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The Peasants Are Revolting

By Unstable Isotope October 20, 20092 Comments

New York Times "Wealth Matters" columnist Paul Sullivan brought us the dire tale of how the wealthy are suffering during the economic downturn: IT turns out the other half —…

Redo in Afghanistan

By nemski October 20, 20097 Comments

President Hamid Karzai has relented to international and internal pressure agreeing to a runoff election scheduled for Nov. 7th of this year. Whether the runoff election will be held in…

Grab A Mop, Get to Work

By cassandra_m October 20, 20092 Comments

So I'm still catching up on the news and watched President Obama speak at a fundraiser in San Francisco. Definitely a red meat speech -- as much as he actually does that -- but it is a great speech specifically calling out the Party of No:

Presidential Derangement Syndrome

By Unstable Isotope October 20, 20099 Comments

Remember Bush Derangement Syndrome? Paul Krugman describes the symptoms: The symptoms of Bush Derangement Syndrome, in its fullest version, are that you believed 1. That the Bush tax cuts were…

Late Night Video — There’s A Rep for That!

By cassandra_m October 19, 20092 Comments

Don't know if Apple will be asking to take this down anytime soon, but this is clever and funny:

Down With Tyranny Evaluates John Carney

By cassandra_m October 19, 200952 Comments

...with help from Progressive Democrats of Delaware and Delaware Liberal contributors. The writer here also runs the Blue Progressive PAC and was looking for some input from the locals on John Carney's progressive cred. You can see the full blog post over at Down With Tyranny here. The key evaluation comes from Rebecca, I think:

Tea For One

By pandora October 19, 20094 Comments

Things are getting crazier out there. And Paul Baumbach asks a great question. What effect will conservative tea-party activists have on the GOP? Well... given the increase in criticism from…

Where Cries of Socialism Meet Racism

By nemski October 19, 20098 Comments

Christopher J. Lee, assistant professor at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has an interesting op-ed piece in the Christian Science Monitor looking at the racist undertones of…

Monday Open Thread

By Unstable Isotope October 19, 200951 Comments

I'm still all juiced up from the weekend craziness. You guys were chatty this weekend! It's open thread time - what do you want to talk about? It's a special…

The News Journal Op-Ed Page: A Wingnut Bastion?

By nemski October 19, 200912 Comments

What's in the water over at the News Journal Editorial Board? Today they are running an op-ed, "An Unconstitutional Nobel", tha looks at whether or not President Obama can constitutionally…

Spending Your Money Smartly

By liberalgeek October 19, 200913 Comments

There are some upcoming events that Democrats and Liberals should consider spending their hard-earned money to support. On November 10th, The Delaware Democratic Party is hosting their annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner at the Chase Center on the Waterfront in Wilmington. On November 13th is a fundraising dinner for the 25th districts state representative (and the top progressive in the house) John Kowalko.

The Republican Base Operates In Another World

By Unstable Isotope October 19, 200928 Comments

James Carville's political polling organization, Democracy Corps, released a very interesting report last week (warning: PDF). They surveyed the base of the Republican party and found that they had a different understanding of the world than the rest of the U.S. It's a much more paranoid view.

H1N1 Vaccine – Why Is This A Controversy?

By pandora October 19, 200932 Comments

On Friday my children brought home permission slips to receive the H1N1 vaccine. I completed them immediately, but, then again, my brother is an immuno geneticist so we had this…