Archive for March 3rd, 2011
Elizabeth Warren on the Assault on Middle Class Families
As always, right on target. And she discusses how the new Consumer Protection Agency does not add to the deficit, showing how silly the repubs are being on this issue.
Vote for Tommywonk
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The Economic Benefits of Renewable Energy in Delaware
According to Delmarva Power, shifting from coal to renewable energy will save Delawareans $1.8 billion to $4.3 billion in health and environmental costs. The savings won’t appear on your power bill, but your medical bills. Environmental advocate and finance geek Tom Noyes runs the numbers for you.
Q. How Do We Get Out of Afghanistan?
A. Land a bunch of helicopters, fill them up with our soldiers and take off.
In the meantime, this…more mistakes, screw ups and deaths.
Wisconsin Dems Set Up Offices With A View
Via TPM: Access to the state Capitol building in Wisconsin has now been heavily restricted, so some Democrats are providing a solution to members of the public who can’t get to assembly members’ offices: They’re bringing their offices to them. “Obviously there was a court order to open this building and anybody with a brain […]
Shared Sacrifice, My Ass
I tried. I really tried. I tried to understand and even rationalize Gov. Jack Markell’s argument that any additional taxation of the wealthy would work against his efforts to create jobs in Delaware. He made this argument in a meeting with Delaware bloggers a couple of weeks ago. He said, and I’m paraphrasing, that ‘these […]
Anti-Abortion Publicity Stunt Fails
A publicity stunt arranged by an anti-abortion group failed when an ultrasound failed to detect a heartbeat in a 9-week-old fetus.
Comment Rescue: Delaware Exceptionalism
I don’t buy this Kavips comment. I think that there is something here, but I also think that Delaware’s exceptionalism can be better explained by a less Rube-Goldbergian sequence of events. A remnant of Eisenhower Republicans remain here in Delaware and they still regard themselves as human beings first and conservatives second. That’s the simple explanation. We are not the Swiss. We are not a blogging Athens, to the rest of the county’s Fox News Sparta.
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