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  • Comment Rescue: Kowalko Slams Copeland on Valero.

    Number of comments: 11
    This deserves its own post: From John Kowalko: Ladies and gentlemen, You have the advantage of witnessing the final morphing of Charlie Copeland into a Rick Jensen of the blogosphere. Charlie has taken no verifiable facts, added a dose of false accusations, sprinkled in some blame without regard to any sense of honesty, [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:48pm EST
    by Delaware Dem

  • Is Sen. Venables An “Honored Guest” At A Fundraiser for Colin Bonini?

    Number of comments: 8
    Now this pdf letter lacks and real official markings, but it is being circulated as an official invite. And now you are asking yourself why a Senator belonging to the Democratic caucus is an Honored Guest or a Sponsor or Host for a fundraiser for a Republican candidate for Treasurer, [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:58pm EST
    by cassandra_m

  • Friday Afternoon Bacon Blogging — Thanksgiving Bacon!

    Number of comments: 1
    Bacon-Wrapped Turkey with Pear Cider Gravy. Doesn't that sound good? I'm seriously rethinking my own Thanksgiving turkey preparation (fresh turkey, honey brine, stuffed with fresh herbs and roasted on the grill) for this one featuring bacon. [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:00pm EST
    by cassandra_m

  • Mindnumbing Quote of the Day

    Number of comments: 5
    "So what if Sarah Palin didn't write this book? Even God used early scribes to write the Bible," - Moe Lang, a commenter on Amazon.com.' [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:33pm EST
    by Delaware Dem

  • Valero

    Number of comments: 15
    Valero closed today due to capitalism in action. The owners of Valero were losing money in operating the plant because demand for gas was low. Thus, by closing the plant, they hope to squeeze supply so as to make gas prices rise. And when gas prices do rise, we hear [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:04pm EST
    by Delaware Dem

  • Friday Open Thread

    Number of comments: 15
    It’s Friday! It’s the day you’ve been waiting all week to arrive. Not only is it Friday but it’s also open thread time. It’s almost too much excitement! All I can say about this is that David Vitter should be target #1 for national Democrats in the Senate. This is absolutely [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:00pm EST
    by Unstable Isotope

  • McCain Vulnerable For Senate Re-election

    Number of comments: 1
    Just over one year ago, John McCain was the Republican nominee for president. Today he is vulnerable in his home state’s senate primary: Rasmussen Reports finds Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) clinging to a two-point lead over a possible challenger, former Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-Ariz.). Chris Simcox, the leader of the anti-illegal [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:00am EST
    by Unstable Isotope

  • Parents

    Number of comments: 15
    “Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne Cheney, welcomed their seventh grandchild, Sarah Lynne Cheney, Wednesday, November 18, 2009. She weighed 6 lbs., 14 oz and was born at 8:17 A.M. at Sibley Hospital in Washington, D.C. Her parents are the Cheney’s daughter Mary and her partner, Heather [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:29am EST
    by Delaware Dem

  • November Cattle Call

    Number of comments: 8
    The statewide fields are starting to take shape for 2010. [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:11am EST
    by Delaware Dem

  • An Assault On Traditional Divorce

    Number of comments: 4
    Social conservatives have been make dire predictions about how same sex marriage will ruin traditional marriage if it’s allowed. So, what’s happening in Massachusetts, where same sex marriage has been allowed for 5 years? Actually, the “experiment” has been running in Massachusetts for fully 1/2 decade now. Over three years ago [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:00am EST
    by Unstable Isotope

  • Moments of Rationality

    Number of comments: 6
    Coburn is shot down and Huckabee sounds downright respectful of the President. Is this a new trend of rationality on the part of the GOP, or is it just insincere political maneuvering. [...]
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    Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:24am EST
    by Delaware Dem

