Archive for October 17th, 2009
CNN Leaves It There
I am always in awe of how astute Jon Stewart and his writers are. This is an astonishingly good takedown of the entire cable culture — the focus on providing programming and information, bu not necessarily on providing any context (fact-checking, esp) for that information. Indulging themselves in the He Say/She Say without giving you any way of being able to evaluate that info.
Mr. Blumenauer Goes To Washington
The New York Times has a great little piece about Earl Blumenauer, a liberal congressman from Portland, Oregon. Blumenauer was one of the earliest supporters of Senator Obama’s bid for the Presidency and he is one of the strongest supporters of the public option. In the article Blumenauer talks about his upcoming vote on health […]
Fixing the Unfair Crack vs Cocaine Penalties
Senator Ted Kaufman is one of the co-sponsors of a bill introduced into the full Senate this week (it was voted out of the Judiciary Committee back in July) that would finally take on the incredible disparities in sentencing for those who are convicted of possession of either drug.
Saturday’s Open Thread
Cold and rainy Saturday. A great day to watch some college football from the comfort of you living room. Or maybe you would like to discuss some of the following: Delaware gets smacked by a nor’easter (link) Pakistan starts military action against Al-Queda and the Taliban (link) James Monroe biographer says that Obama should take […]
An Interesting Thought On The Practices Of Health Insurance Companies
Bob Cesca: “If the airlines were randomly dropping passengers out of airplanes at 30,000 feet, the airlines would be investigated, shut down or nationalized.” And, yet, isn’t this pretty much what health insurance companies are doing? Dropping people.
Nope on Hope
Shepard Fairey is a dumbass. Fairey created the iconic image of Obama with one word, HOPE across the bottom. Turns out he lied about fair use and falsely sued the Associated Press. Fairey’s unfair use of “fair use” will probably set back the rights of emerging artists many years and just strengthen corporations’ stranglehold on […]
Response to Andy Sere(al) Liar
I always knew that DL’s stuff was read by the Underground Wingnuts of the Rethuglican Party. However, it was not until Andy Sere of the RNC tried to twist my ‘completely objective and non-partisan’ look at the group of GOP would-be challengers into a diss of John Carney that I realized that (a) official GOP […]
Delaware Prepares for Implementation of “National ID”
Delaware readies to implement Real ID which is just another name for a National ID.
Hey Carper! We want a Public Option
Congratulations to Rebecca and Unstable Isotope for all their work with the state party. With great progressives like them involved in our party, we can hold the corporate shill Tom Carper accountable. From the Huffington Post: Yet another state Democratic Party has passed a resolution urging its congressional representatives in Washington to pass a public […]
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