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Newark Film Festival

By cassandra_m September 11, 20096 Comments

Not a paid announcement, but definitely want to point everyone to one of my favorite Delaware events -- the Newark Film Festival. It started yesterday and runs though the 17th with films running at the Cinema Center 3 in Newark. You can see all of the showtimes here.

The Speech Was A Game-Changer

By Unstable Isotope September 11, 20099 Comments

Some survey data after Obama's primetime address to Congress on health care reform shows big jumps in popularity for President Obama and for health care reform. First the Daily Kos/Research…

The Trouble with Triggers

By cassandra_m September 11, 200910 Comments

Tom Carper (and other Senators) have been hyping a "fall-back trigger" for implementing a Public Option for health insurance reform. The Public Option has strong progressive support and is one of the last big questions to settle in this process.

In Memory

By Delaware Dem September 11, 200913 Comments

What “Balanced” Means Inside The Beltway

By pandora September 11, 20092 Comments

Glenn Greenwald has a must-read piece dissecting how journalists seem incapable of calling out one party for craziness without balancing out the criticism with a but they do it to…

Heckuva Job Bushie!

By Unstable Isotope September 11, 200923 Comments

The median income in the U.S. decreased from 2007 to 2008. The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that real median household income in the United States fell 3.6 percent between…

Divorce

By Delaware Dem September 10, 200928 Comments

Have you ever had a fight or argument with a friend or loved one where that friend or loved one's view of the circumstances and events involved in the argument…

Odds and Ends

By Delaware Dem September 10, 200911 Comments

From a Talking Points Memo Reader on the President's reaction to the petulant child Joe Wilson: I love how Obama gave him The Dadfinger. He squinted one eye and pointed…

Funny… Except I Can (and Have) See It Happening

By pandora September 10, 2009

Here's a taste of a post at kos called Probable beltway evolution of Wilson's "You Lie" Ezra Klein Joe Wilson’s “you lie” comment might be a great boon to the…

Thursday Open Thread

By Unstable Isotope September 10, 200911 Comments

I'll start the conversation. Henry Rollins "Liar" Discuss.

The Next Rightwing Outrage?

By Unstable Isotope September 10, 200916 Comments

So, is Sarah Palin running for president or what? Steve Benen tells us the next outrage that Palin is trying to start: We learned last night that President Obama expects…

Faux Outrage

By Donviti September 10, 200936 Comments

If I delve deep into my "fairometer" and ask it if it was wrong for the President to be called a liar I have to say it was not, in all…

Guest Post: RSmitty’s Thoughts On Last Night

By pandora September 10, 200936 Comments

Editor's note: RSmitty emailed the following post to Delaware Liberal. I have a high-level of self-regulation when it comes to principles and morals. In June 2009, I switched my party…