Apology

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Senator Carper didn't feel like getting yelled out by a pitchfork bearing bunch of GOP/SCCOR operatives saying that the Manchurian President is out to harvest Grandma's organs and infect everyone with dead baby juice.

Silence is deafening

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One of our resident bigotted, bible thumping, Clinton and the Dem's do it too trolls, aka Republican David, David A. or whatever website he is trying to get readers to…

Morning Open Thread

He's baaaack! Rick Santorum for president in 2012? Stephen Hawking responds to the nutty Investor's Business Daily editorial: "I wouldn't be here today if not for the NHS". Surprise, surprise…

In Which We See a Castle vs Biden Senate Race Becomes the CW

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Tom Schaller over at Five Thirty Eight takes a long look at the possibility of a Republican taking the Senate seat previously held by Barack Obama. He cites an article written over at the Rothenberg Political Report notes that a seat held by someone who has gone to the White House (either President or VP) has flipped 50% of the time, but since the numbers involved are pretty small it is hard to know what that means. But before he gets to looking at the landscape of the Senate race in IL, he stops in Delaware first:

Why You Should Come on Saturday

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I was having lunch at the Iron Hill Brewery with a friend when my phone rang. The caller ID said that it was "home" calling. "Hi Honey." Silence. "Hello?" There was a slight catching of the breath on the other end of the line. "Honey?" "The doctor called... It's cancer"