Items by nemski

• Republicans Have Big Ones Too — Bills That Is

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  Remember the lie about the Health Care legislation was longer than War and Peace? Turns out that out of the top 10 longest bills, half of them have been written by Republicans reports Open Congress. But long bills are written by both Democrats and Republicans. The second longest bill to appear [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 9:00am EST
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• In Remembrance

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  Today in 1963 one of the great presidents of the United States was struck down. [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 10:00am EST
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• The Mississippi Health Care Stomp

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  You hear that sucking sound? Yeah, that’s state of Mississippi. Gov. Haley Barbour was on Hardball the other day and commented how he thinks states would do a better job at health care than the federal government. Digby over at Hullaballo points out that Mississippi ranks 51st out of the [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 1:41pm EST
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• Sometimes Size Doesn’t Matter

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  Matthew Yglesias has a great look at the size of bills on Capitol HIll and disingenuousness of Republicans who complain about a bill’s length. The bill is long in part because it’s a complicated bill with lots of words in it. But part of the issue is that bills are printed [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 11:16am EST
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• Hypocrisy and The Art of Judge Blocking

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  At this point in the last two presidents’ first terms, W had 28 lower court justices confirmed and Clinton 27. Guess how many for Obama. Seriously, guess. Come on just guess before you get to the next sentence. Okay, okay, the answer is six, or 6 for those of you [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 7:00am EST
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• Joe’s In Charge — Biden Style

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  Fake Joe Biden on Saturday Night Live. Very funny. h/t Ryan Cormier [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 2:40pm EST
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• After The Deluge

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  Tropical Storm Ida has left her mark on Delaware. The question we have is will we learn from Ida’s destruction or will we keep on doing the same old, same old. WHYY reports that it will cost some $15-20 million to replenish the beaches. The News Journal reports that over [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 10:30am EST
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• wRong Willams, Clue — Clue, wRong Williams

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  Update: The online News Journal dropped the following line from Williams’ column: And then, if some quirk of nature would defy all the universe and he would beat Carney, he would face former lieutenant governor, two-term governor and eight-term congressman Mike Castle. Also, I could not find a correction anywhere on the [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 9:59am EST
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• Death Panelling Goes For Cheap

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  Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) writes in The New York Times about his intentions and the ramifications of a small piece of legislation he added into the health care package. . . . I found it perverse that Medicare would pay for almost any medical procedure, yet not reimburse doctors for having [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 9:30am EST
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• Where Did You Hear That Before?

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  Lobbyists ghostwrote a few, no, several, no, many speeches that uttered during the historic health care debate last week reports The New York Times. Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole or in part, by Washington lobbyists working for Genentech, one of the world’s largest biotechnology companies. E-mail [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 8:30am EST
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• War – What Is It Good For?

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  Matthew Yglesias takes a look at the cost of war versus the economic benefits on the home front and comes to the standard meme that the financial burden of war might have some good on the economy: But the basic progressive analysis of the current economic situation is that higher short-term [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 7:30am EST
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• Biden To Appear on The Daily Show

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  Pen this in on your calendar, Vice President Joe Biden will appear on The Daily Show Tuesday night. Last week we had soon-to-be-retired Congressman Mike Castle on Colbert talking about cocks and this week, Biden will say something stupid as well. [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 7:00am EST
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• Ted Kaufman, Rock Star?

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  Things I learned today when reading the New York Times article that featured Senator Ted Kaufman. Kaufman has reached rock-star status among Senate professional staff On a weekly basis, recognizes superior work by federal employees That I am sadden he’s not running for re-election in 2010 [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 11:00am EST
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• Hot Stove League: Republican Gains in 2010, Not So Fast

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  For those political junkies out there, Bob Benenson of CQ Politics has an analysis of the 2009 elections and what they may or may not mean for 2010: GOP Comeback: Not So Fast. But there’s a significant amount of countervailing evidence [to claims of a GOP resurgence] , not only in [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 10:30am EST
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• Politico’s Improbable Look at History

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  Politico reports that the Obama Administration will “focus extensively on cutting the federal deficit in 2010.” Politico then lazily writes: The big question for Obama – and the country – is whether the sudden concern about deficits will be more rhetoric than reality once his first State of the Union address [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 9:00am EST
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• Next Up for the Obama Administration: Immigration Reform

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  Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says that security has been beefed up on our borders as well as an increase in workplace immigration enforcement reports The Los Angles Times. In her speech at the Center for American Progress, Napolitano hinted that immigration reform could be on its way in 2010. [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 7:53am EST
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• Some Real Terrorism News

