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Senator Majority Leader David McBride announced on Facebook yesterday that he has been diagnosed with colorectal cancer and is set to begin six months of chemotherapy treatment after surgery to remove a tumor last month. His entire letter is republished below, and I commend the Senator for being so open and honest about his diagnosis and treatment, as it most assuredly raises awareness of the importance of preventative medicine in getting regular screenings (which is how the Senator's cancer was detected) and the importance of all of us being open about the illnesses we face. For we all, at some point in our lives, will be diagnosed with something. And the bravery and the humility that we see in others when faced with a scary diagnosis is inspirational. We have nothing but the best wishes for the Senator as he undergoes treatment, and we hope to see him back at work after he beats cancer.

Matt Bai on the GOP v. Trump: “The interesting question is what happens from here, because the way I see it, the cold war between Trump and the Republican governing establishment, which everyone hoped throughout the summer and fall might just resolve itself, has now become a zero-sum contest. And Republicans find themselves faced with an existential threat that has no parallel for either party in my lifetime.” “Either Trump or the Republican Party as we’ve known it can come out of this election without having been politically destroyed — but almost certainly not both.”

What a pathetic coward Donald Trump is.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Thursday that the White House press secretary's comment about his "fake" hair was "disgusting." Josh Earnest railed against Trump's proposed ban on Muslims earlier this week and said that such a comment "disqualifies" the real estate mogul from the presidency. "The Trump campaign for months now has had a dustbin of history-like quality to it, from the vacuous sloganeering to the outright lies to even the fake hair—the whole carnival barker routine we've seen for some time now," Earnest said.

Donald Trump says it is disgusting to insult his looks. Interesting. How many times has Donald Trump insulted the looks of others? Thousands? He does it on a daily basis. The old adage is true: if you punch a bully in the face, they will never stop crying.

My very own State Representative, Deborah Hudson (R) (yes, both my state Rep and my state Senator are Republicans), will be introducing a bill to end Delaware's 72-year-old ban on direct home wine shipment.

Arnold Schwarzenegger posted a note on Facebook on Monday that made a very good point about climate change and renewable energy: It really doesn’t matter what you believe. The former California governor addressed people who think climate change is a conspiracy or a hoax, and asked them whether the deaths from pollution are acceptable, whether fossil fuels will last forever, and — to paraphrase greatly — what kind of world they want to live in.

Republicans say we have to bomb ISIS more, and they say it as if we aren't bombing ISIS at all, or very little. Indeed, the Fox News-watching public also has that perception. Would it surprise you to learn that we have bombed ISIS so much that we have run out of bombs?

The U.S. Air Force has fired off more than 20,000 missiles and bombs since the U.S. bombing campaign against ISIS began 15 months ago, according to the Air Force, leading to depleted munitions stockpiles and calls to ramp up funding and weapons production. As the U.S. ramps up its campaign against the Islamist terror group in Iraq and Syria, the Air Force is now "expending munitions faster than we can replenish them," Air Force chief of staff Gen. Mark Welsh said in a statement. "B-1s have dropped bombs in record numbers. F-15Es are in the fight because they are able to employ a wide range of weapons and do so with great flexibility. We need the funding in place to ensure we're prepared for the long fight," Welsh said in the statement. "This is a critical need."The bombing campaign has left the U.S. Air Force with what an Air Force official described as munitions depot stocks "below our desired objective."

A racist, fascist organization. Wednesday afternoon, Bloomberg Politics released the first poll about Donald Trump's horrific proposal for a "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States." The topline finding is pretty shocking: 65 percent of likely Republican primary voters agreed with Trump. The poll was strikingly partisan. Only a small minority among likely Democratic primary voters supported it, resulting in only 37 percent of Americans supporting Trump's plan in total. Where are the statements of condemnation from Delaware's Republicans? Charles Copeland. Greg Lavelle. Colin Bonini. Mike Castle. All silent. There is an old Latin proverb: Qui tacet consentire videtur, ubi loqui debuit ac potuit (He who is silent, when he ought to have spoken and was able to, is taken to agree) To escape that, Delaware's Republicans must all not only denounce Donald Trump, they must pledge publicly that they will refuse to support and vote for Donald Trump should he be the Presidential nominee of the Republican Party. Otherwise, we must assume that all of Delaware's Republicans agree with Donald Trump.