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Posted in Republican Party, Stuff on Apr 30th, 2009
The last two elections the far left masqueraded in Republican clothes while the GOP didn’t even leave the dressing room. The Democrats ran candidates claiming to be pro-business, pro-gun, pro-tax cuts, pro-life, pro-marriage, and pro-military. They claimed that the problem was that Republicans had grown into protecting their power base that they couldn’t perform on [...]
Posted in Antiwar Left on Apr 30th, 2009
Hotels for detainees, that will teach them not to attack our troops. Hopefully, they won’t be tortured by having cold breakfast brought to their rooms. Can we dump Holder now?
Posted in Delaware Democrats, Markell, Open Government, Spending, Taxes on Apr 30th, 2009
Governor Markell has been dealt a poor hand therefore I have made it point to give him a chance before being critical. The state has little money and huge short falls. His aggressive and expensive agenda has mostly taken a back seat to reality. How has the governor done so far? The Governor is trying [...]
Posted in National Dems, Obama, Taxes on Apr 29th, 2009
President Obama understood that cutting the tax burden for the working/middle class was an important part of his economic agenda. He also understood that it was a key part to building a political majority. Unfortunately, his Senate budget chairman seems bent on undermining it. On 25 March 2009 the chairman went about undermining the tax [...]
Posted in Conservatism, Delaware Blogs, National GOP, Republican Party on Apr 29th, 2009
h/t to Salt Lake Tribune via John Cole via Pandora* * – Once again, I present my service of bringing Delaware Liberal to those too scared to visit A snippet from the Salt Lake Tribune article, linked above: Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr.’s appearance at a Michigan county Republican Party event was scrapped this week after [...]
Posted in Obama on Apr 29th, 2009
How will I grade the President’s first 100 days tomorrow? The grade on the first 100 days has two parts, he did what he said he would do during the first 100 days minus the silly lobbyist stuff. I also ding him for not filling key positions in a timely manner. I give him an [...]
Posted in National GOP on Apr 29th, 2009
The 4 decade haunting of the GOP by Benedict Arlen is over. Specter had alienated the voters in the GOP primary to such a level that polls showed him 20 points behind after the next Senator from PA, Pat Toomey announced. Some critics claim that this is some evidence of GOP decline. That the GOP [...]
Posted in Alternative Fuel, Budget, Change, Deficit, Employment, Energy, Environment, Ethics, Global Warming, Military, National Dems, Obama, Oil, Open Government, Spending, unemployment on Apr 28th, 2009
$328,835 is the pricetag for the White House’s tragically stupid New York City photo-op according to the Air Force. Check it out: The flight by the VC-25, a modified Boeing Co. 747, and two F-16 fighter jets cost $328,835, Air Force spokeswoman Vicki Stein said. $328,835 for a picture at a time when many Americans [...]
Posted in Delaware Blogs, Quotes, Republican Party on Apr 28th, 2009
If you live under a rock, you may not have known that Mike Protack organized the Wilmington Tea Party. WOO HOO! Good for you…except that you’ve managed to tell many people on your own that you organized it. Usually, that’s spread word-of-mouth from other people, but hey, it was still a monumental task and planning [...]
Posted in Budget, Deficit, Delaware GOP, Spending, State Senate on Apr 27th, 2009
http://www.delawaresbadhabit.com is the link for a common sense approach for restructuring state government. Senator Colin Bonini points out that if we continued the DuPont Castle budgets the state government would have a 2.1 Billion dollar budget today and not well over 3.2 Billion dollars with a 750 million dollar short fall. We would have a [...]
Posted in Delaware Democrats, National Dems, National GOP, Republican Party on Apr 27th, 2009
Is it time to junk the Democratic and Republican labels and go with Progressive and Conservative labels, instead? After having some time for deep thought about politics this weekend (and wishing I could get through Nemski’s desire to bulk-label people, with prejudice, pun intended), I’ve come to the conclusion that progressives from each party have [...]
Posted in Environment, Global Warming, Stuff on Apr 24th, 2009
Al Gore is speaking to Congress today about cap and trade and the global warming amid accusations from a global warming skeptic that Gore “chickened out” and changed his mind about a joint testimony: According to Monckton, Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), Ranking Member on the Energy & Commerce Committee, had invited him to go head [...]
Posted in Stuff on Apr 24th, 2009
…as commented by a contributor… Yes, I am labeling The Republican Party as racists. You can keep on pretending otherwise, but that doesn’t change their modus operandi. One…I just don’t get the moral-OK with passing the highly-charged word “racist” around like it were candy on Halloween night. It runs the risk of diminishing the imapact [...]
