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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

Filed in Featured, Open Thread by on June 14, 2024 1 Comment

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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BREAKING: Rep. Paul Baumbach Retiring!

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on June 13, 2024 9 Comments

Announced from the floor of the House this afternoon. He will retire with an admirable set of legislative accomplishments. A true progressive who knew how to get things done.  In some cases, no matter how long it took. Word on the street is that there’s a strong progressive waiting in the wings, but I don’t […]

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Yes, Sarah McBride Is A Delaware Way Candidate. And That’s OK

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on June 13, 2024 3 Comments

GUEST POST BY JASON SCOTT It isn’t controversial to state that the “Delaware Way” prioritizes corporate constituents over human ones. We often define the Delaware Way as deference to established political relationships and the agreements—both spoken and unspoken—among politicians to uphold these rules in order to advance within the hierarchy. While this structure underpins the […]

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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Thursday, June 13, 2024

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on June 13, 2024 5 Comments

SB 313 (Townsend) is on today’s Senate Agenda.  Wanna know why it’s gonna pass?: Why does this matter? Money. In fiscal year 2023, corporations and other entities such as limited liability corporations paid Delaware about $1.86 billion in franchise taxes and fees. This amounts to nearly 30% of state revenues for last year, more than […]

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DL Open Thread: Thurs., June 13, 2024

Filed in Featured, Open Thread by on June 13, 2024 11 Comments

Cop Predators-State By State: They served in police departments big and small. They were new recruits and seasoned veterans, patrol officers and chiefs of police. They understood the power of their guns and badges. In many cases, they used that very power to find and silence their victims. A Washington Post investigation has found that […]

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Song of the Day 6/12: The Unusual Suspect, “We Didn’t Start the Fire”

Filed in Arts and Entertainment by on June 12, 2024 4 Comments

This YouTuber’s shtick is editing together movie clips to substitute them for the real vocals in popular songs. It looks like a lot of work, and most of the results are amusing mainly for the films the editor chooses to sample, because it’s not hard to find examples of the words in, say, Rick Astley’s […]

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BREAKING: Eugene Young Drops Out!

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on June 12, 2024 20 Comments

Story broken by that bleeping BLT in the comments section. Got lots to say about this, but I’ve got to run our for awhile. Bet you’ve got lots to say as well. So SAY it!

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General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Filed in Delaware, Featured by on June 12, 2024 16 Comments

A good day yesterday.  All of the good bills passed.  None of them ran into trouble.  Only weird vote yesterday was on a bill moving Delaware’s fleet of vehicles to an all-EV standard by 2040.  All the R’s voted no, all the D’s voted yes–except for Sean Matthews, who voted no.  He is spending his […]

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DL Open Thread Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Filed in National, Open Thread by on June 12, 2024 3 Comments

Hunter Biden was convicted of being a gun-toting drug addict – or was it a drug-addicted gun toter? – and MAGAts, in true Old Man Yells at Clouds form, are angry about it, and in the stupidest possible way. They claim Joe Biden orchestrated the conviction of his son to justify his prosecution of Donald […]

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