Archive for February, 2011
Markell & Democrats Propose New Gun Control Laws
In many places across this country, Republicans are dismantling gun control legislation so that more criminals and terrorists, as well as the mentally ill, can have unlimited and unrestrained access to as many weapons they can buy, so that they can kill as many people as they want. But not in Delaware.
9Feb2011 | Delaware Dem | 36 comments | Continued
Wednesday Open Thread
The Wednesday edition of your semi-daily open thread.
9Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 3 comments | Continued
This Week’s Sign of the Apocalypse
There is now an iPhone application that, for $1.99, offers an “express lane” for confessing your sins. With password-protected profiles, the app also offers users the option to “choose from seven acts of contrition as well as add sins not listed in the standard examination of conscience.”
9Feb2011 | Delaware Dem | 1 comment | Continued
Supporting the Constitution
it is not hard to see which party is more for the Constitution and which is more against it. 26 Republicans out of 242 in the House voted for the Constitution, or in percentage terms, 11%. 89% of the Republican Party have just told you their constitution posturing was just that… posturing. Meanwhile, 65% of the Democrats voted for protecting civil liberties.
9Feb2011 | Delaware Dem | 1 comment | Continued
A Traitor’s Flag
The recent censorship of a painting reveals a lot of truth.
9Feb2011 | Delaware Dem | 24 comments | Continued
Good Morning Delaware – February 9, 2011
A new feature I am starting, because, while we cover local and national politics, sometimes the local news gets lost in the mix.
9Feb2011 | Delaware Dem | 41 comments | Continued
Plurality of Delaware Supports Marriage Equality
A poll conducted by Public Policy Polling found that 48% of Delawareans favor marriage equality, with 47% opposed (31% strongly opposed) and 5% undecided.
9Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 6 comments | Continued
PATRIOT Act Reauthorization Fails House Vote
The PATRIOT Act renewal was blocked in the House. Twenty-six Reoublicans (including 8 GOP freshman) voted against reauthorization.
8Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 3 comments | Continued
Holy Bleep! The Two Stephens, Sondheim & Colbert, Together At Last!
How cool is this? My all-time favorite composer, Stephen Sondheim, is gonna have a NYC revival of his groundbreaking musical, Company, featuring Neil Patrick Harris, Patti LuPone and…Stephen Colbert!
“Company” was the first Broadway show I ever saw on Broadway, in 1972. I was just blown away and have been a lifelong Sondheim fan ever since.
Colbert [...]
Bring It.
Before she sleeps in a cot in a federal prison for the next decade, Christine O’Donnell proposes to investigate me and my colleagues at Delaware Liberal and other groups that she believes are “funded with one million dollars or more from billionaire leftist George Soros.” Unlike Ms. O’Donnell, I and my colleagues have not received untold millions from ideological benefactors.
8Feb2011 | Delaware Dem | 19 comments | Continued
Tuesday Open Thread
The Tuesday edition of your semi-daily open thread.
8Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 1 comment | Continued
Olbermann’s New Gig
Keith Olbermann and Current TV have announced that Keith Olbermann is joining and will have a primetime show on the channel.
Keith Olbermann announced on Tuesday that he will host a one-hour, nightly primetime show on Current TV starting in late spring. He will also become the “chief news officer” for Current.
In a conference call with [...]
The Markell Budget: Comfort the Comfortable, Afflict the Afflicted
As the Joint Finance Committee peels back more layers of this rancid budgetary onion, we see the priorities of this administration, and what we see is an ostensibly progressive administration time and time again comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted.
8Feb2011 | El Somnambulo | 23 comments | Continued
Politco Acknowledges That The Left’s Media Criticism Is Right
Politico admits that the Left’s media criticism has been correct all along. The media isn’t liberal, it practices high Broderism.
8Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 5 comments | Continued
Open Thread to Talk About What a Bunch of Frauds Libertarians Are
I’ll start. There are no Libertarians. There are just Republicans who are slightly more embarrassed than other Republicans to be in the Party of Glenn Beck.
7Feb2011 | jason330 | 9 comments | Continued
Too Little, Too Late
Bill Kristol tries to throw Glenn Beck and his nutty Egyptian caliphate theories under the bus.
7Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 9 comments | Continued
Monday Open Thread
The Monday edition of your semi-daily open thread.
7Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 1 comment | Continued
The O’Reilly Obama Interview
Before last night’s Superbowl, Bill O’Reilly did a ridiculous interview with President Obama.
7Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 11 comments | Continued
AOL To Buy The Huffington Post
AOL has announced the acquisition of the Huffington Post for a reported $315M. Arianna Huffington will become the editor-in-chief of the new entity.
7Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 6 comments | Continued
Superbowl Open Thread
It’s time for the once-a-year event called the Superbowl. Use this thread to trash talk, cheer and jeer and give reviews of the commercials. Also, go Packers!
6Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 24 comments | Continued
The Reagan Mythology
Will Bunch tears down some myths about Reagan and Mike Stark leaves Rush Limbaugh sputtering.
6Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 33 comments | Continued
Weekend Open Thread
The weekend edition of your semi-daily open thread.
5Feb2011 | Unstable Isotope | 8 comments | Continued
How the World Sees Us
…at least via our right wingnut crazies.
This hit my mailbox ALOT over the past few days, and I cringed every time I saw it: Middle East unrest according to Glenn Beck and friends. The Guardian rounds up a the crazy, the stupid and the dangerous of the Wingnut-o-Sphere, and you should go over there to see it all.
5Feb2011 | cassandra_m | 2 comments | Continued
A New Front is Opened in the GOP’s War on Reason, Common Sense and (yes I am going there) Democracy
It is hard to wrap your head around what the GOP is thinking when it comes ot waging war on Planned Parenthood, until you accept the reality that Republicans don’t care about anything other than making headlines and fucking shit up.
5Feb2011 | jason330 | 22 comments | Continued
Plug
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Extravagant Relevance: Defying Gender
It is going to punch your bourgeois, lite beer drinking, paradigm in the balls.
4Feb2011 | jason330 | 9 comments | ContinuedSocial Media