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  U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that some of those allegedly responsible for the 9/11 attacks will be tried in federal – not military – court. “Today we announce a step forward in bringing those we believe were responsible for the 9/11 attacks and the attack on the USS Cole [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 12:30pm EST
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• Lavelle: Good News, Bad News

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  The good news: Republican State Representative Greg Lavelle will not throw his hat in for Mike Castle’s vacant Congressional seat, reports The Community News. “I recognize, and others in the GOP who are considering a run for the office must also recognize, that organizing a genuine and effective campaign, including the [...]
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:53am EST
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• New Castle County Democrats Won’t Rest On Laurels

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  New Castle County Democratic Party Chairman Erik Schramm spends a few minutes with The Community News‘ Jesse Chadderdon to talk about past successes of the New Castle County Democrats as well as their future plans. Take a few minutes to read this interview.  Schramm brings up the listening tour that [...]
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  Posted: November 12, 2009, 7:00am EST
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• Veterans Day

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  Number of comments: 9
  It’s strange that Veterans Day is called a holiday, it is more a day of honor. In this day and age, most of the veterans we know are men and women who voluntarily served this nation. One of the things I will be doing today is that when I see [...]
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 7:55am EST
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• Breaking: Pfeiffer Moving Up

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  Delaware native Dan Pfeiffer will be taking over as White House communication director later this month as Anita Dunn steps down reports The Fix. [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 12:52pm EST
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• Day 285 of Mike Castle’s Betrayal of Delaware

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  Last night Mike Castle continued illustrious career of representing the Republican Party and not the State of Delaware by voting against The Affordable Health Care for America Act. You can read his excuses at I ♥ GOP or read the shorter version here: “I was only following orders!” As a bonus, [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 8:00am EST
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• Day 284 of Mike Castle’s Betrayal of Delaware

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  Bet you thought I forgot. Today the House is voting on its version of Health Care Reform and it looks like Representative Mike Castle (Republican-Delaware) will be voting against it. Hey Mike, we’re wondering what it is like to be Boehner’s lackey? Cantor’s bitch? Enjoy your early retirement next January. [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 1:18pm EST
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• Double-digit Unemployment

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  Unemployment hit 10.2% in October which is painful for many especially those without college degrees as they have been hit the hardest. There is no solace for the unemployed in the following fact, but employment always lags behind economic growth. Here is an interesting chart supplied by The White House that [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 10:00am EST
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• GOP Gored by Climate Change Financial Gains

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  Let’s journey back a year and a few months to a time when Sen. John McCain did not recall the number of houses he and his wife had. And supporters of Obama talked about  families having one kitchen table and supporters of McCain said that Democrats just didn’t like financial [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:33am EST
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• Late Night Video: Going Rouge — The Movie

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  h/t Shannyn Moore [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 10:00pm EST
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• Plouffe on Daily Show Tonight

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  Delawarean David Plouffe, architect of Obama’s 2008 victory, will be the guest on John Stewart’s Daily Show tonight. [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 3:04pm EST
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• Rush Knows Something About Bestiality

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  I don’t know how many times we’ve declared that Rush has sunk  to new all-time low, but let me do it again. Rush Limbaugh on Dede Scozzafava, ex-Republican candidate for the 23rd Congressional District in New York: Scozzafava has screwed every RINO in the coun — we can say that she’s [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 7:32am EST
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• Palin-Envy

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  On the heels of Pandora’s Republican Woman post comes Fox “News” look at a little thing that says if you are critical of ex-governor Sarah Palin, you are just  envious of her success. Success of what? Quitting? [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 8:32am EST
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• Late Night Video: Ghosts in the Pool Room

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  Posted: October 31, 2009, 10:42pm EDT
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• Late Night Video: The Shining

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  What if The Shining were a feel good movie? [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 10:00pm EDT
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• Evening Read

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  No Phillies tonight, no problem. Three good articles to get those brain cells warmed up. The Nation: Why Reparations are good? It’s not what you think. The Daily Beast: The Left’s hero on Fox “News”: Shep Smith. Paul Krugman: Time to decide which side of history you are on. [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 8:01pm EDT
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• Breaking: Sen. Venables Injured in Boating Accident

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  According to The News Journal, Sen. Robert Venables (D-Laurel) along with another man was injured in a boating accident. Senate Assistant Bonnie Wood said Venables had a cut over his eye and sore ribs after the 11 a.m. crash near Ragged Point, about 10 miles west of Cambridge. [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 4:33pm EDT
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• The Dangers of Parsing Tuesday’s Elections