  • An End To An Era

    Number of comments: 5
    After 25 years, Oprah Winfrey is ending her talk show: This afternoon, Tim Bennett, president of Winfrey’s Harpo production house, announced that the media mogul will step off the “Oprah” set in September 2011. He said Winfrey will confirm the news on Friday’s edition of her show. “The Oprah Winfrey Show” will [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:38pm EST
    by Unstable Isotope

  • Scott Spencer’s “Silly” Altruism

    Number of comments: 15
    Scott Spencer, a Democratic candidate for the open Congressional seat, is donating 10% of his campaign fundraising to the Food Bank of Delaware, and he is challenging all other statewide candidates to do the same, whether it be to the Food Bank of Delaware or another charity of their choosing. [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:46pm EST
    by Delaware Dem

  • What a Wuss! Giuliani Decides Against Run for Guv

    Number of comments: 3
    Mr. Verb Noun 9-One-One has decided that the one thing he fears more than terrorists is–losing. The New York Times reports that Bernie Kerik’s best bud will not run for Governor.  Why?: It was not clear what prompted the decision, but the prospect of potentially facing Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo, who [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:49pm EST
    by El Somnambulo

  • Neoconservatives rail against Eritrean dictator Isaias Afewerki

    Number of comments: 1
    Hah, just kidding. Neocons don’t even know where Eritrea is. Afewerki announced in May 2008 that elections would be postponed for “three or four decades” or longer because they “polarize society.” All forms of media are controlled by the government. At least 10 local journalists remain in prison since their arrests [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:07pm EST
    by xstryker

  • Prison Health Care-Does Anyone Really Think This’ll Work?

    Number of comments: 10
    Delaware’s Department of Correction is under Federal court order to fix a broken prison health care system. The alleged wonders of privatization have once again been exposed for what they are–private profit at taxpayers’ (and consumers’) expense. The proposed solution? Break down the large failed bureaucracy into ten smaller bureaucracies, according [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:26pm EST
    by El Somnambulo

  • Which Religion Is This?

    Number of comments: 2
    I’m glad that Republicans are treating the health care debate with the seriousness that it deserves: Republicans have vowed to fight the legislation at every turn, saying it represents a dangerous expansion in the role of government that would increase taxes and insurance costs for millions of people. “It’s going to [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:00pm EST
    by Unstable Isotope

  • Thursday Open Thread

    Number of comments: 11
    It’s open thread time – time to talk about whatever you like. Feel free to drop links in the comments or just comment on the weather. Nothing is off-topic! Here’s something to talk about, Joe Biden talked to Jon Stewart on Tuesday. Part 1 The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:00pm EST
    by Unstable Isotope

  • Senate Health Care Reform Bill Unveiled

    Number of comments: 10
    Last night the Harry Reid unveiled the Senate health care reform bill, called The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The whole bill can be read here (warning PDF) and a 2-page summary can be read at this link (PDF). The CBO score for the bill was released yesterday, the bill [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:00am EST
    by Unstable Isotope

  • NY-23: Fighting The Forces Of Evil

    Number of comments: 15
    Everyone thought the drama of the NY-23 special election was over after Doug Hoffman conceded the race and Bill Owens was sworn in. Bill Owens even got to vote for health care reform. However, an election recanvass found that Hoffman’s votes were dramatically undercounted in one counting, cutting Owen’s lead [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:00am EST
    by Unstable Isotope

  • Texans Living In Sin?

    Number of comments: 7
    This is too funny. Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a Houston lawyer and Democratic candidate for attorney general, says that a 22-word clause in a 2005 constitutional amendment designed to ban gay marriages erroneously endangers the legal status of all marriages in the state. The amendment, approved by the Legislature and overwhelmingly ratified by [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:03pm EST
    by pandora

  • Could Someone Please Make Her Stop Talking?

