Archive for August 25th, 2009
Late Night Video: The Birthers Make A Movie
Dave Weigel at The Washington Independent discovered that World Nut Daily has made a birther movie. For the low, low price of $17.99 you can own a copy of “A Question of Eligibility.” On Aug. 4, President Obama’s birthday, WorldNetDaily released and began shipping “A Question of Eligibility.” It’s an hour-long documentary produced by an […]
Live Blogging Carper Tele-Town Hall
Going to try this, not sure I can stay on but will do what I can: First time he ever did this. We are all experts on health care because we all use it. 3 statements — true or false? us spends more money on care than other countries does not get better outcomes 14k […]
UPDATE — Comment Rescue: Open Questions on Ramifications of Sports Betting
This is from RSmitty, who inexplicably wasn’t going to comment today:
Sports gambling in DE aside, this really has me burning. How did an injunction hearing before a panel of three circuit court judges suddenly turn into a legal decision on the entire case, that was supposed to be heard later? I obviously don’t have a legal background, so how in the hell did that happen? […]
Tom Carper Tele-Town Hall Tonite
Senator Carper is apparently holding a telephone Town Hall tonite — there was a message waiting for me on my phone last night providing a heads up that they would call. And we had a tip from one of our contributors that he had gotten the same call.
Senator Kaufman Live Chat at the NJ TODAY
Senator Kaufman will be taking questions via live chat at the NJ at 3:30 TODAY.
Torture Still Doesn’t Work
What a surprise – the declassified document that Cheney says proves the effectiveness of the “enhanced interrogation techniques” (and the rest of the world calls torture) doesn’t prove Cheney’s point at all. Spencer Ackerman gives some examples: Those documents were obtained today by The Washington Independent and are available here. Strikingly, they provide little evidence […]
The Summer Of Our Discontent
You’re going to have to color me confused by all the attention given to the Senate Finance Committee and the “Gang of Six” that supposedly hold the future of health insurance reform in their hands. Why is there all this emphasis on this particular committee’s bill? Four of the five committees working on the bills […]
Is Beck Going Belly Up?
While Delaware Liberal was supposedly imploding last week, real news was occurring as Glenn Beck was losing advertisers faster than Republicans lose voters. What’s all the hubbub about? Beck was on one of the Fox News TV chat shows and he called the President a “rasict”. I know, I know, this doesn’t surprise you as […]
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