Archive for August 16th, 2009
What America Do The idiots want back?
We all know that many of the folks against health care seem to be saying that they want America Back. My questions is what America do they want back? Do they want the Vietname Era America Back? The Nixon America? The WWI and/or WWII America? The Great Depression? Any one of the dozen or so […]
How American Health Care Looks from Europe
This bit of embarrassment is from the Saturday Independent — and the accompanying article is worth a read too:
Wingnuts Gearing Up To Battle Mike Castle?
To the myopic abortion industrial complex on the right (that needs to keep birth control and safe sex information away from teens in order to protect their vacation homes and private jets), Mike Castle looks like a liberal. Here, for example is the “Jeremiah Films” blog take on Castle: http://www.jeremiahfilms.com/released/Congress/90702003 Tax and spend Republican Michael […]
Around The Horn Sunday
This was a slow week. With no special election relatively imminent (the next one is on September 12), and with national stories dominating our conversation this week, local stories fell by the wayside. Thus, I decided to introduce the Delaware Blogosphere to new or previously unknown (at least to me) members of our small state […]
Dick Armey Out of His Cushy Lobbying Job!
This is an interesting Friday afternoon news item: Dick Armey — lately infamous for his work promoting Freedomworks, the corporate-backed group astroturfing Town Halls this summer — has quit his lobbyist job at DLA Piper,claiming to want to work full-time on the Freedomworks thing.
QOD: What Happened To Pulp Culture?
I have not been checking in much, but Cormier’s summertime dispatches are supposed to be full of drunken semi-adult children exposing their new tats, like some kind of beer soaked 20-something version of the Delaware Today Magazine’s Party Pictures feature. What gives?
Read All About It in the Sunday Papers-August 16
LEAD STORY-The Financial Times: How the Oil Industry Plans to Do to Climate Change What the Insurance Companies Are Doing to Health Care…AND Who Its Delaware Connection Is! I. E., kill it: The American Petroleum Institute, which represents the US oil industry, has written to member companies asking them to “move aggressively” to stage up to 22 […]
Sunday Morning Open Thread
We haven’t had one of these in a while. Damnit, we keep saying we are going to have an open thread once a day, and by God, I am going to schedule 50 of them right now over the next week. Ok… coffee kicking in… calming down…. ahhhh. Cheers to Rep. Tom Kovach (R) for […]
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