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A Very Special Edition Of Delaware Political Weekly: Filing Deadline Day
Events, of course, will determine just how special, if at all, today’s edition is. The deadline for candidates to file is 12 noon today. We already have some news!: BREAKING: Last-minute primary challenger to Sarah McBride. One Elias Weir. Ran as an independent in RD 27 back in 2020. Also ran against LBR in the […]
DL Open Thread Tuesday, July 9, 2024
The media’s feeding frenzy for forcing Biden out of the race continues but seems to be slackening a bit because the public isn’t climbing on board. Like a pug on your leg, WaPo and all the political sites are still humping away at it, but the broader Democratic public doesn’t seem to see the big […]
Either BHL Or Kathy Jennings Is Lying. Correction: BHL Is Lying.
Her and her Opioid $$ Operators. If you haven’t already, read Cris Barrish’s story. Some choice excerpts: Delaware prosecutors are investigating how nonprofit Code Purple Kent County spent $290,000 from the state’s opioid settlement windfall, spurring Attorney General Kathy Jennings to call for an immediate halt to grants from the multimillion dollar fund aimed at […]
DL Open Thread Monday, July 8, 2024
The “Fascism on the Worldwide March” storyline took a major hit the past few days. First voters in England rejected the Tories. Now France’s far-right party, Marine LePen’s National Rally, which seemed poised to take over the premiership, got its ass mightily kicked in the country’s second round of elections. Not only did they not […]
Song of the Day 7/7: Mötley Crüe, “Don’t Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)”
The punditry consensus says Joe Must Go, but if you check the comments at liberal web sites it seems a lot of their readers aren’t sold on the idea. You can’t expect someone in mental decline to recognize the severity of their own condition, and Joe has turned characteristically combative in response to the calls […]
DL Open Thread: Sunday, July 7, 2024
For the purposes of today’s Open Thread, I’m gonna assume that Joe will eventually realize he has no choice but to end his candidacy, so I will discuss it no further today. Breaking From The News-Journal!! Seriously?: University of Delaware researchers discovered a kissing bug found in New Castle County in July 2023 was infected […]
Song of the Day 7/6: Ella Fitzgerald, “Too Darn Hot”
Just walking to the mailbox the past couple of days brought to mind this little rhyme I think I first heard in junior high school: When the weather’s hot and sticky That’s no time for dunkin’ dickie When the frost is on the pumpkin That’s the time for dickie dunkin’ I always liked that bit […]
DL Open Thread: Saturday, July 6, 2024
I didn’t watch last week’s debate. I dreaded it, and just tried to ignore it. Wasn’t until the next day that I read the virtually 100% consensus that it was a debacle for Biden. I watched last night’s interview. I saw a man unfit to be President. Although some pundits and the D cheerleaders […]
Delaware Political Weekly: June 28-July 4, 2024
1. Filing Deadline Tuesday. At 12 noon. We’ll be providing countdown coverage, although perhaps the more notable deadline is Friday, July 12 at 4:30 pm. That is for filed candidates to withdraw without forfeiting their filing fees. Collin, are you in or are you out? Do you really want to have the governorship of Bethany […]
Song of the Day 7/5: The Ramones, “The Job That Ate My Brain”
Joe Biden’s fight for survival wasn’t helped by telling his staff he needs an early bedtime, and he’s clearly made an enemy of the New York Times. So we’ve got three old guys running for president. To paraphrase Billy Martin, one’s got brain worms and the other two are senile. Trump and RFK Jr. have […]
DL Open Thread: Friday, July 5, 2024
The Third Way Comes To England. With a less-charismatic Tony Blair: Ben Riley-Smith, the Telegraph’s political editor, suggests it is “perhaps the most significant phrase” of the speech. He posted: Perhaps the most significant phrase hidden in that Starmer speech – this will be a “government unburdened by doctrine”. His leadership has rejected the simple […]
Song of the Day 7/4: Trey Parker, “America, Fuck Yeah!”
The South Park team’s marionette movie, “Team America: World Police,” was released 20 years ago, during the Iraq War, when patriotism was running high and Hollywood action movies pandered to it. Trey Parker and Matt Stone mocked both America’s imperialism and Hollywood’s outspoken liberal contingent, but the list of American cultural exports – McDonald’s! Disney […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, July 4, 2024
Typically one of the least-read Open Threads Of The Year. Will this year be different? I write, you decide. Every columnist everywhere has weighed in on whether Biden should step down or not, with every imaginable permutation as to what should happen if he does. Haven’t read them. Won’t read them. Won’t link to them. […]
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