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Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on June 18, 2024 17 Comments

Due to Juneteenth tomorrow, there are only two scheduled session days this week. However, both agendas are jam-packed, as are the committee schedules. No time to waste.  Pour yourselves another cuppa, and settle in for awhile. Whoa. Just look at that House Agenda.  Where to begin? At the beginning–if only for a Teaching Moment and […]

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DL Open Thread Tuesday, June 18, 2024

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Democrats would have an easier time drubbing Republicans for corruption if there weren’t so many corrupt Democrats. New Jersey is proving a happy hunting ground for indicting crooked ones. While Bob Menendez is still in court explaining his gold bar collection, South Jersey Democratic power broker George Norcross has been indicted for racketeering. Norcross pulled […]

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Yikes! Matt Meyer Channels His Inner Black Preacher…

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on June 17, 2024 68 Comments

…and drops off a check for $100K at Mt. Joy Church.  On behalf of New Castle County. Check out the video from about 48 minutes in: Looks like a pretty basic church/state violation to me.  But I’m no lawyer.

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BHL’s Corruption: It’s Not A Bug, It’s A Feature.

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on June 17, 2024 11 Comments

More essential reporting from Cris Barrish and WHYY News.  Read the article: Delaware gubernatorial candidate Bethany Hall Long has taken $25,000 in donations that exceed legal limit This would be bad enough when taken by itself.  However, when you consider the ‘borrowing’ of something like $200 K from donors, the alleged ‘audit’ that she won’t […]

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DL Open Thread Monday, June 17, 2024

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There is no news today outside of the usual huffing and puffing from Trump and his acolytes in politics and the media, so feel free to discuss what you want. In America’s supposedly liberal media, Jeff Bezos hired some British Fleet Street sleaze to run the Washington Post and the New York Times is having […]

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DL Open Thread: Sunday: June 16, 2024

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DL Open Thread: Sunday: June 16, 2024

Out: El Nino. In: La Nina.  What does it mean?  Not what it used to, thanks to that thing you can’t talk about in Florida: The strong El Nino weather condition that added a bit of extra heat to already record warm global temperatures is gone. It’s cool flip side, La Nina, is likely to […]

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Song of the Day 6/15: Françoise Hardy, “Tous les Garçons et les Filles”

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Guest post by Nathan Arizona Singer Françoise Hardy might have been the coolest person in a cool era, the pre-hippie 1960s. Pretty and waif-like, perfect shoulder-length hair, soulful eyes, legs meant for a miniskirt, demure, French. Hardy, whose death this week at 80 sparked a lot of happy recollections, was the most important of the […]

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DL Open Thread: Saturday, June 15, 2024

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Business CEO’s See The Real Trump.  I mean, they’ll support him anyway, but still…: Several CEOs “said that [Trump] was remarkably meandering, could not keep a straight thought [and] was all over the map,” CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin reported Friday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” Among the topics on which Trump offered scant details were how […]

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A DL Experiment: Say Only Nice Things About Your Choice For Governor

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on June 15, 2024 12 Comments

You read that right.  This thread is exclusively reserved for nice comments about your choice.  No compares and contrasts. Any responses deemed as not being, uh, responsive will be ruthlessly removed by our ruthless administrators.  (I wonder where ‘Ruth’ is.) Have at it!

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BREAKING: The Democrat Seeking To Succeed Paul Baumbach Is…

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on June 14, 2024 10 Comments

…Mara Gorman.  She filed her campaign committee today for the 23rd RD seat. Mara Gorman is the Public Affairs Manager for Planned Parenthood Of Delaware.  She was the Delaware Chapter Leader for Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense In America.  She has been a freelance writer for 24 years and, for ten years, was the […]

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Song of the Day 6/14: James Cagney, “You’re a Grand Old Flag”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on June 14, 2024 1 Comment

It’s Martha Ann Alito’s favorite holiday, so here’s George M. Cohan’s tribute to Old Glory, as delivered by James Cagney in his Oscar-winning turn as Cohan in the 1942 film “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” You seldom hear the tune, written in 1906 for Cohan’s musical “George Washington, Jr.,” these days unless you listen to military band […]

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Delaware Political Weekly: June 6-13, 2024

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on June 14, 2024 26 Comments

1.  Eugene Young Drops Out.  One of the fears that I had expressed, and one that was likely shared by other progressive-minded folks, had been that the race could have turned negative.  Neither Eugene nor Sarah were predisposed to allow that to happen.  Others may disagree, but I believe that Eugene still has a very […]

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DL Open Thread: Friday, June 14, 2024

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How Thomas Is Like Trump:  So Corrupt That Yet More Corruption Hardly Registers: Justice Clarence Thomas never disclosed three trips aboard the private jet of the Texas billionaire Harlan Crow, according to documents obtained by the Senate Judiciary Committee released on Thursday. The documents, obtained by Democrats on the panel, list three visits that have […]

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