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House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs Out To Lunch
There is no wondering why bush is still in office when things like the following are reported. It seems that the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs can’t be bothered to pay attention to what is going on, they’d rather be elsewhere doing other things, to hell with…
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DNC Meeting In Washington DC - Florida & Micigan
*** Important *** DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee to Meet Saturday, May 31st WASHINGTON - The Democratic National Committee’s Rules & Bylaws Committee will meet on Saturday May 31, 2008 in Washington, DC. The Rules and Bylaws Committee will consider the two challenges that have been…
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Don’t call it Dodge City.
Photo of Ingraham & Georgia Ave. by AlbinoFlea used under a Creative Commons license. George Pelecanos, Drama City (Orion Press, 2005). Lorenzo Brown is the main figure in this novel, out of prison after eight years in on drug charges, and trying to stay clean and out of trouble. As an…
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Washington City Paper's
Maura Judkis on James Marshall (Dalek) at Irvine Contemporary Here. The "James Marshall (Dalek): Overweight" exhibition is on view from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, to Saturday, June 21, at Irvine Contemporary, 1412 14th St. NW. Free. (202) 332-8767.
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Screening of the Documentary “As We Forgive” Next Thursday in Washington DC
Over the last few years my friend Laura Waters Hinson has been working on a what I’m sure she’d know consider a labor of love. It’s her documentary As We Forgive. The documentary is about reconciliation that happens in Rwanda after the 1990 genocide. You really need to see this film. …
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mystery solved
Many years ago, I was on a visit to D.C. and stumbled across a wondrous, magical place. Looking for a place to have a drink on a weeknight, we found an ad in the free weekly paper for a drink special. I don't remember what it was, exactly, but it enticed us to walk a few blocks from DuPont Circle…
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The Audacity of Dopes: Oh, Geraldine Ferraro, Are You Ever Right?
Moe Tkacik called Geraldine Ferraro "the Bill Kristol of feminists" today. Why? Well, she seems to think a gesture made popular in a Jay-Z video was misogynist, for one thing. Also, she seems to think the Obama campaign has invented the campaign conference call and that they are evil with…
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dc media makers at npr: rsvp for June’s media mashup
Great news for DCMM & June’s meeting space: The ever fantastic HQ for National Public Radio has offered use of their conference room for our June media-makin’ meetup. Big thanks to Andy Carvin for making this happen (of note, Andy recently launched NPR’s Get My Vote online video…
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C-SPAN on the First Day?!?!
I started my internship in DC on Monday working for the Alliance for Health Reform, a non-profit organization that does congressional and press briefings on health reform topics. The first day on the job I experienced my first briefing on Capitol Hill, on the Massachusetts Health Care Plan. The…
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OLPC Learning Club May Meetup this Saturday
At a time when Nicholas Negroponte could use Iron Man (or even Fusion Man) to help get XO laptops to the children of the world, the OLPC community has its own summer blockbusters to consider with the departure of Walter Bender and the new alliance with Microsoft. Plus yesterday OLPC announced…
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A whole week!
Well, I’ve made it a whole week in this capitol city of ours! I’m doing most all of my work out of the house because it’s in the neighborhood I’m studying and because I have wireless here. Some nights the house can get kind of lonely; fortunately, my roommates are fun to hang out with…
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We have a house
A little late sorry, but we did choose a house. It’s 3 blocks away from our current house. Now the fun of moving 8 people out of the house, 6 people into another house, and settling the new house. Thankfully the new house is uninhabited, so although we can’t actually sleep there, we can…
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We’re Here…
Well, Katie and I made it to the Washington, D.C. area. After ten hours in the car, all we wanted to do was check in to our hotel, get some dinner and get to bed. The hotel is nice and we got to our room really quickly and decided to get dinner at the sports bar in the hotel. Little did we know…
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MS Walk 07
By Muslim Link Staff Muslims are getting more involved in civic activities to show their support for humanitarian causes. DC Area Muslim leaders, organizations, and youth believe their participation to improve the condition of their local community members is something that has been called upon…
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NATO Allies to Extend Command Lengths in Afghanistan
News in Balance: WASHINGTON, May 21, 2008 -- Two NATO allies have agreed to Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates’ request to extend their commands of Regional Command South from nine to 12 months, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said today. The Dutch will assume command from the Canadians…
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Mr. Coste goes to Washington… has lunch
Mr. Coste goes to Washington… has lunch Posted in Chris Coste, Washington with tags Carlos Ruiz, Chris Coste, D.C., Nationals, Philadelphia, Sen. Kent Conrad, Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr. on May 22, 2008 by jrfinger WASHINGTON - One of the neat things about this city is that sports really aren’t…
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Irony of Bush veto on Farm Bill
In a rapid rebuke of President Bush’s efforts for fiscal restraint, the House voted to override his veto today of a $307 billion farm bill and the Senate was poised to follow suit Thursday. Only hours before the House’s 316-108 vote, Bush had vetoed the five-year measure, saying it was an…
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Go Home Already: Good Fences
Photo by JeffreyBo >> A District car dealership on Bladensburg Rd. was shut down after it was declared an environmental danger. [WJLA] >> Five people are injured after an SUV slammed into a building in Northeast. [WTOP] >> Firefighters battled a massive house fire in Potomac this morning.…