    Number of comments: 8
    Sarah Palin is not only an idiot, she’s a dangerous idiot with absolutely no control, or thought, over what spews from her mouth. I believe that the Jewish settlements should be allowed to be expanded upon, because that population of Israel is, is going to grow. More and more Jewish people [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 3:32pm EST
    by pandora

  • Tom Carper’s Chief of Staff Now Lobbies for Wellpoint

    Number of comments: 15
    You read that right -- the nation's largest insurer has hired Tom Carper's ex-Chief of Staff as a lobbyist to campaign for their interests on the health care bill: [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:30pm EST
    by cassandra_m

  • Question of the Day

    Number of comments: 1
    How is it that it will take 'decades' for history to judge the success or failure of the Bush administration yet we know already that the Obama administration is a failure?"" [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:34pm EST
    by Delaware Dem

  • Wednesday Open Thread

    Number of comments: 15
    Is it only Wednesday? It already seems like this week has been too long. It’s open thread time, what’s catching your interest today? I found this amusing – progressive activists crashed an organizing phone for the Teaparty Movement and conservative bloggers. Personally I think the progressive activists are lying, Sarah Palin [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:00pm EST
    by Unstable Isotope

  • Sarah Palin Is Unfit To Be President Because…

    Number of comments: 11
    She’s incapable of representing all Americans. On Hannity last night, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said she’s “all for” profiling Muslims if it saves “innocent American lives.” I’m really sick of this sort of talk.  It’s beyond disgusting.  Frankly, it’s un-American – and I’m not one to use that term lightly.  It [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:00am EST
    by pandora

  • These Things Just Happen

    Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck had a conversation on O’Reilly’s radio show yesterday and predicted violence against Nancy Pelosi could occur. BECK: Last week, I head you say that — you were on with Dennis Miller. … You two were talking about an insurrection coming. O’REILLY: Tax revolt. BECK: He [...] [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 10:00am EST
    by Unstable Isotope

  • Scaredy Catservatives

    Number of comments: 11
    We Americans, at least in the conventional wisdom zeitgeist, imagine ourselves and our nation to be tough, courageous, and superior to all others. Yet, it would seem that the same people who shout "We're #1!" are the ones almost scared to death of trying or imprisoning terrorists on American soil.' [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:52am EST
    by Delaware Dem

  • This Week In Health Care Reform

    The CBO scoring for the Senate health care reform bill could come back as soon as today. Once the CBO weighs in, the debate on the bill can start in the Senate. Right now the schedule has the bill ready for a vote around Christmas. The Republicans have been promising [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:00am EST
    by Unstable Isotope

  • The Castle Conumdrum

    Number of comments: 10
    To win this election, Castle must now go negative, and he cannot if he wants to win the election. To win this election, Castle must be the moderate he has professed himself to be, and, for some reason, after all these years, he is acting like the conservative he is. [...]
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    Posted: November 17, 2009, 7:41am EST
    by Delaware Dem

  • Monday Night Quick Hits

    Number of comments: 1
    Back in the heady days of the Blogosphere, there came the invention of the Google Bomb. I am not sure the logistics or algorithms involved, but the more you typed in a key phrase along with a link to a legitimate website, the more that site would be the [...] [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:50pm EST
    by Delaware Dem

  • Biden Leads Castle In A Just-Released Poll

    Number of comments: 15
    Whoa, big news! All-but-announced Senate candidate Beau Biden leads Mike Castle in a new poll by 5%. This is bad news for Mike Castle: In a hypothetical match-up of the candidates, Democrat Beau Biden leads GOP challenger and Delaware Congressman Mike Castle by a margin of 45 to 40 percent; 8% [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 4:08pm EST
    by Unstable Isotope

  • People’s Settlement Final Report Released

    Number of comments: 15
    Today, Tom Wagner published the final report of his investigation into People's Settlement. The findings are as follows: They did not meet the standards of the Green Energy Savings Program Their accounting standards are inaccurate Questionable real estate transactions have been referred to the Attorney General Department of Education audit findings were not [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 2:52pm EST
    by liberalgeek

