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Posted in Stuff on Mar 31st, 2009
NY Congressional District 20 (special election). Looks like absentee ballot time. D 77,344 R 77,279 We are truly a divided nation and there isn’t a party out there that can claim otherwise. BTW, Chairman Steele gets the credit for this, doesn’t matter what anybody else says. He identified this as his top priority. Good job!
Posted in Delaware Blogs, Markell on Mar 31st, 2009
…and I was late. Pictures from the event (after the jump, but please look them over):
Posted in Budget, Change, Conservatism, Delaware Blogs, Election 2008 - Delaware, Jack Markell, Open Government, Reform, economy on Mar 31st, 2009
Governor Jack Markell held a “roundtable” in Newark this morning with “Delaware Bloggers.” Strangely missing from the “roundtable” were bloggers from Sussex County, the majority all of Kent County, and any blogger anywhere in Delaware that even slightly smacked of conservatism.
Posted in Stuff on Mar 30th, 2009
Posted in Regulation, economy on Mar 27th, 2009
Have you heard the the tall tale told by the left that we have economic issues because of tax cuts and deregulation? People in the know say that this recession was as much caused by wrong headed regulation as anything else. The mark to market rules are exacerbated a normal healthy correction and caused a [...]
Posted in Crime on Mar 27th, 2009
The police can’t protect you like you can protect yourself. Home invasions have been increasing dramatically in this state. One homeowner was able to take one of these home invaders out of action and protect the homeowner’s family because that homeowner exercised the right to self defense. Keeping and bearing arms by law abiding citizens [...]
Posted in Social Conservatives, State Senate on Mar 26th, 2009
There are two bills stirring some measure of controversy in the General Assembly right now. One shouldn’t be controversial at all, Senate Bill 27 which is the Marriage Protection Act. The other is House Bill 5 which is the non discrimination based on Sexual Orientation. Both bills seem to be on the fast track for [...]
Posted in Satire on Mar 26th, 2009
Enjoy… Stan learns the importance of saving money: Stan learns how the Treasury Department works:
Posted in Budget, Change, Delaware Democrats, Education, Election 2008 - Delaware, Jack Markell, Liberalism, Open Government, Spending, economy on Mar 25th, 2009
Fear Mongering And Loathing In Las Vegas Delaware Once upon a time, I worked for a wise candidate who told me that when budget cuts are on the horizon, an administration will threaten teachers’ jobs or pay to scare and anger the masses. That way, when a teacher’s 8% pay cut ends up being a [...]
Delaware Rules and that’s a fact. You have to love New Jersey crying foul over not having the ability to participate in sports betting, when in fact had the opportunity to, at the time The Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) was passed. Specifically – “Consequently, the sports lotteries conducted in Oregon and Delaware [...]
Posted in Social Conservatives on Mar 23rd, 2009
UPDATE: Marriage Protection Act wins support in committee. Victory in Phase 1. Phase 2 Thursday. All right thinking individuals are invited to Legislative Hall at 1 pm Thursday for a rally. I supported the current law in Delaware which clarified that marriages recognized in our state are exclusively between a man and a woman. Now [...]
Posted in National GOP on Mar 22nd, 2009
Republicans (RNC) are outraising the Democrats (DNC) in spite of being out of power. The RNC raised nearly 2 million more than the Democrats. The Democrats should close the gap because they have a sitting President. The RNC has been benefiting from a full time chairman who works more than one day a week. The [...]
Posted in Deficit on Mar 21st, 2009
Trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see is an unsustainable proposition. The CBO said the really bad news that the administration plans to run 7 trillion dollar deficits is worse. The projected deficit is 9.3 trillion dollars over the next 10 years with the highest non-war deficit to GDP (national production) ever. [...]
Posted in Liberal Media on Mar 20th, 2009
When public officials are in trouble for corruption, if the party label is hard to find, they are likely to be Democrats. There is a Clay County Kentucky vote stealing scandal orchestrated by evil Democrats. Yet the MSNBC version doesn’t even mention their party. They had no such problem with Republican Ted Stevens at the [...]
Posted in Satire on Mar 20th, 2009
After President Barack Obama’s unenlightened crack on the Tonight Show about his bowling game being “like Special Olympics or something,” and the President’s subsequent apology, Special Olympian bowlers have released a statement: After we learned of the President’s gaffe, and later of his heartfelt apology, we felt the need to offer the President an apology [...]
