Delaware
Moderates Need Not Apply
The GOP purity purge is accelerating, despite their loss of NY-23. It’s no wonder the teabaggers feel empowered – they were being interviewed all over the media yesterday. They see the loss of NY-23 as a big win for their movement – the movement to make a smaller, purer GOP. The purgers scored another big […]
Oh. Shut. Up. Sussex County Whiners, I’m Calling You Out
Quel dommage, petites pauvres Sussex County condo residents. From today’s News-Journal, a bunch of self-entitled crybabies from Sea Pines Condominiums, and other overdeveloped areas of coastal Sussex, are whining that their aesthetic quality of life will simply be destroyed if/when a 100-foot communications tower is built near their property. Let’s illustrate just how dire their […]
Comment Rescue: Delaware Banking Secrecy
Allan Loudell, on yesterday’s report about Delaware’s ranking as the most secretive banking system in the world: Comment by Allan Loudell on 2 November 2009 at 9:25 am: I forward John Manifold’s comments to John Christensen, director of the Tax Justice Network in London, and one of the authors of these rankings. I was curious […]
Between Love and Madness Lies the New Castle County Council
Guidelines are now being created by the New Castle Country government that in time would allow businesses to advertise on county parkland reports The Community News. What types of ads, where the ads would go and what businesses the ads would be from are all part of the rules that will be drawn up between […]
Juvenile Victims Finally Get Delayed Justice
No, not the victims of institutional pedophilia that Monsignor Greg Lavelle and the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington have conspired to individually screw for at least a second time. I’m talking about the 5,000 victims previously chronicled here. 6500 convictions thrown out due to kickbacks that two of the greediest ‘public servants’ in history got in […]
Drinking Liberally: Death Panel Edition
This ThursdayTonight, Drinking Liberally will be hosting an event at Homegrown Cafe in Newark. In honor of Halloween and the Summer of Spittle, we will be sponsoring a costume contest that will be judged by our own Death Panel. Homegrown Cafe 126 East Main Street, Newark, DE 19711 October 29th at 7PM Come out and […]
Delaware Budget Hearing Dates Announced
State officials have announced November hearing dates for the FY 2011 budget cycle reports The Community News.
Obama Makes Surprise Trip To Dover To Honor Fallen Troops
Last night President Obama made a surprise trip to Dover AFB to observe the ceremony honoring the Americans killed in Afghanistan on Monday. President Obama made an unscheduled, overnight trip to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware overnight to observe up close a “solemn dignified transfer movement,” the event which marks the return to the […]
MADD Delaware Tapped Financially
Delaware MADD looks like it will be closing its doors unless it receives an influx of money by Oct. 31st according to the Community News. MADD has done a lot of good since its founding in 1980, however the story of a local MADD chapter making a very bad decision can seemingly doom an organization.
Official Fisker Announcement Today
As many of you know Vice President Joe Biden and Gov. Jack Markell will be at the Boxwood plant this morning to announce the Fisker deal. As the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote, “Delaware appears to be an early winner in the nation’s green-car movement . . .” According to Fisker, they will probably bring some 1,500 […]
How the Army Corps of Engineers Stays in Business
It comes up with loony projects, has them embraced by pork-loving congress critters, develops phony economic benefits analysis, and then plays hardball, using people like Pennsylvania’s amoral governor as its cheerleaders. Michael Grunwald wrote a brilliant 5-piece series for the Washington Post back in 2000 chronicling how, in one Corps survey, the Chessie ran east […]
To Run or Not To Run, That Is The Question
As Beau Biden, the State Attorney General, gets back to work after serving his country in Iraq, the Delaware Democratic Party and the National Democratic Party await Biden’s decision on whether he will throw his hat into the race for his father’s old Senate seat. The Washington Post is the latest news outlet to chime […]
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