Will Delaware Republicans ever stop posturing? Apparently not. Even in the face of a deficit exceeding three-quarters of a billion dollars, they can’t ditch their old habits...
Many listeners seem confused by why I would devote two consecutive shows to the interrogation/torture controversy. Simple: I think this potentially is our most serious Constitutional crisis since Watergate...
I will not make any claim that liberals are more likely to challenge their own elected officials than conservatives, because I’ve been on the air for 3 ½ years and I’ve seen more evidence of the opposite (illustrated by the several regular callers who insist I respect the differences between conservatives and Republicans)...
Nate Silver at fivethirtyeight.com has a smart post on tax policy, noting that our current bracket structure, which flattens out at the ridiculously low level of $250,000, is a historical anomaly...
Which among Jack Markell’s proposals is likely to get through the General Assembly, and which will legislators toss aside? Here’s a quick rundown, with my thoughts on how likely each is to make it into law...
With Michael Steele’s groveling apology this week, the Republican Party suddenly has realized it has a Rush Limbaugh problem.
Contrary to what conservative caller Kevin claimed on Monday’s show, Limbaugh’s favorability ratings are bad news for any party intent on winning over new voters...
With Michael Steele’s groveling apology this week, the Republican Party suddenly has realized it has a Rush Limbaugh problem.
Contrary to what conservative caller Kevin claimed on Monday’s show, Limbaugh’s favorability ratings are bad news for any party intent on winning over new voters...
State Sen. Cathy Cloutier was interviewed for Tuesday's noon news by Allan Loudell, who tried to pin her down on a line from her Friday press release:
"Passage of SB 245 [the eminent domain bill] in its present form would have eliminated jobs for some of my constituents...
A press release from State Sen. Cathy Cloutier, explaining her vote to uphold Gov. Minner's veto of the eminent domain bill, SB 245, including this cryptic line:
"Passage of SB 245 in its present form would have eliminated jobs for some of my constituents...
For those who missed it, Barbara Grogg, president of the Delaware State Teachers Association (DSEA), was scheduled to appear on my show first thing Monday morning...
The attack on charter schools by the Delaware State Education Association, which came to light in recent months when the union opposed conduit bond funding -- a no-cost, no-risk bureaucratic maneuver -- that could have saved the Delaware Military Academy over $100,000 a year...
...you can take solace in the fact that the oil companies are taking even their own franchisees for suckers. This Washington Post story from Sunday (5/25) makes me feel sorry for the poor schmoes who pinned their hopes for running a business on what these vultures left them...
Barack Obama supporters are under fire from two directions -- Hillary Clinton supporters and Republicans. McCainiacs seem to think that polls taken in May are irrefutable evidence their guy will trounce Obama; Clinton supporters concentrate on Obama's problems in traditional swing states Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania...
President Bush revealed in an interview yesterday that he has given up golfing because we're at war. At last! Something common Americans can do to show real support for the troops! I call on every American to give up golf for the duration! You can dust off your clubs in a mere 95 more years...
Kudos to Aaron Nathans at The News Journal for spotlighting Harris McDowell's shenanigans with the Sustainable Energy Utility. It laid out the details economically, and ended with three paragraphs that should end all pretense by Republicans that Senate Minority Leader Charlie Copeland isn't in lockstep with McDowell:
---Copeland said the SEU concept is a good one, and environmentalists should put aside their differences with McDowell and embrace it...
Listening to Barack Obama's "angry" denunciation of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright yesterday, I started to understand why he fails to connect with some people...
An unexpected decision capped an active day in Dover -- Our Leaders concluded that an 8% cut in education budgets would traumatize the state's schools, possibly for years, so they mandated a more manageable 3% instead...
Norman Oliver no longer holds a seat on Wilmington's City Council, but he hasn't lost his knack for controversial statements. During an interview with Allan Loudell for today's Noon News, Stormin' Norman declared that the National Guard should be called out to restore law and order to the streets of Wilmington...
Jason Scott over at Delaware Liberal has an excellent post on Harris McDowell and what might lie behind his opposition to the Bluewater Wind project. In short, it's more about power than money...
When Barack Obama made his now-infamous "bitter" comments, I thought he had once again spoken a truth nobody wanted to hear.
Turns out that his analysis, while it might play to the prejudices of us liberal elites, doesn't stand up well to scrutiny...
Mike Matthews over at DownWithAbsolutes.com asked for audio of my interview Monday with Elizabeth Maron, daughter of Democratic Party chairman John Daniello and co-author of House Bill 177, the so-called "fusion" bill that would have restricted candidates to one political party on the ballot, ending candidacies such as those of Frank Infante, Karen Hartley-Nagle and Tyler Nixon...
For all the discussion that led up to Brandywine School District's referendum, I was still unaware that senior citizens (65 and older) -- always a group disinclined to support higher taxes -- can get a 50% rebate on property taxes (up to $500) for schools simply by applying for one...
When a school district can't convince the public to vote in favor of higher taxes, it usually makes its case by citing the services that will have to be cut instead...
Check out the podcast page for my analysis of this morning's interview with Delmarva spokeswoman Merrie Street. Delmarva honcho Gary Stockbridge stepped in a big pile of PR doody when he said he wouldn't negotiate with any new power generating company unless forced to by law, and Ms...
All the on-line chatter about Wayne Smith's resignation seems to center on who will replace him as House Majority Leader. What hasn't been addressed so far is the effect his resignation will have on the Delaware Republican Party -- Smith was the major exception to an increasing polarization of Republicans into upstate-moderate and downstate-conservative camps...
Kudos to Mitt Romney, R-Carpetbag, for landing the first low blow of the 2008 presidential campaign! As this story chronicles, an aide for Romney, who called himself "effectively pro-choice" as recently as 2002, attacked the consistently pro-life front-runner, John McCain, saying "he still doesn't get it on what to do" to end legalized abortion...
A disagreement broke out on the show between Liz Allen and Jeff the ex-marine over this story:
http://www.wpxi.com/news/11002564/detail.html
The gist of it is that the armed services are discharging some soldiers for having "personality disorders," apparently without doing full psychiatric work-ups on them...
The latest step -- and a big one -- in the makeover of Wilmington's riverfront from a misguided stab at a tourist destination to a new residential neighborhood (albeit an upscale one) is the announcement of a new shopping center, anchored by a supermarket, on the southern, residential shore of the Christina...
Sure enough, Beau Biden's appointment of former judge and AG Rich Gebelein as his chief assistant has stumped the experts. But rather than simply acknowledge that he can't figure out what it means, Ron Williams wrote an incoherent mess of a column -- I think it was supposed to be funny -- to cover up that fact...
That's the most obvious question in the wake of Thursday morning's shocking announcement by Attorney General-elect Beau Biden. Maybe Beau's National Guard JAG duty accomplished more than just burnishing his resume, if that's how these two met...
I finally got my wish: an independent poll on the Delaware attorney general’s race. The results of the Fairleigh-Dickinson University poll show why the race has been so personal and negative – Ferris Wharton and Beau Biden are running well within the margin of error...
Is U.S. District Court Judge John Fullam a dotard, or just a jerk? He was up to his usual tricks Tuesday in setting a Feb. 5 trial date for Sherry Freebery and Janet Smith, making wisecracks nobody found funny and criticizing the government's case...
The Fairleigh-Dickinson University poll on the Carper-Ting Senate race confirmed what everybody already knows – it won’t be close. And I won’t be the only one who’s shocked if Mike Castle doesn’t easily win the race for U...
