Delaware Liberal

In this week's address, the President discussed his continued efforts to build a fairer and more equitable criminal justice system. In his weekly message, Governor Markell discusses his commitment to ensure that Delaware’s professional regulations are instruments of opportunity for Delaware’s skilled workforce, including an executive order signed he this week that brings government together with community members to review existing licensing requirement and recommend ways to eliminate unnecessary barriers to entry.

Hoopes Reservoir, near Greenville, in the spring. Photo by xzmattzx.

Of all the Republican's ridiculous and needlessly cruel crap, is there anything more ridiculous and needlessly cruel that the Republican Jihad against transgender bathroom use? It is fucking nuts. Bravo to Delaware's own Sarah McBride for calling out this bullshit so elegantly, and so effectively (46,436 views on Buzzfeed and trending)

Rallying inside the belly of the Centrist/DLC/Third Way/Bought-and-Paid-for Corporate Democratic Party beast: Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders will hold a rally on Saturday in Wilmington, the campaign announced Friday. Sanders…

Good old Uncle Joe keeping it real up in here.

“I like the idea of saying, ‘We can do much more,’ because we can,” Biden told The New York Times in an interview published Thursday. Clinton, a former Obama administration official, has criticized Sanders on the trail for his bold proposals, suggesting that his policies aren’t pragmatic. “I don’t think any Democrat’s ever won saying, ‘We can’t think that big — we ought to really downsize here because it’s not realistic,’” Biden said. “C’mon man, this is the Democratic Party! I’m not part of the party that says, ‘Well, we can’t do it.’” Biden, who has said he and President Barack Obama do not plan to endorse in the primary, added that presidents are always told not to push anything they can’t be successful in because that would minimize their authority. “I completely disagree with that proposition,” he said. “Everything I’ve ever cared about — with the exception of the president’s brilliant passage of the Affordable Care Act — takes time. The only way to get these big things done is talk about them.”

The old St. Paul Methodist Episcopal Church, on High Street in Odessa. Photo by xzmattzx.

"Compelling Mexico to Pay for the Wall" is item number 1 on Trump's Web Site "positions" tab. I've stripped out some irrelevant material and left the rube-goldbergian machinations that Trump is going to use to get the Mexican Government to pay $5-10 billion for the construction of a border wall. You can read the plan below, but basically... he is going to use some powers given to the President under the Patriot Act to threaten to stop wire transfers from the US to Mexico. The threat alone will bring Mexico to heal. Cinchy.

Prince, the legendary singer and songwriter, is dead, his publicist confirmed in a statement. Prince was 57. Prince’s body was discovered at his compound in Paisley Park in Chanhassen, Minnesota,…