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My Movie Pitch
I don’t know if you have seen the great documentary film, Super Size Me by Morgan Spurlock, but it is a perfect example of a genre of film and non-fiction where someone takes a simple concept to its extreme to examine the consequences. In the film, Spurlock decides to eat nothing but McDonald’s food for [...]
1Mar2011 | liberalgeek | 41 comments | Continued
Liberal Things To Do
If you have an open evening on Saturday, you may consider heading over to Theatre N for a screening of Inside Job at 8:30, followed by a Q&A session about the current state of Financial Regulation. One of the people that will participate in the discussion is Greg Wilson, Communications Director with the Delaware Community Reinvestment Action Council. Greg is a great resource for all things FinReg. If you can’t make Saturday night, there are other showings throughout the weekend, but the discussion after the Saturday showing promises to be interesting and enlightening.
24Feb2011 | liberalgeek | 12 comments | Continued
State of the Treasurer’s Office
Just over a month ago, Chip Flowers was sworn in at the Treasurer of the State of Delaware. Since that time, he has started fulfilling campaign promises. He has a way to go, but hey, it’s been a month.
One of his suggestions was a regular report of Delaware’s economic situation. The idea was to [...]
Liveblog the State of the Union Speech (Updated with Full Text of Speech)
Fill up your glass with your favorite adult beverage and join us for some hot and heavy liveblogging.
25Jan2011 | liberalgeek | 13 comments | Continued
Special Election Musings
Thursday is the special election to fill the New Castle County Council Presidency position that opened up as a result of Chris Coons’ victory in November. Tim Sheldon (D) and Tom Kovach (R) are the candidates. Their campaigns have picked up steam in the past week with accusations by Sheldon that Kovach hasn’t disclosed potential [...]
12Jan2011 | liberalgeek | 15 comments | Continued
Why This Tax Cut Deal Sucks
This was the hill to die on.
If you have any desire to cut the deficit, you don’t extend these cuts.
For months, Obama has fought off attacks from the right, saying that he has exploded the deficit. Of course, part of this is due to the current economic conditions and much of it has been inherited. [...]
John Shadegg Shouldn’t Drink and Talk
I saw Rep. John Shadegg(R-AZ) on Morning Joe on Tuesday morning. He made a complete fool of himself.
First, he says (and then doubles down), on his belief that unemployed people save their money, rather than spending it. Then he can’t get the gumption to criticize Sarah Palin as he evades a direct question over and [...]
Chris Coons Fumbles in His First Week
Our new Senator, Chris Coons, made his way onto a list today, and it isn’t the list of independent thinkers. Today, in a Judiciary Committee meeting, the committee voted unanimously to approve the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA). The act seems, at first blush, to be a good idea. The goal is to [...]
18Nov2010 | liberalgeek | 30 comments | Continued
Matt Denn on Veterans Day 2010
Here is the text of the speech delivered by Matt Denn on Veterans Day 2010 at the Delaware Memorial Bridge War Memorial. Thank you veterans.
11Nov2010 | liberalgeek | 56 comments | Continued
Unshiny Objects
We’ve had enough of the shiny objects that take our eyes off the ball of governing locally and statewide. Christine O’Donnell has had a house dropped on her, Sharon Angle has run away from the press for good and Charlie Crist is cleaning out his desk. I grant you that the Protack sockpuppetry and the [...]
8Nov2010 | liberalgeek | 9 comments | Continued
Almost Time for the DC Trip **UPDATED**
Saturday is almost upon us. We are currently waiting on the last minute confirmations from the bus company about the features of the specific bus that we will be using for the DC trip as well as a few details about the drop off/pick up locations in DC. In addition, I was just informed that [...]
29Oct2010 | liberalgeek | 62 comments | Continued
DL Interviews Chris Coons: Rhetoric and Freedom
In the final installment of our interview with Chris Coons, we ask Mr. Coons to tell us what he makes of the use of epithets like Nazi, Marxist, fascist and socialist as well as the treatment of the press by some campaigns across the country.
29Oct2010 | liberalgeek | 14 comments | Continued
Chris Coons on Stuff Besides Jobs
I asked Mr. Coons what issues he hasn’t gotten to talk about this year because of the time spent discussing the economy and jobs.
