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Steve Smyk really is the worst kind of NRA asslick.

In recent days, we've seen a disturbing increase in the volume of attacks on the students who spoke at the March For Our Lives rally in Washington, D.C. The hate-the-victim narrative goes something like this: These kids are tools of the left-wing media and others with a left-wing agenda. They are professional actors enjoying their 15 minutes of fame. My favorite, straight from the National Review, is that David Hogg, a survivor of the Parkland shooting, is a "useful idiot." These talking points drafted by the NRA and its friends are ill-informed, cynical and heartless. And guess who's repeating them? State Rep. Steve Smyk.

People like what they like. So I have no problem with muskrat trapping, or muskrat eating. I ate one myself once to see if it would turn me into a…

This long form journalism from theoutline.com, on Wilmgton's cycle of poverty, neglect and gun violence is worth your careful consideration.

On the night of December 16, 2017, Allen “Duffy” Samuels and his family were celebrating his daughter’s sweet sixteen at a hotel in Wilmington, Delaware, when his sister, Arica Samuels, received a call. “She screamed and ran out to the lobby,” he said. “The next thing we knew, we were at the hospital.” Her son, Keanan, a freshman at Benedict College in South Carolina, was home for Christmas break. That night he had gone to a vigil for a friend, 19-year-old Barry White, who had been shot and killed that September on Wilmington’s north side. After Keanan left the vigil, a still-unidentified assailant opened fire sometime around 7:45 p.m. and hit Samuels in the neck and face area, according to the police. He died at the hospital later that night. He was 20 years old, and the 32nd and final gun-homicide victim of the year in the city of just over 70,000.

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Whether it is the genius of Party Chairman Erik Raser-Schramm, or just the fact that America is champing at the goddam bit to lay a glove on the ReTrumpicans, Democrats…

It is Easter 2018, and while it isn't against the law to be poor in Delaware, it might as well be. A system of fines and penalties enacted against the poor to pay for a government that only serves the rich, have left poor (and even some average) Delawareans one speeding ticket away from bankruptcy. How did that happen?

This Oklahoma teacher's strike story continues to warm my heart. It turns out, the teachers union was gutted by state's anti-union GOP - so the strike is the ad hoc…

Delaware lawmakers with cold feet about gun control should look to the north, where Vermont -- a far more rural state with gun attitudes typical of such places -- passed…

I predicted that Lopez would reveal himself to be a chicken. Ernie -- I am so disappointed to learn that you are opposing both HB 330 and SB 163! That…