Delaware Liberal

It is absolutely essential that the eventual Democratic candidate appeals to the 5% of voters who are "moderates" with no coherent or settled opinions on anything. They are the real Americans. Anything other than trying to be as vague and vacuous as these voters by "moving to the center" is distasteful liberalism. And it is an iron law of American politics that distasteful liberalism cannot win.

As you read this recall that Bernie Sanders beat Clinton in Michigan, winning in 73 of Michigan's 83 counties. Also recall that Clinton went on to lose Michigan to Donald Trump.

WASHINGTON Nancy Pelosi is issuing a pointed message to Democrats running for president in 2020: Those liberal ideas that fire up the party's base are a big loser when it comes to beating President Donald Trump. Proposals pushed by Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders like Medicare for All and a wealth tax play well in liberal enclaves like her own district in San Francisco but won't sell in the Midwestern states that sent Trump to the White House in 2016, she said. "What works in San Francisco does not necessarily work in Michigan," Pelosi said at a roundtable of Bloomberg News reporters and editors on Friday. "What works in Michigan works in San Francisco talking about workers' rights and sharing prosperity." "Remember November," she said. "You must win the Electoral College.

On a good night, with the good host, Saturday Night Live can still be funny. The 'Weekend Update' segment is funny, although John Oliver gets some of the same laughs while managing to work in some trenchant analysis. The part of the show that is consistently unfunny, frequently cringe inducing and generally unwatchable is the political cold open. These segments typically starring Kate McKinnon as Elizabeth Warren or Alec Baldwin as Trump are just terrible. McKinnon's Warren (like her Hillary Clinton) is just as overly broad, dopey and lacking in any incisive commentary as Baldwin's Trump. The writers seem to be on autopilot. The "jokes" are recycled show after show which creates the awkward feeling that the cold opening is parody of itself.

Because our system puts protecting the profits of insurance companies above any public benefit they provide, insurance companies that have grown rich by raking in premiums for years, have now suddenly cancelled 350,000 California homeowners insurance policies. Cancelled. Done. All those premiums paid in? Ashes.

Jennifer Burt knows she lives in a fire-prone community. That’s why she’s done everything she can to fire-proof her home in Meadow Vista, in the bushy, densely wooded Placer County foothills, even installing a sprinkler system on the roof. Yet a few weeks ago, her insurance carrier — Lloyd’s of London, known for insuring high-risk properties — told her it was declining to renew her homeowners’ policy.

Uninsurable means unsellable. So these properties have been suddenly reassesed at some value approaching $0.00. The same fate is in store for coastal Delaware. It is an economic and climate change inevitability at this point.

Larry Lambert makes this point on an episode of 'Highland's Bunker', and it is a good one. Don't use "raise the minimum wage" but use "restore the minimum wage". It is more accurate. Setting the minimum wage at $15 per hour by 2024 and indexing it to the median wage growth thereafter would restore the minimum wage to 1968 levels. The wording, "raising the minimum wage" gives the impression that working people are getting some bonus. They aren't.

A reporter for the local Washington, D.C., affiliate was interviewing Nationals fans at a bar in the wake of their World Series win last night when she asked one guy…