Delaware Liberal Contributors)
The News

I have removed old dead links to some of the news sites and blogs and updated them with the correct links. And I have also removed some old dead blogs and sites, and I also removed links to Daily Kos and the Onion, because they are not really local Delaware blogs or news sites, and that is what our blog roll is for. But, with the shocking and yet unwitting help of the reich wing king of Delaware, the one and only Hube, I have also added some long overlooked blogs and some new ones, so take a look. And if you know of a blog that we have missed, let me know.

I also wanted to give a shout out to Steve Newton and The Delaware Libertarian for reaching the 300,000 visitor milestone recently. It is indeed an accomplishment you should proud of. Congrats!

But to correct your guess at our traffic, we are at 5,224,112 views since late December 2007, when we moved over to Wordpress and started keeping track. I am sure the Jason and Dr. Nick show that was Delaware Liberal before garnered untold millions of more views, or at least that is what Jason tells me.