  • Monday Open Thread

    Number of comments: 15
    Happy Monday all! Can you believe it’s already open thread time? I know you’ve been waiting anxiously for one. Now this is funny. An activist speaks at an anti-immigration tea party against European immigration to the United States. It’s quite amusing because he doesn’t reveal all until the end of his [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:00pm EST
    by Unstable Isotope

  • Fear Not Wingnuts

    Number of comments: 15
    The latest crazy Republican talking point floating around concerns the decision of the Justice Department to try some high profile terrorism suspects in the federal courts in New York. Their concern is that the suspects could be acquitted (and there wouldn’t be any danger in that would there wingnuts if [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 10:16am EST
    by Unstable Isotope

  • Is This A Joke?

    Number of comments: 13
    I’m honestly not sure.  Given all the lunacy spewing out of Republican mouths this comment may not be just a throw-away. Host Chris Wallace pointed out that former Vice President Dick Cheney did not bow to the emperor when he visited Japan. (He did not elaborate on how this difference in [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:30am EST
    by pandora

  • Learning The Wrong Lesson

    Number of comments: 2
    Al Franken’s election was one of the pleasant surprises of the 2008 election. Franken is turning out to be an excellent senator. He’s already made an impact with his amendment that prohibits the Defense Department from contracts with companies that force rape and assault victims into arbitration – an instance [...]
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    Posted: November 16, 2009, 8:00am EST
    by Unstable Isotope

  • Hypocrisy and The Art of Judge Blocking

    Number of comments: 15
    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
    by nemski

  • Joe’s In Charge — Biden Style

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

  • Measure Twice, Cut Once

    Number of comments: 4
    It’s silly pundits day on Delaware Liberal! The last time we talked about David Broder, he was spewing incorrect information on Mike Castle and the Senate race. I think he should have stuck to less complicated subject like domestic politics but this week he turned his conventional wisdom insights to [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 12:00pm EST
    by Unstable Isotope

  • After The Deluge

    Number of comments: 15
    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
    by nemski

  • wRong Willams, Clue — Clue, wRong Williams

    Number of comments: 10
    Oh, this is rich. I was reading wRong Williams as I am wont to do on Sunday morning, it is sort of a penance for my sins. Today’s column is regarding Democratic Congressional candidate Scott Spencer.  Delaware Liberal recently met Scott and he seemed a nice enough bloke, though going up [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 9:59am EST
    by nemski

  • Death Panelling Goes For Cheap

    Number of comments: 8
    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
    by nemski

  • Weekend Foodie Thread

    Number of comments: 12
    Since last week’s Foodie Thread was such a big hit – can’t wait to try out all the recipes! – let’s give it another go.  This week’s theme is “meals in under 30 minutes.”  (And this week I have measurements!) I’ll begin with one of the easiest and most delicious recipes [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 9:00am EST
    by pandora

  • Where Did You Hear That Before?

    Number of comments: 2
    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
    by nemski

  • War – What Is It Good For?

    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
    by nemski

  • Biden To Appear on The Daily Show

    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
    by nemski

  • Weekend Open Thread

    Number of comments: 6
    It’s time for your open thread – thread away! Good. THE SUBJECT LINE on the e-mail simply reads, “The End.” As in, the end of the Valley Club, the small, sleepy Huntingdon Valley community pool that was thrust into the national spotlight this past summer, allegedly for discriminating against minority campers who’d signed [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 4:00pm EST
    by Unstable Isotope

  • ‘Bulo’s Music For the Masses-Johnny Mercer Edition-Volume 1

    Number of comments: 4
    The great lyricist Johnny Mercer would have celebrated his 100th birthday this Novermber 18 were he still around. I just saw a great documentary on Turner Classic Movies about him. It’s what inspired me to do this two-part Music for the Masses. Here are some reasons why you may want to [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 11:30am EST
    by El Somnambulo

  • Ted Kaufman, Rock Star?

    Number of comments: 5
    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
    by nemski
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