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Warning: Do not watch this video about companies like DuPont avoid hiring Americans in favor of H1B visa holders. Seriously. You will regret it unless you want your blood to…

If you are familiar with the Delaware State News’ “sound off” feature you know what a crazy-ass right-wing freak show they have going on. I thought I’d add my voice…

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Illegal?  Maybe.  Wrong? Certainly.  By steering state business to his company (yes - I said his company) and by obtaining direct financial benefit from a fund which he established  -…

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Castle SAYS he supports the troops, [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ScjjdJeQdQ] and yet we've never seen those noble words backed up in ANY WAY. MEANWHILE...The Washington Post Reports... LINK Army Spec. Jeans Cruz helped…

Another "dog bites man story." This time it is Pete DuPont who does not feel constrained by a simple little thing called the truth. LINKBrendan Nyhan calls him out. Pete…

I give you modern Republican Party... Given the recent rhetoric in Republican circles about immigration policy, I found this story spectacularly amusing. The California Republican Party has decided no American…

The News Journal Reports... Legislation introduced by Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., would prohibit credit card companies from raising interest rates on cardholders' unpaid balances and from…

Jack ain't messing around.  This is the kind of issue this that mixes Jack's social progressiveness with his no nonsense approach to economic development. “Passage of anti-discrimination legislation based on…

I jumped on a story after just reading the lead.  When FSP pointed that out I took it right down.  Unlike George Bush or Michael Castle I can admit when…