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More Thievery From the Delaware General Assembly–At Your Expense

Filed in Delaware by on September 25, 2011 24 Comments

Lest anyone still doubt that the Delaware General Assembly is THE Poster Child for the Delaware Way, Chad Livengood’s article in today’s News-Journal should disabuse you of that notion.

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Crawling in the Gutter

Filed in Delaware by on September 22, 2011 16 Comments

Fay Voshell over at that right-wing “blog,” decided to post a video she found humorous. The video is a scene from some movie with Hitler in it, being briefed by his high command. But the translation is supposed to be President Obama’s staff telling him that a website set up to fight the smears of […]

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Breaking News: Pete duPont Still Alive, But Does He Have a Pulse?

Filed in Delaware by on September 21, 2011 12 Comments

In a symbolic embrace of ‘freedom’, the media was barred from the du Pont’s event last night, which included a mere cameo from New Jersey’s governor, who could barely squeeze this prestigious honor into his busy schedule.

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County Tries to Sell State White Elephant

Filed in Delaware by on September 14, 2011 28 Comments

Rockwood. Yet another tony estate, built in the mid-1800’s, championed by those people more concerned about family crests than family stability, purchased by New Castle County with lotsa bucks from the state, turned into a ‘mansion and a park’ during the go-go Gordon and Freebury years, and now, and now…the County can’t afford the upkeep and wants to pawn it off on the state.

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Karen Weldin Stewart’s Appeal to Nowhere…

Filed in Delaware by on September 13, 2011 66 Comments

…on behalf of, well, not the people of the State of Delaware, has been dismissed by federal regulators. The News-Journal story has a distinct Karen in Wonderland flavor to it.

To (half-)wit: Our elected insurance commissioner, apparently on her own, applied for a three-year waiver to:

“exempt Aetna and UnitedHealthcare from spending 80 percent of premiums on medical care rather than administrative expenses or profits.”

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Don Ayotte Gets Called Out By Fellow Contributor At Delaware Politics

Filed in Delaware by on September 1, 2011 56 Comments
Don Ayotte Gets Called Out By Fellow Contributor At Delaware Politics

Could this be “As The Tea Party Turns III”?

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Karen Weldin Stewart: Bag of Hammers

Filed in Delaware by on September 1, 2011 10 Comments

I was driving around the other day and heard Karen Weldin Stewart on the Jensen Show. Do yourself a favor and listen to the interview. She reminds me of the way that Rich Kotite was when he was the Eagles coach. He did great at the beginning of the game when he had scripted the plays. It all went downhill from there.

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College Search

Filed in Delaware by on September 1, 2011 12 Comments
College Search

Another American tradition continues at the Pandora household: The search for colleges

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Denn Highlights Education Successes

Filed in Delaware, National by on September 1, 2011 27 Comments
Denn Highlights Education Successes

In yesterday’s News Journal Lt. Gov. Matt Denn wrote a op-ed highlighting some of the successes we’ve had in education in Delaware.

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Christine O’Donnell Speaking in Tongues?

Filed in Delaware by on August 31, 2011 19 Comments
Christine O’Donnell Speaking in Tongues?

Tweeting in tongues might be more precise.

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Et Tu, Tea Party

Filed in Delaware by on August 30, 2011 15 Comments
Et Tu, Tea Party

It’s not her party and she’ll cry if she wants to as the Tea Party turns on Christine O’Donnell.

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Charlie Copeland, on behalf of the people of Delaware, go straight to Hell and burn.

Filed in Delaware by on August 26, 2011 49 Comments

The impervious duPont heir thinks Governor Markell is wrong to think about people’s safety and their well being, and has criticized the Governor for closing state offices in all three counties today at noon in advance of the hurricane, sending all non essential employees home to prepare for the storm and get to safety if they are under an evacuation order

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The Progressive Planner for September 2011 (Updated with an Important Event)

Filed in Delaware by on August 26, 2011 10 Comments

Put your progressive, Democratic, or uplifting/soul nourishing events in the comments section and I’ll update this throughout the month.

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