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  No matter how they are spun, rerun and overdone, the Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races are not national referenda. Even if the expected occurs — and Republican Bob McDonnell romps home in Virginia and New Jersey Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine wins a second term — it will be difficult [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 4:15pm EDT
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• Ethics Document Accidentally Released

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  A document from the US House Ethics Committee that details ongoing ethics investigations currently in play was inadvertently released reports The Washington Post. The 22-page “Committee on Standards Weekly Summary Report” gives brief summaries of ethics panel investigations of the conduct of 19 lawmakers and a few staff members. It also [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 4:09pm EDT
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• Mitch Daniels Unable to Grasp Climate Change

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  Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-IN) does not know the definition of agnostic. While out stumping Indiana about job creation, Daniels was asked about climate change reports The Herald Bulletin. “I’m an agnostic,” he said. In response to a question on his view of cap-and-trade legislation that would penalize carbon-dioxide-emitting power plants, he [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 1:00pm EDT
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• And The Winner Is . . .

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  . . . for the oddest speech on the House floor this year, Representative Steve LaTourette (R-OH). [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 12:30pm EDT
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• Fox “News” Is . . . Gasp . . . Conservative

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  A Pew Research Center finds that Fox “News” is viewed as the most ideological of the six television news channels. Forty-seven percent of Americans think that Fox “News” is conservative, while 36% of Americans think that MSNBC is liberal. What’s interesting with this poll is that Americans thoughts regarding the [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 11:00am EDT
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• QotD: A Touch Bookish

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  David Plouffe, Delawarean and mastermind of President Obama’s victory in 2008, has written a book, The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama’s Historic Victory. Failed Vice-Presidential candidate and chronic quitter Sarah Palin comes out with her story later this month, Going Rogue: An American Life. [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 8:34am EDT
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• Between Love and Madness Lies the New Castle County Council

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  Guidelines are now being created by the New Castle Country government that in time would allow businesses to advertise on county parkland reports The Community News. What types of ads, where the ads would go and what businesses the ads would be from are all part of the rules that [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 7:34am EDT
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• Late Night Video: Kayne Gets Bitched Slapped

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  Spike Jonze does what everyone wants to. [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 10:00pm EDT
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• McDowell To White House, Discusses Energy

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  Did you know that Delaware was pointed out as one of the most improved states in energy efficiency by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE)? Neither did I. Delaware moved up from 32nd in 2008 to 20th in 2009 in the ACEEE scorecard The 2009 report is ACEEE’s third [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 9:00am EDT
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• Delaware Budget Hearing Dates Announced

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  State officials have announced November hearing dates for the FY 2011 budget cycle reports The Community News. [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 8:30am EDT
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• Time To Lift The Cuban Embargo

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  It’s been 47 years since the embargo on Cuban goods was put in place by the United States and its been 18 years in a row that the United Nations General Assembly has called for the end of the US embargo. It seem back in April of this year that [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 8:00am EDT
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• Late Night Video: Get Motivated!

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  George W. Bush gets Stewart and Colbert motivated. [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 10:00pm EDT
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• A Casuality of the War on Drugs

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  Sens. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). are my new heroes. Kohl and Whitehouse are asking the Drug Enforcement Agency to scale back their enforcement of the Controlled Substance Act as it is "producing a troubling side effect by denying some hospice and elderly patients needed pain medication" reports [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 5:48pm EDT
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• US Chamber of Horrors

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  Delaware Liberal like facts and we like pretty pictures, consequently we love graphs. Daniel Gross at Slate did a fine piece on the failings of the US Chamber of Commerce: But there is a fundamental reason why the chamber isn’t being invited into the rooms where legislation and policy are being [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 3:42pm EDT
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• EBay to Abortion Rights Activists: No Auction For You!

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  EBay has stopped an auction to raise money for the legal defense fund Scott Roeder, the coward who alledgedly shot George Tiller in his church reports The Associated Press. An EBay spokesperson said, “Based on the details we know about the anticipated listings, we believe these would violate our policy [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 11:00am EDT
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• Jones-Potter to Run For State Treasurer

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  State Treasurer Velda Jones-Potter, appointed by Gov. Jack Markell, has thrown her hat into the race for State Treasurer reports The Dover Post. [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 9:50am EDT
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• Are You A Good White Person?

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  Number of comments: 15
  Fox “News” commissioned Zogby run a poll for them regarding free speech reports FAIR Blog. Here’s one of the questions: Federal Communications Commission Chief Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd wants the FCC to force good white people in positions of power in the broadcast industry to step down to make room for [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 8:30am EDT
  by nemski