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George Santos And Bethany Hall Long: Separated At Birth?

By El Somnambulo November 16, 202310 Comments

Does this sound familiar?: ...investigators found evidence that _____ used campaign funds for personal purposes, defrauded donors and filed false or incomplete campaign finance and financial disclosure reports... Let's fill…

DL Open Thread: Thursday, November 16, 2023

By El Somnambulo November 16, 202313 Comments

Do We Really Need The Governor's Wife In The Senate? New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy thinks so. Me? Uh, no: Politically, Tammy Murphy has been one of the New Jersey…

Song of the Day 11/15: The Four Seasons, “Silence Is Golden”

By Alby November 15, 2023

Bethany Hall-Long is a too young to have been a fan of this tune when it came out in 1964 as the B-side to the No. 1 single "Rag Doll,"…

DL Open Thread Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023

By Alby November 15, 20238 Comments

They held a session of Congress yesterday and the Jerry Springer Show broke out. In a Senate hearing, Oklahoma Sen. Sen. Markwayne Mullin threatened to fight Teamsters union President Sean…

COMMENT RESCUE: Did BHL Raid Campaign Coffers To Pay Off Hubby’s Debts?

By El Somnambulo November 15, 20239 Comments

Oh, and then make sure said hubby filed inaccurate campaign finance reports to cover up what they did? This not only sounds plausible, but the commenter seems to know a…

BHL’s Potemkin Village Campaign

By El Somnambulo November 14, 202328 Comments

If you don't look closely at her run for Governor, it appears that it has all the trappings of a normal campaign. If you examine it, really examine it, it…

Song of the Day 11/14: Martha and the Vandellas, “Nowhere to Run”

By Alby November 14, 2023

So Bethany Hall-Long thinks she can brush her money troubles under the rug? Martha and the Vandellas have a message for her. Martha and the Vandellas took this Holland-Dozier-Holland banger…

Comment Rescue: Coons Wants Humanitarian Pauses – And Quiet

By Alby November 14, 202311 Comments

H/t to Joe Connor, who reads the New York Post so you don't have to. Seems our junior senator, Chris Coons, took an Amtrak train recently, where he had a…

DL Open Thread Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023

By Alby November 14, 20233 Comments

Republicans in Ohio are showing how little regard their party has for democracy, and by extension the public: As soon as the state's electorate rejected their forced-birth agenda by a…

Song of the Day 11/13: Buffy Sainte Marie, “Universal Soldier”

By Alby November 13, 2023

Buffy Sainte-Marie has been in the news recently because a documentary has cast strong doubt on her claim to indigenous ancestry. She has long claimed she was born on a…

Is Collin O’Mara Running for Governor?

By Alby November 13, 202323 Comments

We've seen lots of chatter lately about former state Secretary of Natural Resources Collin O'Mara exploring a run for governor. I just can't see it. Since stepping down from the…

Arden’s Single-Tax A Cure For Urban Blight?

By El Somnambulo November 13, 2023

Detroit's mayor thinks so: When Mayor Mike Duggan talks about his accomplishments in Detroit, the list is both impressive and sad. He had the streetlights turned back on, and reopened…

DL Open Thread Monday, Nov. 13, 2023

By Alby November 13, 202314 Comments

South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott became the latest GOP hopeful to realize that trying to change the zombified minds of Trump cultists is a fool's errand. He ended his presidential…