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The News Journal Plays the Patsy Again

By Alby August 21, 201835 Comments

A week ago the News Journal ran a front-page article on a confidential report on the state Auditor's Office and the performance of Kathleen Davies, who was second-in-command to elected…

Kaboom

By Alby August 21, 20182 Comments

In a piece of timing Iraqi terrorists setting off bombs would envy, Trump's twin nemeses were both adjudicated guilty within two minutes this afternoon. Paul Manafort is guilty on eight…

Aug. 21 Open Thread: The Great Security Clearance Purge

By Alby August 21, 201812 Comments

The Great Security Clearance Purge has dominated headlines for the past couple of days, mainly because Trump is enjoying his unfettered power to punish people who displease him and it…

Mike Harrington is having his ass utterly and truly kicked

By jason330 August 21, 20189 Comments

I don't mean to tread on El Som's turf, but I see that Bonini has a challenger now (PHILLIPS, LOUISA), which (I think) means that no Republican is running unopposed this year. While we've seen some pitifully ineffective GOP chairs over the years, Mike Harrington seems to be the hands down winner in terms of uselessness.

Delaware Liberal Primary Endorsements

By El Somnambulo August 21, 20186 Comments

We at Delaware Liberal proudly and unanimously endorse the following candidates for public office in the Sept. 6 Primary elections: United States Senate: KERRI EVELYN HARRIS Attorney General: CHRIS JOHNSON…

Song Of The Day: Aug. 21, 2018

By El Somnambulo August 21, 2018

'Somewhere in America, there's a street named after my dad.'

Rethugs Get An AG Candidate, And He’s…A Democrat

By El Somnambulo August 20, 20189 Comments

An African-American Democrat at that. One Bernard Pepukayi, who has worked for both Ruth Ann Minner and, wait for it, Tom Gordon. Here's the News-Journal article: https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/politics/2018/08/20/bernard-pepukayi-election-delaware-attorney-general-republican/1040132002/ My favorite quote?:…

Aug. 20 Open Thread: The Case of the Vanishing Republicans

By Alby August 20, 20187 Comments

The underreported story of the midterms is the exodus of Republicans from elected office. Dave Wasserman of the Cook Political Report notes that one of every six incumbent Republicans is…

Blueberry Pancakes Reign Resplendent

By jason330 August 20, 201815 Comments

The highest and best use of blueberries is in pancakes. Democratic Socialist, Republicans (like Tom Carper), White Nationalists (like Ken Simpler and the rest of the GOP), Antifa, Sendero Luminoso,…

Song Of The Day: Aug. 20, 2018

By El Somnambulo August 20, 20185 Comments

We begin 'Thoroughfares That Don't Exist...Or Do They?' Week with a visit to Lonely Avenue:

Aug. 19 Open Thread: You Can’t Corner Someone in an Oval Office

By Alby August 19, 20181 Comment

The New York Times got Trump's dander up yesterday with the story that White House counsel Don McGahn has spent something like 30 hours in interviews cooperating with to the…

Climate change is a hoax. Nothing to see here folks… move along.

By jason330 August 19, 20185 Comments

CHENGANNUR, India (AP) — Some 800,000 people have been displaced and over 350 have died in the worst flooding in a century in southern India’s Kerala state, officials said Sunday,…

Delaware State News Highlights Carper’s Support from Out of State PACs

By jason330 August 19, 201812 Comments

Kerri Harris' ability to clearly define who Tom Carper is during this primary has been world class. I mean, Kent County Democrats waking up to this on the front page…