Archive for April 26th, 2010

So What’s Next: Climate or Immigration?

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Well, today was supposed to be the first day of the rest of our lives, climate change legislationally-speaking. John Kerry, Joe Leiberman, and Lindsey Graham were set to publicly unveil their “tripartisan” climate change bill today, at least until Graham decided to walk away. Now, it has been indefinitely postponed. The reason for Graham’s defection […]

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Worst Iggles Draft Ever?

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Worst? No. Most disappointing? Quite possibly. The stars were aligned ideally for the Birds to restock and rearm without having to rebuild. 5 picks in the first 87 of the draft. In a deep draft, almost impossible to screw up. And the Iggles screwed it up. How? In trying to prove that they’re the smartest […]

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Monday Open Thread

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The Monday version of your daily open thread.

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City of Wilmington Mayoral Race Cattle Call — Spring 2010 Edition

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City of Wilmington Mayoral Race Cattle Call — Spring 2010 Edition

Adam Taylor of the News Journal does the work of rounding up the declared and the rumored, so I can do this without appearing to betray any confidences. This list fairly humorous, especially if looking a this field in its entirety. But many kudos to Adam for doing this and for having this story picked up everywhere — I first heard it this AM on WHYY.

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Bankrupting Arizona

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The new Jose Crow Arizona immigration law has a provision that allows citizens to sue if they think the law hasn’t been enforced vigorously enough.

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Charlie Copeland Thinks We Have No Memory.

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Charlie Copeland is once again claiming that help start the Challenge Program. Charlie Copeland must think that we have no memory of anything that transpired more than a year ago, and I don’t blame him, since time and again Republicans have invented their own new fantasy reality where President Obama is responsible for the entirety of the national debt, and where it was Obama that caused the financial collapse that occurred on Bush’s watch, and the Fox News audience have bought it, hook, line and sinker. The problem is, we do have memories. We have old blog posts to refer back to.

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A Team Of Moderates

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The NJ decides that Michelle Rollins is a moderate using their own magic formula.

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