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Drinking with Liberals

Filed in Delaware by on July 28, 2011 0 Comments

Just a reminder that we will be drinking liberally at the Biergarten at the Purple Parrot, 134 Rehoboth Avenue, tonight starting at 7:00 PM. Bring your national debt so we can raise the roof.

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Does This Wifebeater Make Me Look Fat?

Filed in Delaware by on July 22, 2011 52 Comments

Yesterday we covered the despicable email Rep. Allen West (Tejadi – FL) sent to Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Well, our resident teabagging radio talking head, Bill Colley (aka Curley, aka The Fat Man) decided to go one step further. During yesterday afternoon’s show, he said regarding the response to West’s email “If he went and […]

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Markell Has Signed SB 146. Quietly. Very Quietly.

Filed in Delaware by on July 21, 2011 14 Comments

Virtually every day, we get at least one, and sometimes more, press releases from the Governor’s office, touting the signing of one piece of ‘landmark’ legislation after another. Jack Markell is not the first governor to do this, it’s a time-honored tradition of giving oneself ‘the rub’ (wrestling term for putting someone over) and giving […]

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Chad Livengood Falls Victim To Dread Disease

Filed in Delaware by on July 20, 2011 6 Comments

Normally excellent reporter Chad Livengood falls victim to the dread disease of fairnbalanced-itis. Send him healing thoughts.

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Harry Shearer and The Big Uneasy Tonight

Filed in Delaware by on July 20, 2011 4 Comments

A reminder that this movie is being screened complete with a Q&A by Harry Shearer tonite at Theater N in Wilmington. There are less than 50 tickets left for this (as of Tuesday afternoon), so if you are planning to go, get your tickets on line and in advance here.

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Delaware GOP Presidential Straw Poll

Filed in Delaware by on July 20, 2011 5 Comments

The Delaware GOP is having a straw poll for GOP presidential primary during the state fair. It’s open!

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NJ Truthiness Watch — Wagging Their Finger at American Political Debate

Filed in Delaware by on July 18, 2011 4 Comments

The Sunday NJ brings us an editorial with this amusing observation:

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OK, You Can Panic

Filed in Delaware by on July 18, 2011 6 Comments

As you may know, on Friday about 11 hours of comments (and posts) were disappeared from the blog.  This appears to have been a glitch on the redundant database servers that store most of the data for the site.  In technical terms, the servers stopped synchronizing data in the late morning and in the late […]

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Christine O’Donnell Will Smite Her Enemies

Filed in Delaware by on July 18, 2011 8 Comments

Christine O’Donnell is back and she’s pissed.

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Delaware Has A New State Climatologist

Filed in Delaware by on July 15, 2011 10 Comments

Prominent climate change skeptic David Legates has been asked to step do

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Primary for Insurance Commissioner

Filed in Delaware by on July 5, 2011 83 Comments

Mitch Crane, former Acting Director of Consumer Services and Investigations under Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart, filed paperwork today that will enable him to raise money for the Democratic nomination for Insurance Commissioner in next year’s election. A formal campaign announcement will be made in January. Crane, who lives in Lewes, is a lawyer and […]

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Late Night Video — Senators Tell LGBT Youth That It Gets Better

Filed in Delaware, National by on June 29, 2011 11 Comments

This is excellent — several U.S. Senators film another bit of support to LGBT youth, sending the message that it does get better. MANY props to Senator Chris Coons who is a big participant here.

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Another Edition of IOKIYAR — Christine O’Donnell Saved by the GOP

Filed in Delaware, National by on June 29, 2011 14 Comments

So the rest of the story of how the FEC charges against O’Donnell got dropped finally comes out. And she is saved from having to account for her mismanagement of campaign funds by the Republican commissioners on the FEC.

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