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House Health Care Bill Revealed

By Unstable Isotope October 29, 200931 Comments

Nancy Pelosi is holding a press conference to announce the House health care reform bill. The bill is called "The Affordable Health Care For America Act, " H.R. 3962. Click through for a review of some key provisions.

Drinking Liberally: Death Panel Edition

By liberalgeek October 29, 200933 Comments

This ThursdayTonight, Drinking Liberally will be hosting an event at Homegrown Cafe in Newark. In honor of Halloween and the Summer of Spittle, we will be sponsoring a costume contest…

QotD

By Unstable Isotope October 29, 20098 Comments

This edition of the QotD is brought to you by Armstrong Williams. Do you remember Armstrong Williams? He was just one of the media figures secretly paid by the Bush…

3rd Quarter GDP Grew 3.5%

By Unstable Isotope October 29, 200910 Comments

McDowell To White House, Discusses Energy

By nemski October 29, 2009

Did you know that Delaware was pointed out as one of the most improved states in energy efficiency by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE)? Neither did I.…

Delaware Budget Hearing Dates Announced

By nemski October 29, 20093 Comments

State officials have announced November hearing dates for the FY 2011 budget cycle reports The Community News.

Time To Lift The Cuban Embargo

By nemski October 29, 20098 Comments

It's been 47 years since the embargo on Cuban goods was put in place by the United States and its been 18 years in a row that the United Nations…

Obama Makes Surprise Trip To Dover To Honor Fallen Troops

By Unstable Isotope October 29, 200964 Comments

Last night President Obama made a surprise trip to Dover AFB to observe the ceremony honoring the Americans killed in Afghanistan on Monday. President Obama made an unscheduled, overnight trip…

Late Night Video: Get Motivated!

By nemski October 28, 2009

George W. Bush gets Stewart and Colbert motivated.

A Casuality of the War on Drugs

By nemski October 28, 20093 Comments

Sens. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). are my new heroes. Kohl and Whitehouse are asking the Drug Enforcement Agency to scale back their enforcement of the Controlled Substance Act as it is "producing a troubling side effect by denying some hospice and elderly patients needed pain medication" reports The Washington Post.

President Obama Signs Hate Crimes Act Today

By cassandra_m October 28, 200925 Comments

The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act was signed by President Obama in a White House ceremony today. This new law is an amendment to the Defense Appropriations Bill, which will be signed in a separate event to day. This long needed law (and one promised by the Obama campaign):

US Chamber of Horrors

By nemski October 28, 20097 Comments

Delaware Liberal like facts and we like pretty pictures, consequently we love graphs. Daniel Gross at Slate did a fine piece on the failings of the US Chamber of Commerce:…

One Is The Loneliest Number

By Unstable Isotope October 28, 200914 Comments

A very interesting thing happened at a Senate hearing this week that hasn't gotten much attention, but should. Several Republican senators disagreed with climate science denier-conspiracist Jim Inhofe on the…