Archive for February, 2011
A Modest Alternative To Demonizing State Workers
Is it inevitable that greedy teachers, selfish game wardens and effete bus drivers will crush our state budget with their unreasonable demands to be paid a living wage? Perhaps not. An alternative would be to raise the state income tax on the wealthiest Delawareans by 2%. In a failed attempt to not sound like a strident hippy, I meekly hinted at this as a possible option during our recent meeting with Governor Markell.
18Feb2011 | jason330 | 30 comments | Continued
Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others… he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
I’m quite optimistic about this Wisconsin thing catching on. New Jersey and Ohio seem to be likely candidates.
17Feb2011 | jason330 | 9 comments | Continued
Thursday Open Thread
The Thursday edition of your semi-daily open thread.
17Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 27 comments | Continued
How Not To Talk About Rape
We haven’t really talked about the case of Lara Logan, the CBS foreign correspondent who was separated from her crew in Egypt and then sexually assaulted. It’s been depressing watching it play out, not only because of the depressing nature of the crime, but also because people are cruel. Echidne of the Snakes has [...]
17Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 19 comments | Continued
Texas Tidbits
Gail Collins has a wonderful piece in today’s New York Times that rightly slams Texas and its governor, Rick Perry, about education and abstinence.
17Feb2011 | nemski | 9 comments | Continued
Repeal The Job-Killing Speaker Of The House
John Boehner on Tuesday: “Since President Obama has taken office the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs, and if some of those jobs are lost in this, so be it.”
17Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 10 comments | Continued
We all spend most of our lives at work, so why not make workplaces nicer?
There is a business case for better workplaces. As some guy once said, “Employee satisfaction is the only real, durable source of customer satisfaction.”
16Feb2011 | jason330 | 2 comments | Continued
Thousands Rally To Protest Their Despotic Dictator
Where can you find this crowd of an estimated 50,000 people?
16Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 9 comments | Continued
Wednesday Open Thread
The Wednesday edition of your semi-daily open thread.
16Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 41 comments | Continued
Marriage Equality vs. Civil Unions
Yesterday in a meeting with bloggers, Governor Markell stated that he supported Civil Unions for Delaware but hadn’t thought about full marriage equality.
16Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 35 comments | Continued
Did Chris Coons Catch Budget-Cutting Fever?
Has Chris Coons caught deficit-cutting fever?
16Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 9 comments | Continued
Another BushCo Iraq War Lie — Mobile Bioweapons Labs Edition
It is completely amazing to me that the British press is still working to figure out how we got duped into the Iraq war. Part of this, of course, is that there have been multiple official inquiries that have been revealing the timelines, the decisions taken and the ways that the world was suckered [...]
15Feb2011 | cassandra_m | 1 comment | Continued
On Jack Markell
A number of Delaware’s bloggers were invited to a Governor’s Roundtable with Governor Markell this morning at his offices in Wilmington, so that the Governor can respond to recent progressive criticism and address his budget priorities. It was a very interesting discussion.
15Feb2011 | Delaware Dem | 79 comments | Continued
Tuesday Open Thread
The Tuesday edition of your semi-daily open thread.
15Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 5 comments | Continued
Academic Freedom And The Limits Of Free Speech
A law professor at Widener University is accused of making violent, racist and threatening speech in the classroom. The professor believes he’s being targeted because he is a conservative.
15Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 12 comments | Continued
Valentine’s Day Open Thread
The Valentine’s Day edition of your semi-daily open thread.
14Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 16 comments | Continued
Who Will Protect Us From The Green Menace?
Fox News warns us about the dangers of cute little girls bearing sweets.
14Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 5 comments | Continued
Good Morning Delaware – February 14, 2011
Your local news round up from up and down the state.
14Feb2011 | Delaware Dem | 14 comments | Continued
Really, I Have No Idea Why People Make Fun Of Libertarians
Ron Paul knocked ‘em dead at CPAC with another brilliant idea – let young people opt out of government.
14Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 20 comments | Continued
CPAC Insanity
Grover Norquist is married to a Muslim and is therefor spearheading “campaigns within the conservative establishment on behalf of the Muslim Brotherhood.” That’s the theory. According to Frank Gaffney.
13Feb2011 | jason330 | 9 comments | Continued
Shirley Sherrod To Sue Andrew Breitbart
Andrew Breitbart got served with legal papers by Shirley Sherrod at the CPAC conference.
13Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 49 comments | Continued
More Polling Goodness
President Obama won nine red and purple states in 2008 in addition to the 19 typically blue states that John Kerry, Al Gore and Bill Clinton carried for the last 20 years. According to PPP, President Obama would win them all again, in some cases by even larger margins.
13Feb2011 | Delaware Dem | 20 comments | Continued
The Party of Lincoln No More
With a party filled with Southerners, Tea Partiers and States Rights Advocates, can the Republican Party consider itself the Party of Lincoln?
13Feb2011 | nemski | 5 comments | ContinuedSocial Media
