You might have noticed that lately I have only been sporadically active on Delaware Watch. There is a reason for that. I am now employed teaching at a local college. My new duties consume all of my available spare time. Studying for lectures and grading papers (I teach 2 writing [...]
In the USA you can be employed and still be very poor:
The number of working Americans turning to free government food stamps has surged as their hours and wages erode, in a stark sign that the recession is inflicting pain on the employed as well as the newly [...]
They hemmed and hawed and hedged, but it seems that mostly the Obama administration is coming through on one of its campaign promises:
President Barack Obama said Friday that his administration will start releasing the names of people who visit the White House, reversing a long-standing policy transcending both [...]
Yea, trust the private sector all right:
Drug maker Pfizer Inc. will pay a record fine to settle a federal investigation into illegal marketing practices, as the Obama administration signaled its intent to curb fraud in government medical programs.
The Justice Department said Wednesday that Pfizer, [...]
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele penned an op-ed in the Washington Post on Monday accusing Democrats of looking to gut Medicare.
Five days later -- on the eve of a three-day [...]
If we use a scalpel instead of an ax in dissecting the poverty rate in the USA, we get a different but, sadly, grimmer picture:
The poverty rate among older Americans could be nearly twice as high as the traditional 10 percent level, according to a revision of a [...]
Where is the economic right-wing outrage for this violation of the "little guy?"
Low-wage workers are routinely denied proper overtime pay and are often paid less than the minimum wage, according to a new study based on a survey of workers in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago.
[...]
Capitalism: A Love Story will appear in movie theaters on October 2, 2009.
[...]We've had evocations of "death panels," government run "reeducation camps," "death books," (the standard) socialism, Nazism, (locally) fascism and so on. But now Rush Limbaugh has come up with a new bugbear about President Obama to incite hysteria about him: President Obama is a threat to American penises.
I should have saved the article about it, but the state of Delaware is paying private attorneys from two law firms a lot of money to represent the state in a lawsuit filed by the USA's major professional sports leagues and the NCAA. The plaintiffs want to stop the state [...]
Guess what happened to the CIA officer who threatened a terror suspect with a gun? He got a slap on the wrist. That's all.
A CIA officer who allegedly used a gun to intimidate a captured al-Qaeda suspect was formally disciplined for violating the agency's rules for conducting [...]
The contempt of the kooks, cranks, crackpots, red- and Nazi-baiters deserve to be met with contempt, the more condescending the better.
[...]If President Barack Obama won't stand up for the public option in health care reform, some liberal and progressive members of Congress will. They pledge not to vote for any health care reform that doesn't include the public option:
The White House's signal that it's willing to back off support [...]
Citizen advocate Richard Korn has announced his run for Delaware State Auditor. Presumably, his opponent will be the long-time incumbent Tom Wagner. (I am not certain if Wagner has yet announced his intention to run for State Auditor again.) Is President Barack Obama trying to have it both ways on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)?
President Obama made clear Monday that he favors the repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, and intends to ask Congress to repeal the 13-year-old law that denies benefits to domestic [...]
On Sunday, the American Chemical Society, [...]
Some seem to believe that once the right of free speech is established, nothing else interesting and significant can be said about speech...not even the personal moral responsibility to tell the truth. [...] There is excellent reason to believe that Delaware's federal lawmakers have gone yellow. They don't plan to hold any town hall meetings during August:
Constituents hoping to speak in person to Delaware's two U.S. senators about health care reform and other legislative issues may catch them at various gatherings' [...]
Saving homes with a 'right to rent' - Los Angeles Times
Cover via AmazonIt is natural for union members to be interested in health care reform. Inexpensive health care would strengthen the bargaining position of unions during contract negotiations and would make health care affordable for some of their members who otherwise don't get health care on their jobs. Accordingly, unions have an' [...]
Most Americans have heard "a little" (49%) about the birther allegations and by (non) partisan affiliation the numbers are as follows:Of those Americans who have heard a little, they say news organizations have
Ronald Reagan the presidential candidate promised that his supply side economics would raise incomes and help to reduce poverty. As Will Bunch shows in his work Tear Down this Myth: How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted our [...]
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