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Song of the Day 3/28: The (English) Beat, “Stand Down Margaret”

By Alby March 28, 20191 Comment

British pop lost another voice this week when Ranking Roger of the English Beat died of cancer at just 56 years old. The Beat was at the forefront of England's…

General Assembly Post-Game Wrap-Up/Pre-Game Show: Weds., March 27, 2019

By El Somnambulo March 27, 201912 Comments

Four D state reps voted against one of the most innocuous gun reform measures you could possibly imagine. Keeping loaded firearms away from kids would seem to be as cut-and-dried…

Time for a “Moms Demand Action” primary challenge of the NRA’s Quin Johnson & Andria Bennett

By jason330 March 27, 20193 Comments

The NRA is on the run in Delaware and it is time to drive the blood-soaked caucus out of the state once and for all. Moms Demand Action has been…

Biden Condemns ‘White Man’s Culture’

By Alby March 27, 201920 Comments

One of Joe Biden's quirks is that he thinks nobody notices when he changes. He's had two hair-plug operations and an eye job, but nobody ever talks about it so…

Song of the Day 3/27: The Walker Brothers, “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore”

By Alby March 27, 20194 Comments

UK music critics and fans are mourning the March 22 death of Scott Walker, pop idol-turned-avant garde composer. He's most widely known as lead singer of the Walker Brothers, a…

2020 is the only play and it always has been

By jason330 March 26, 20195 Comments

This dude knows what's going on. And this from TPM: In the late 19th and early 20th century, German military strategy, influenced by the work of the historian Hans Delbrück,…

Delaware is Solidly Blue, So Why is Coons Running as Republican-Lite?

By jason330 March 26, 20199 Comments

Coons has built a brand ID in the Senate as the GOP's favorite Democrat. That makes no sense when you look at the state that he was elected to represent.…

Rethugs Looking For New State Chair

By El Somnambulo March 26, 201916 Comments

Mike Harrington is stepping down as Chair of the State Republican Committee. From Matt Bittle's Twitter feed: Republican Party Chairman Mike Harrington is not running for a second term. "Unfortunately,…

Breaking: Lisa Blunt Rochester Statement on Mueller Report Non-Release

By jason330 March 26, 201911 Comments

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE-AL) issued the following statement following Attorney General Bill Barr's non-release of the report of the Office of Special Counsel headed by Robert S. Mueller:

New Jersey Harshes the Legal Marijuana Mellow

By Alby March 26, 20192 Comments

The road to recreational marijuana legalization was closed for repairs in New Jersey yesterday, when a wide-ranging bill that would have both legalized weed and made it easier to expunge…

Delaware General Assembly Pre-Game Show: Tues., March 26, 2019

By El Somnambulo March 26, 201920 Comments

Will the NRA once again kill common-sense gun reform? It's possible. The House is scheduled to consider HB 63(Lynn) today. The bill: ...revises the crime of "unlawfully permitting a child…

Song of the Day 3/26: Was (Not Was), “Somewhere in America There’s a Street Named After My Dad”

By Alby March 26, 20196 Comments

When Detroit natives David Weiss and Don Fagenson formed Was (Not Was), they both adopted the surname Was and combined to create music based on a simple philosophy. In the…

Sarah Sanders Floats Death Penalty for Pelosi, Schumer, Nadler, & Schiff

By jason330 March 25, 20195 Comments

Sarah Sanders: "They literally accused the President of the United States of being an agent for a foreign government. That's equivalent to treason. Thats punishable by death in this country."…