Delaware Political Blogwire

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• Hosting The Olympics: What Was Shocking-Enough Behavior For The Chinese Is Exponentially Worse When Perpetrated By The Canadians

  —Delaware Way

  Hosting the Olympics? Abusing the homeless and interrogating activists isn't just for the commie chinese anymore. It's being documented in Canada, fawgodsakes...
  
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 1:39pm EST
  

• Was Mike Castle's Vote To Audit The Fed A Second Chance Strategy For Purity?

  —Delaware Way

  The old Mike Castle would definately have voted to protect the financial industry and the Federal Reserve at all costs. Did his recent Paul-Grayson amendment YAY come in the context of the new GOP eligibility standards?
  Probably, but I'll take it anyway.
  Steve Singister ~
  [Castle] can' [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 1:01pm EST
  

• Black Friday Open Thread

  —DelawareLiberal.Net

  Number of comments: 12
  Today is Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year. How many of you braved the stores today? I’m happily ensconced on my couch today. I try to avoid shopping on Black Friday if I can, I don’t like the craziness. It’s your open thread so let’s get started. Here is [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:00pm EST
  by Unstable Isotope

• Skeptics: CBO's Health Care Reports Include "A Lot Of Blinking Yellow Lights"

  —Delaware Way

  McClatchy reports: Beltway's health care bills will not control costs ~
  
  Is it back to drawing board? Bernie Sanders has said as much. The Senate deliberations will have to strip out the bad and refigure the good.
  As the health care reform spotlight turns to the Senate, [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 10:57am EST
  

• Dutch Supreme Court: Goldman Sachs Guilty Of Insider Trading In World Online's Pre-IPO Offerings Suit

  —Delaware Way

  Dutch Supremes ruled today that Goldman Sachs screwed the IPO pooch in World Online suit ~
  

  The listing of World Online in March 2000 was the biggest Dutch Internet IPO at the time, valuing the company at 12 billion euros ($18 billion). The stock plunged after it became known [...]

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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 10:38am EST
  

• National Day of Listening

  —DelawareLiberal.Net

  I was going to post up something about the Black Friday madness (even picked out some music), but I heard something yesterday which I think is much more useful. [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 10:00am EST
  by cassandra_m

• New Rules May Bar Lobbyist From Advisory Boards

  —DelawareLiberal.Net

  Number of comments: 4
  I’m not sure why there hasn’t been more comment from the Obama administration on this: Hundreds, if not thousands, of lobbyists are likely to be ejected from federal advisory panels as part of a little-noticed initiative by the Obama administration to curb K Street’s influence in Washington, according to White House [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 10:00am EST
  by Unstable Isotope

• Clairvoyant

  —The Colossus of Rhodey

  Author Michael Crichton warned us about "Climategate" four years ago.... [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 9:53am EST
  by Hube

• Trouble In Paradise?

  —DelawareLiberal.Net

  Number of comments: 9
  Remember all that talk about a Palin/Beck ticket? Glenn Beck says it isn’t going to happen and he has really good reasons why it won’t happen: But just a few hours later on his radio show, Beck shot down the idea, saying he was “absolutely” ruling out a Palin-Beck ticket. He [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 9:12am EST
  by Unstable Isotope

• Why hate crimes legislation is a joke

  —The Colossus of Rhodey

  I understand and even agree with the legislation's rationale; however, the problem is that they are selectively enforced. Latest case in point: Denver police should be applauded for apparently breaking up a ring of thugs who were attacking mostly white... [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 9:06am EST
  by Hube

• NJ’s Ron Williams has good brain fart

  —Kilroy's delaware

  Refinery closing’s silver lining “Should Valero be allowed to sell off bits and pieces of all the pipes and stacks or do you force them — good luck on this one — to thoroughly clean up the gunk left behind after 52 years of refining some of the dirtiest crude oil [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 9:04am EST
  by kilroysdelaware

• VC vs. DE

  —Dave Burris

  The book “Start-Up Nation” by Dan Senor & Saul Singer focuses on “the story of Israel’s economic miracle,” touching on the geographical, military and cultural reasons for the rapid growth of the Israeli economy since the state’s founding. One of the chapters deals with Yozma, the Israeli plan for developing [...]

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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 4:19am EST
  by Dave

• Too Good for Their Own Taxes

  —DelawarePolitics.net

  

  By Justin Williams
  With the Bush tax cuts set to expire at the end of 2010 and both health care reform bills calling for increased tax revenue, the Obama Administration and Congress are about to saddle the American people one of the largest tax increases [...]

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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 1:28am EST
  by David Anderson

• Rough Sailing

  —kavips

  Those of you waking up and checking here first, expect a rough day in the financial world this morning…. Stability if obtained by mid day, could show profits in the later half as cash sops up stocks at bargain prices… If still free falling after 12:00, it will be ugly; [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 12:51am EST
  by kavips

• Happy happy!

  —The Colossus of Rhodey

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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 11:59pm EST
  by Hube

• Classic Thanksgiving Video Fare

  —DelawareLiberal.Net

  Number of comments: 2
  The WKRP in Cincinnati Turkey Drop episode for those of you looking for a small time killer as you recover from your turkey and gravy overdose. This is the very funny end of that episode: [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 6:00pm EST
  by cassandra_m

• NEW STANFORD REPORT FINDS SERIOUS QUALITY CHALLENGE IN NATIONAL CHARTER SCHOOL SECTOR

  —Transparent Christina

  Stanford, CA – A new report issued today by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University found that there is a wide variance in the quality of the nation’s several thousand charter schools with, in the aggregate, students in charter schools not faring as well as students in traditional [...]
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  Posted: November 26, 2009, 4:55pm EST
  by John Young