Posted in Budget, Business, Delaware Democrats, Development, Jack Markell, New Castle County Council, Spending, Sports, Waste, economy on Mar 20th, 2009
Three new casinos for Delaware? That’s our new Governor’s vision for our beloved state. Think about it…Delaware is 96 miles long…3 new casinos will give us a casino every 16 miles! Oh yeah, and apparently we might need sports betting (even though professional sports is opposed to it), and table games, too. Well, I have [...]
Critics who do nothing but whine and complain bash the President for going on the Leno show. If they want to complain, it should be that the President does not get tougher questions than Leno’s from the regular media. What about the potential dumping of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency? It is rumored [...]
Posted in economy on Mar 19th, 2009
The federal reserve is printing money and monetarizing the debt. It is a smart way to get money circulating into the economy and keep the recent huge government deficits from eating up all of the private capital or forcing up interest rates. The problem is that it devalues the dollar and if not pulled back [...]
Posted in Stuff on Mar 19th, 2009
Picking basketball games on ESPN and going on Jay Leno tonight (first sitting President ever). That’s all I have to say.
Posted in National GOP on Mar 18th, 2009
The GOP has taken the lead in the Generic ballot for the first time in a few years. Something is going right for the GOP. Democrats are arguing about who the GOP leader is, but at this rate it won’t matter because they will be following the leader. It is way too early to get [...]
Posted in Conservatism, Economics, Foreign Policy, Revolutionary Reform, Social Conservatives, Taxes on Mar 18th, 2009
Warning: What you are about to read is not PC. It could result in exploding suppositions. Yes, there are pants of panic from a new UN study which says that the global population will soar to 9 billion by 2050. I say great. That’s more people we can teach the Gospel to. (I had to [...]
Posted in Stuff on Mar 18th, 2009
Yesterday, El Som put up a post about SB27, a marriage-protection act over on Delaware Liberal. Interestingly enough, on a side note, Rep John Atkins, the very one that Rep Schwarzkopf propped and elevated himself this past cycle is a co-sponsor of this bill. Interesting in that Rep Atkins is a staunch opponent of one [...]
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Posted in Stuff on Mar 18th, 2009
“Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., won passage of a provision earlier this year that they said would have prevented the type of payments now at the center of a storm. It was dropped without explanation in the final compromise on the economic stimulus measure, replaced by a less restrictive set of conditions [...]
Posted in Business, Change, Earmarks, Earmarxists, Economics, Liberalism, National Dems, National GOP, Revolutionary Reform, economy on Mar 18th, 2009
…Congress warned AIG execs to return their millions in bonuses – or face a possible new law taxing those payouts at up to 100%. “They should voluntarily return them. If they don’t, we plan to tax virtually all of it,” New York Sen. Chuck Schumer declared on the Senate floor. The idea that our government [...]
Posted in Stuff on Mar 18th, 2009
EDITORIAL: Guns on a plane – Obama secretly ends program that let pilots carry guns “Now President Obama is quietly ending the federal firearms program, risking public safety on airlines in the name of an anti-gun ideology. Only anti-gun extremists and terrorist recruits are worried about armed pilots. So why is the Obama administration catering [...]
Posted in Change, DNREC, Economics, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Jack Markell, Minner Failures, NRG, Stuff, economy on Mar 17th, 2009
Governor Jack Markell has announced that a Californian named Collin O’Mara is his pick to head up the train wreck known as DNREC. O’Mara is described by the Markell Administration as a “climate prosperity leader” and a “climate prosperity expert.” Well, I had no idea what the heck either of those things were, so I [...]
Kevin Spence at The Cape Gazette is reporting that Susex County is going to get some omnibus spending money for the 3rd try at a new Indian River Inlet Bridge: Indian River Inlet Bridge $1,900,000 to design and construct a new bridge along Route 1 over the Indian River Inlet. The new structure will completely [...]
Posted in National GOP, Republican Party on Mar 17th, 2009
Words I never thought I’d say: “David Frum nails it.” The newest edition of Newsweek has an article from David Frum that addresses the “we or them” attitude coming from a certain contingent of the Republican Party. To my satisfaction (it’s no secret), he also takes on the argument of why Rush Limbaugh is not good [...]
Posted in Delaware GOP, National GOP, Republican Party on Mar 17th, 2009
Alternate Titles: I Blame Maria, You All Can Blame Me Maria is Dangerous, Heed Her Words or Hide A Brick Smacked My Head, it Had Initials M.E. On It Maria Kicked My Dog; Not Really, But It Sure Seemed Like It For the more serious: Why Now and Not Before? Apparently, I’m NOT Alone Within [...]
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