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DL Open Thread: Friday, August 26, 2022
Don’t Intellectuals Have Anything Better To Do? ‘Some’ argue against using the term ‘progressive’: But a backlash has been brewing. Some thinkers on the left question whether embracing “progressive” implies a certain level of comfort with the idea that history is guided by a hidden hand and somehow moves in a way that makes each […]
Unsurprising News – Leader of major Texas Anti-Abortion group arrested for soliciting a minor
Luke Bowen speaking at the Right to Life Panel at the Texas Youth Summitt Sep 19, 2020. Luke Bowen, the Political Director and the public face of Texas Right to Life, was arrested earlier this month for solicitation of a minor. The Forced Pregnancy/Rapist Rights organization fired Mr. Bowen on the same day he was […]
“Sarah McBride to Primary Tom Carper” Part 1
That is a headline I expect to read in about a year. Provided Carper doesn’t croak in the meantime. Why do I think Mcbride and not Blunt Rochester is going to take out the shambling corpse? Well, I’ll tell you. But first, someone check my math. Carper’s current term (the 116th Congress) started in January […]
“Feminists need rape.”
I don’t think even having buddies like this is enough to disqualify Vance from polite DC, bipartisan society. J.D. Vance, the Republican nominee for Senate in Ohio, is typically described as the bestselling author of Hillbilly Elegy, a venture capitalist, and a Never Trumper who came to embrace Donald Trump. But that snapshot doesn’t do justice to […]
My Influencers
I’ve been aware of electoral politics since I was four. My father ran as a Republican for New Castle County Sheriff in 1958. The Delaware Democratic party was still a Dixecrat party and Black registrations did not begin to switch over in any numbers until the JFK race. Anyway, I remember the rush when the […]
Larry’s Been Lyin’–BIG Time!
A. I understand that ex-cops struggle with Prevarication Withdrawal. All those years of lying to people they pull over, lying to suspects, lying on the witness stand, make it difficult, in some cases impossible, to return to a world where telling the truth matters. B. I also understand how politicians are prone to embellish their […]
Song of the Day 8/25: Billy Joe Royal, “Cherry Hill Park”
This one’s for Gary Busey, who ran into some trouble over there in Cherry Hill, N.J., a couple of weeks ago at a horror film convention. Billy Joe Royal of Valdosta, Ga., is usually described as a “country soul” singer. This wasn’t his biggest hit — that would be his debut single, “Down in the […]
DL Open Thread: Thursday, August 25, 2022
Student Debt Forgiveness: More Creeping Incrementalism From Biden. Did you expect anything–more?: The Biden administration has already approved nearly $32 billion in loan forgiveness to 1.6 million people through targeted actions for disabled borrowers and those defrauded by their colleges. But Biden had drawn the ire of activists and some student loan borrowers who were […]
Objective Journalism
No matter how stupid the GOP’s position is on any issue, our media always gives it equal standing with non-stupid positions. So “Rapists should have paternal rights.” gets equal time with the position “Rapists shouldn’t have paternal rights.” “People should own machine guns.” is the instant and somehow relevant response to “People shouldn’t own […]
“Dirty Money Deb” must to go! Action Items
This has been a very revealing election cycle. All of the bloated plutocrats and their paid-off lackeys in Leg Hall have been throughly smoked out. The bought and paid for toadies like “Dirty Money Deb” Heffernan have even brazenly accepted awards for their service to her paymasters over the interest of their constituent. Therefor, each […]
Deb Heffernan’s Updated Financial Campaign Report Tells You Everything You Need To Know
This is the update that, had it been up to Deb, and hadn’t been demanded by Nancy Willing, would have remained hidden from the public until 8 days out. Let’s just see which miscreants ponied up at that fundraiser: Brian DiSabatino: $300 Building & Construction Trades: $600 Delaware Restaurant Association (those folks who really fought […]
Song of the Day 8/24: The Gap Band, “You Dropped a Bomb on Me”
I’ve been trying to work up some concern that the Moscow car-bombing of Darya Dugina, daughter of “Putin’s Rasputin” Alexander Dugin, will lead to something worse than what’s already happening in Ukraine. Sorry, just can’t see it. Conventional wisdom claims that Putin will react by cracking down harder. Uh, no. You might as well take […]
Return The Dark Money, Larry!
Rethuglican Dark Money at that. Kop Kabalist Larry Mitchell, who is in a neck-and-neck primary battle with DeShanna Neal, just received an influx of dark money from LLC’s that, by definition, can hide behind their corporate status. In this case, the money came from a single ‘address’, 100 Rockland Falls Road, DE 19732. Here are […]
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