Archive for April 13th, 2010

My Interview With Karen Weldin Stewart Post-Hearing

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I ask KWS about the resignation of her controller yesterday.  I also ask about contractors v. state employees.  I probably shouldn’t have helped her find the answers, but let me know what you think. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWFqoJXlukw[/youtube]

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Live Video of the KWS Hearing

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This may or may not work, but hopefully there will be a live stream of the hearing for Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart. My fingers are crossed…

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Tuesday Open Thread

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Hello gloomy Tuesday! What would lift your gloom? How about an open thread? David Gregory thinks fact-checking is for the little people: Critics say that kind of truth telling rarely happens on television. But David Gregory, the moderator of “Meet the Press” on NBC, said that accountability is “in the DNA” of his program. He […]

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Now the Tea Partiers Want Their Own Army

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I’m sorry, but no good can come of this. From the great conservative state of Oklahoma, site of the largest domestic terrorist attack in US history, we get this story about a Tea Party umbrella group that is looking to form an official, state-approved militia. The scariest part is that this is not just some crazy […]

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KWS Pre-Game Show

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This afternoon is the hearing in Dover about the Insurance Commissioner’s job performance. The hearing is supposed to cover the denial of coverage for stress tests for Delaware residents and the Captive Insurance Bureau but I imagine a lot of issues will arise in the hearing. I know that our very own liberalgeek plans on […]

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Military Tea Party

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What could possibly go wrong with this? A new Tea Party group, Armed Forces Tea Party Patriots, has grown quickly since being launched last month by an active duty Marine Corps sergeant. The group, which vows to “stand up on the very soil we defended to preserve common sense conservatism and defend our Constitution that […]

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Another Tea Party Racist

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Another Tea Party Racist

Carl Paladino is a prominent Republican developer in Buffalo, New York. He’s a member of the Tea Party and has decided to run for governor. From Paladino’s own website: Mr. Paladino, 63, delivered a Palinesque populist message to a boisterous group of about 1,000 flag-waving supporters here, denouncing what he said was the government’s deepening […]

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