U.S. Military Uncertain of China's Space Intentions
News in Balance: WASHINGTON, May 21, 2008 -- China’s lack of openness about its space program’s intentions has U.S. officials concerned, a senior military officer said here yesterday. Army Brig. Gen. Jeffrey C. Horne, deputy commander of the Joint Functional Component Command for Space,…
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Sad News For Downie
Washington Post Managing Editor Phil Bennett send out the following internal note, obtained by FishbowlDC, to staffers today: I am sad to report that Leonard Downie, Len's father, died today at his home in York, Pennsylvania, apparently of a heart attack. Mr. Downie was 89 years old. He was…
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Pela @ Rock and Roll Hotel
Some joyful men the likes of The Hold Steady's Craig Finn and Jens Lekman have graced D.C.’s stages over the past year, but all pale in comparison to the utter excitement exuded by Pela’s Bill McCarthy. Since their performance at DAM! Fest in October, Pela has had a rough couple of…
Today in Washington D. C. - May 21, 2008
On The Floor: . Following an hour of morning business, an hour will be set aside for tributes to Lyndon Johnson, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth. The Senate is then expected to resume consideration of the House message to accompany the war supplemental appropriations bill…
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Real Guantanamo Differs From Pop Culture Clichés
Bloggers' Roundtable: WASHINGTON, May 21, 2008 -- The commander of Joint Task Force Guantanamo believes two very different Guantanamos exist today. “There is the Guantanamo that exists in what I would call pop culture and the media and most people’s minds, and then there is the Guantanamo…
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Fort Reno Arsenic Results Show Safe Levels
Photo by stgermh Things continue to look up for the future of the Fort Reno Summer Concert Series, as well as for general safety concerns in the neighborhood surrounding Fort Reno Park. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released official soil sampling results today which confirmed…
Report from the DC Premiere
Film director Joshua Greene answers questions after the screening. Brahmi Romero, Joshua Greene, and Paul Orum (Chairman of the Yoga Center Board) IYTA member Christine Brahmi Romero, director of the St. Mark’s Yoga Center on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC., hosted a premiere on May …
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PodCast Info David Olofson
For those of you having problems reading this text, please place your cursor over the text and hold down the control key on your keyboard, (CTRL), and with the wheel of your mouse, roll the wheel towards yourself. This will increase the text size. Sometimes it takes me a while to figure out…
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Happy Hour
Ron Burgundy Interviews Tom Brokaw!! An FOD Exclusive! on FunnyOrDie.com New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media
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Shakespeare Free For All Features Hamlet
Sure, with Folger Theater, two Shakespeare Theaters, and Washington Shakespeare Company all alive and kicking in D.C. (not to mention Synetic's silent Shakespeare productions), it's not exactly hard to get your Bard fix in this city. But what do all those companies have in common? You have to…
Twenty Fish Survive Art Show Closure
Yesterday you read that the city shut down the "Here & Now" exhibition without giving artists the opportunity to retrieve their work before the doors were locked. One person out there was angry enough to pick up the phone—not to call the city or the gallery or the developer, but to…
BREAKING NEWS: SEC sues Washington Archdiocese's CFO for alleged fraud while at AOL
J. Michael Kelly, chief financial officer of the Archdiocese of Washington, is among eight former America Online executives who have been named in civil lawsuits filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with an alleged accounting scheme that inflated the company's reported…
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FBI Seeks Hippie Kids To Infiltrate Vegan GOP Protesters! [THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY LOOKS LIKE!]
Are you a dumb hippie kid in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area? Want to make a few dollars ratting out your crusty friends? The FBI, in conjunction with the University of Minnesota police department, will pay you an unspecified amount to infiltrate "Vegan Potlucks" in the Twin Cities and find out…
José Andrés Guest Judges Top Chef Tonight
Slowly, but surely, Chef José Andrés can now knock-off another television network from his list to appear on; this time Bravo. D.C.'s beloved Andrés will guest judge on tonight's episode of Top Chef, which will feature the fan-favorite "Restaurant Wars" contest, pitting two teams against…
Did Laura Richardson (D-CA) Abstain on the Mortgage Bailout Vote?
Laura Richardson is a California Congresswoman. She's also one of the many reasons the housing industry is collapsing. Congresswoman Richardson, you see, is one of those homeowners who got into a house with no money down and then walked away from her mortgage. From the Los Angeles Times: Capitol…
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2nd Annual Family Preservation Festival, August 15-17 2008, Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC
DCRally 2008, an unbrella group for the American Family Rights Association, and other like-minded pro-family groups will hold their second annual Family Preservation Festival August 15-17, 2008 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. You can read their press release for the event at the…
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Today's Most Popular Stories
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Tim McKyer NFL 3 time Super Bowl winner on Equal Parenting
Tim McKyer NFL 3 time Super Bowl winner on Equal Parenting
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Metal Prices going higher on Oil and Dollar Fears
Washington, D.C. (rightcommentary.com): Gold continues its climb above $900 per ounce, fueled by record oil prices and a weak U.S. dollar. Gold is currently trading around $927 per ounce, up approximately $5. According to an article in today’s MarketWatch, analyst Peter Grandich told his…
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"BOCA RATON, Fla. - Hillary Clinton compared ... [Clinton To Save America]
"BOCA RATON, Fla. - Hillary Clinton compared her effort to seat Florida and Michigan delegates to epic American struggles, including those to free the slaves and win the right to vote for blacks and women." [Ben Smith/Politico]