29Oct2010 | liberalgeek | 3 comments | Continued
DL interviews Chris Coons: Science!
In Part 2 of our interview with Chris Coons, Unstable Isotope asks Mr. Coons to talk about how he will use his background in science to inform his decisions in the Senate.
29Oct2010 | liberalgeek | 4 comments | Continued
DL Interviews Chris Coons – Money and Politics
Unstable Isotope and I got a chance to interview Chris Coons on Thursday afternoon. I will post these over the next day or so.
The first episode is two questions, one about the impact that the huge budget of Christine O’Donnell has had on his campaign. The second question was about Mr. Coons’ thoughts on reforming [...]
Get a Brain Moran
Well O’Donnell thug and journeyman political loser, Matt Moran is back in the news. This time he is at the center of the O’Donnell-WDEL video lawsuit. Make sure you watch the video. You can clearly see Christine prompting Matt to do his job as a pitbull. It’s disgusting.
O’Donnell’s campaign manager, Matt Moran, called WDEL and [...]
Heathcare Warrior, Arm Thyself
Do you remember all of the breathless claims of Republicans and Tea Partiers talking about their “Canadian friend” that hates the Canadian healthcare system and came to the US for a really important surgery? Yeah, as you may have guessed, it is probably bogus. Last week, I heard a radio interview with the author of [...]
16Oct2010 | liberalgeek | 11 comments | Continued
O’Donnell’s Pants Are On Fire
Remember last night when she claimed that Chris Coons has spent $5,300 on a “Men’s Fashion Show”? Talking Points Memo has gotten to the bottom of the claim. Guess what, it’s a lie.
But just like her “Man-pants” and “I never said that Mike Castle is gay” there is an implication about Chris Coons sexuality. What [...]
Her Masters Voice
Celia Cohen is doing it again.
Apparently her masters, many conveniently located in the sponsorship section of her blog, are done with Chip Flowers. So when they need a political hit-man, Celia takes the job. Why not, she has taken out Richard Korn in the past. Chip is just another upstart that has made some powerful enemies in his rise through Delaware politics. And we all know that Celia doesn’t take kindly to people that make enemies with her Delaware Way friends.
12Oct2010 | liberalgeek | 68 comments | Continued
Guest Post From Mark Brunswick: What Chris Bullock Doesn’t Say
Reverend Christopher Bullock has an interesting opinion article on African-Americans and the November elections in the News Journal today. Here’s the link, http://www.delawareonline.com/comments/article/20101011/OPINION07/10110313/African-Americans-increasingly-disillusioned-with-political-process. I agree with most of what he says but I think there’s more.
12Oct2010 | liberalgeek | 14 comments | Continued
Tickets Go Quick at UD
I went to stand in line to get tickets to the Coons – O’Donnell debate at UD this morning. When I arrived at 9:30 (tickets “sales” started at 10) there was already a line of 40 or 50 people. Some had folding chairs and had been there for hours.
In line, some people felt free to [...]
Sadly, This Guy May Be You
Christine O’Donnell has inspired millions with her first commercial. Here is one of those people.
7Oct2010 | liberalgeek | 2 comments | Continued
Ginger Gibson Moving On
We knew that after the national media got a look at Ginger Gibson, she wouldn’t be long for this one-horse town. We got a tip that she has accepted a position with the Newark (pronounced new-irk) Star-Ledger in New Jersey. This is a shame for Delaware, as she was one of the good reporters over [...]
7Oct2010 | liberalgeek | 6 comments | Continued
Josh Schoenberg is Raking It In
A month ago, Josh Schoenberg threw his hat in the ring to challenge Republican House incumbent Greg Lavelle. In that short period of time, Josh has had exactly zero fundraisers. Instead, he has been calling people and asking for their support by day, and knocking on doors by night. Today, he posted his 30-Day campaign [...]
6Oct2010 | liberalgeek | 4 comments | Continued
Get On The Bus: DL Goes To Washington
Delaware Liberal has secured a bus to go to Washington DC on October 30th to attend the Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert rallies. Tickets are available here for $35 per person.
We will leave from the Shipyard Shops in Wilmington at 8AM and return at 10PM with a rollicking good time in between. Seating is limited [...]
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