High Broderism Comes to Delaware Shilling for Mike Castle
The so-called Dean of the Washington Press Corps turns his attentions to Delaware this AM, with a column that discusses his thoughts about the possible upcoming race between Mike Castle and Beau Biden for Senate. It is a rare thing for the Villagers to turn their attentions to us, and I suppose we should expect more of this in the coming months.
Biden In For Bumpy Ride?
In Sunday's News Journal, there's an article about Beau Biden and the possibility of him running. The article is tilted, "Senate run could distract Biden". Now, I normally like Esteban Para's writing, but not this time.
Around the Horn Sunday
This week's roundup of local political news from around the Delaware blogosphere. We have two three new blogs this week. The last two weeks were all about Castle, Biden, and Zachary.
Where The Wild Things Are . . . For Now
Through years of study and research, scientists and park rangers have determined that thousands of acres of Aspens are dying out due to global warming.
Burning Books For Halloween, Now That’s Scary
Via Raw Story: A Baptist Church near Asheville, N.C., is hosting a "Halloween book burning" to purge the area of "Satan's" works, which include all non-King James versions of the…
Sunday Open Thread
You guys sure are chatty this weekend. Here's a fresh thread for you. Is the Delaware Democratic party's website fubar-ed for you as well? An excellent diary on anti-vaccine hysteria…
Bono Writes A Love Letter To America
International philanthropist Bono wrote an op-ed for today's New York Times on why Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize and what it means to the rest of the world: Well,…
Breaking: Delaware Legislative Travel
Update: The News Journal published Ginger Gibson's article today, "Legislator' travel tabs often missing". State lawmakers can travel when and where they want on the taxpayer's tab. snip Getting into…
CNN Leaves It There
I am always in awe of how astute Jon Stewart and his writers are. This is an astonishingly good takedown of the entire cable culture -- the focus on providing programming and information, bu not necessarily on providing any context (fact-checking, esp) for that information. Indulging themselves in the He Say/She Say without giving you any way of being able to evaluate that info.
Mr. Blumenauer Goes To Washington
The New York Times has a great little piece about Earl Blumenauer, a liberal congressman from Portland, Oregon. Blumenauer was one of the earliest supporters of Senator Obama's bid for…
Fixing the Unfair Crack vs Cocaine Penalties
Senator Ted Kaufman is one of the co-sponsors of a bill introduced into the full Senate this week (it was voted out of the Judiciary Committee back in July) that would finally take on the incredible disparities in sentencing for those who are convicted of possession of either drug.