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A New Mike Castle Decision Window –UPDATE

By cassandra_m August 3, 200911 Comments

Allan Loudell spoke to Mike Castle on WDEL news today about a number of subjects, and Castle indicated to Allan that he would be making a decision re: his electoral future in the "next month or so".

Afternoon Open Thread

By Unstable Isotope August 3, 200924 Comments

The tea partiers are putting their heckling strategy to work. Will harassment and thuggish behavior really help their cause? As a commenter at TPM asked - are these the same…

Paul Krugman Simplifies Health Care Reform For You

By Unstable Isotope August 3, 200914 Comments

The invaluable Paul Krugman explains health care reform for easy understanding: The essence is really quite simple: regulation of insurers, so that they can’t cherry-pick only the healthy, and subsidies,…

Election Day in SD 19!

By Unstable Isotope August 3, 200910 Comments

Voters of the 19th Senate district, be sure to vote today! The polls are open from 7 AM - 8 PM.

QOTE

By Donviti August 2, 200932 Comments

Is their anything preventing from buying a POS car for $500 privately and then driving the car to a dealership to get my $3500 off a new car?

Newport Folk Festival

By cassandra_m August 2, 20091 Comment

It is their 50th anniversary AND it's Pete Seeger's 90th birthday. And the whole thing is being streamed via NPR of all places. I had no idea until just now,…

The C Street “Family” or, How To Understand Right Wing Hypocrisy

By cassandra_m August 2, 20098 Comments

Jeff Sharlet wrote a book called The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, which expands on an article he wrote for Harpers called Jesus Plus Nothing. Sharlet actually had a chance to live with these guys for awhile and has an amazing (and chilling) story to tell about this group that is apparently Ground Zero for Christianists in power or who want to be in power.

When You Mess with the Delaware Majority Leader, You Get the Horns

By cassandra_m August 2, 20096 Comments

I wish I had thought of that title first, but it is the title of a blog post over at The Sporting Blog, part of The Sporting News. But Rep. Pete Schwarzkopf is shaping up to be something of a hero among some sports blogs.

Read All About It In the Sunday Papers-Aug. 2 Edition

By El Somnambulo August 2, 20094 Comments

LEAD STORY-The (UK) Independent: Secret Life of Sperm--Do Eggs Have a Built-In 'Loser' Code? While definitive ejaculations on this story might be premature (and might cause the ink to run),…

Best Health Care System In The World!

By Unstable Isotope August 2, 200936 Comments

Newsweek's Jonathan Alter channels his inner blogger to defend our current health care system: Why should I be entitled to the same insurance that members of Congress get? Blue Dogs…

Late Night Video — Banned Commercials

By cassandra_m August 1, 20092 Comments

These are from Ikea. Not sure if they were banned here or elsewhere....some portions of these 3 commercials may be NSFW

Blacks need to know when enough is enough

By Donviti August 1, 20093 Comments

First Glenn Beck with Obama is a racist that hates white people (including his mom and her parents I guess) Now Coulter telling us how minorities, blacks and women should…

Right Wing Townhall Harassment Strategy

By cassandra_m August 1, 200954 Comments

So I guess given the persistent ratcheting up up the paranoid, hateful and just plain fact-challenged rhetoric of the wingnuts this can't be a surprise -- one of the teabagging organizers is providing detailed directions on how to disrupt townhalls held by Democratic congresspeople this August