Posted in Crime, Local Media, Radio on Apr 17th, 2009
I called in response to this question, but the window of opportunity is incredibly small, relative to the time it demands. It’s based on the State of Vermont considering “legalizing” the practice of sexting. What is sexting? As WDEL describes it, it is basically the practice of sending sexually-suggestive, or even pornographic images of one’s [...]
Posted in economy on Apr 15th, 2009
Many economists are predicting that we will start to emerge from the recession by September according to the Wall Street Journal. It may be time to buy selective stocks. Man the economy is turning around on Monetary policy before we even spend the stimulus. What gives. I thought we needed Mr. Obama to save us [...]
Posted in Stuff on Apr 14th, 2009
Do you believe in power to the people not the plutocracy? You have plenty of company. Attend a tea party to show your support for fiscal sanity. This event is non partisan. Of course I think that after you get educated you should make it count and be partisan for those who stand up for [...]
Do you want real answers to the economic turmoil? Financial expert Dave Ramsey is hosting a nationwide town hall on April 23rd. Go to http://www.townhallforhope.com For site locations follow the link. I have been to other Dave Ramsey events. They worth your time.
Posted in Stuff on Apr 12th, 2009
The rescue of the Captain today is an important event. It shows the strength of America in times of crisis. We also saw the importance of giving the President some leeway in his role as Commander in Chief. Some people wondered why he wasn’t talking to the press about this issue. It is because he [...]
Posted in Religion on Apr 12th, 2009
A certain news magazine (the name of which is not worthy of my mention) had a sensational cover declaring the Decline and fall of Christian America. As usual the secular left can’t understand the rest of America. It was timed to coincide with Holy Week while 70% of America is honoring Christ. It was typical [...]
Posted in No Politics, Religion on Apr 12th, 2009
How Great Thou Art Today is a special day for those of us who believe in the Living God who cares about humanity in a personal way and not some mystical “Sky Daddy”. That understanding informs all of life. His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI gave us a clarion call to escape the desert of godlessness [...]
Posted in Stuff on Apr 11th, 2009
Hillary told the truth – she loses the primary. McCain tells the truth – he loses the general. Obama tells you what you want to hear during the election and well…see for yourself.
Posted in Stuff on Apr 11th, 2009
Posted in Stuff on Apr 11th, 2009
The above title is from an article describing one of the biggest frustrations I have with debates in general and why I have been so apathetic as of late when it comes to blogging. Johann Hari writes – “There is one particular type of bad argument that has always existed, but it has now spread [...]
Posted in Alternative Fuel, Business, Environment, economy on Apr 8th, 2009
The GE plant in Newark that makes solar panels is laying off 85 employees: Rumsey said orders have been falling and inventory piling up as potential customers struggle to find financing for photovoltaic installations, which convert sunlight to electricity. “It’s unfortunate, but we have to align our manufacturing output with the demand that we have,” [...]
Posted in DNREC, Economics, Environment on Apr 8th, 2009
Pennsylvania is going to start dredging the Delaware River in September: After assessing reams of environmental studies, the Philadelphia district of the Army Corps said Monday it is ready to begin scooping out muck at the bottom of the channel to increase the depth from 40 to 45 feet. Now, this is something I consider [...]
Posted in Stuff on Apr 7th, 2009
Now that I’ve gotten the “I told you so” out of my system, I’d like to describe the two public hearings about expanding casino gambling that I attended. I went to the hearing last Wednesday in Dover. When I got there the place was packed. To me, the most interesting thing was the way The [...]
Posted in Stuff on Apr 7th, 2009
…it was taken off the table. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Governor Jack Markell’s shocking budget proposals…8% across the board pay cuts for state workers…and a spastic expansion of casino gambling. I called it “Fear Mongering And Loathing in Las Vegas Delaware” and I asked this question: …is all of this just [...]
Posted in Comment Rescue, Delaware Blogs, Jack Markell, Markell on Apr 1st, 2009
I am rescuing my own comment from Elbert’s “Elbert With an ‘E’” blog post. Linked above, pasted below: OK, it’s time to give up this outrage. The name given to this event was developed by bloggers (possibly DD, I believe), not Governor Markell or any of his staff. It was indeed a MISNOMER by calling [...]
Posted in National Dems, Obama, Reform, Taxes on Apr 1st, 2009
Governor Kathleen Sebelius made a mistake on her taxes. She deducted mortgage interest payments that she had to continue to make because her house was under water when she sold it. The other alleged mistakes where not mistakes. Some minor documentation was lost over the last 3 years including 3 letter from charities out of [...]
Posted in Stuff on Apr 1st, 2009
UPDATE: April Fools; these 10 principles are the 10 Planks of Marx’s Communist Manifesto. In these troubled time, we need to put aside our partisan differences and unite behind some simple principles which will better us as a people. These principles will give us hope and a blueprint for a better tomorrow. I call upon [...]
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