This weekend the Minnesota Star Tribune wrote an editorial calling on Minnesotans to fill out their census forms. Minnesota is in danger of losing a Congressional district in 2010. Guess…
It's your back-to-work open thread time. For a lot of people, today is their first day back at work for 2010. Are you ready? Nate Silver at Fivethirtyeight posted this…
Unless there's an even bigger example of political and policy stupidity waiting in the wings, the answer is Yes, and it was announced in December of 2009. This example of…
Mike Castle wants to be a Senator. By all measures, he's a great Republican recruiting victory, he's a popular former governor and popular multi-term Representative. He has high name recognition…
The "grassroots" groups that grew up around the tea party movement were generally funded by industry-backed groups. The tea parties were heavily promoted by Fox News with some of their…
Devilstower's at Daily Kos blogged today about the lost decade of aughts. I recommend reading the whole thing if you get a chance but here's an excerpt: Don't forget the…
Not that anyone with a brain didn't see this coming. Via Balloon Juice: Brit Hume had some advice for Tiger Woods during this week’s “Fox News Sunday.” Woods will recover…
That is the title of this blog post from Ron Reagan's Air America blog. I never get to to hear Ron Regan's show, but he can be very good of even pretty wonky topics. So it was fun to hear him have on at the expense of wingnut buffoonery this past year.
The New York Times has an interesting Op-Ed concerning substitute teachers, which, I admit, is something I had never really thought about before. And I probably should have since it…
After watching their beaches wiped out by the Great Nor'Easter of 2009 and wanting the State of Delaware to pay for beach replenishment, Rehoboth Beach now wants to pump treat…
Bloomberg notes that even though the 2009 stock market rally was pretty remarkable, it did not save investors from the single worst decade of returns. And that is the single worst since they've been collecting data:
Dana Garrett has done what we have long hoped Jason330 would do, and what some wish Dave Burris wouldn't do... He has returned to blogging. Welcome back, Dana.
It was a bad December in Sussex county in the last two weeks of the month, while they should have been enjoying family and friends, Sussex citizens were fretting about…