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Go Home Already: Outside Looking In
Photo by sally henny penny >> It's always sunny at Walter Reed Army Medical Center: The personal information of about 1,000 patients may have been revealed in a breach of sensitive data. [AP via WTOP] >> National Zoo adorableness alert! A photographer captured a baby Tammar wallaby peaking…
Dick Cheney’s Incest Joke Incenses West Virginians!
In his best move as vice president since that time he shot an old man in the face with a shotgun, Dick Cheney joked about West Virginian hillbilly incest today at the National Press Club. And now everyone in West Virginia is pissed beyond belief at the vice president, whose long record of…
Ted Kennedy's Surgery Deemed a Success
First: Good news from Duke, where Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) underwent what his doctors are calling "successful" surgery today on a malignant brain tumor. While the initial announcement of Kennedy's condition and potential treatment a couple of weeks ago did not include surgery as a likely…
Chewing the Fat: Copper Fox Distillery's Rick Wasmund
Last week, we caught up with Rick Wasmund, CEO and Master Distiller at the Copper Fox Distillery in Sperryville, VA. Their Wasmund's Single-Malt Whisky is the only spirit of its kind in the world, and it was great to get inside the head of the guy who makes it. To meet the distiller in person,…
Is Our Hillary Going To Drop Out Or Not? Someone Find Out!
Can Obama do it? Can Hillary force herself to lose? Every reporter in the country is scanning e-mails, harassing sources, divining from “expense reports,” following travel schedules, monitoring clandestine superdelegate meetings, et cetera et cetera and so forth, to see what’s…
Today's Most Popular Stories
Washington Post: Experts: Surgery Painstaking, Delicate Washington Times: Texans say McClellan's turn started at home with mom Washington Examiner: Peter Schweizer: Conservatives more honest than liberals? N.Y. Times: Op-Ed Contributor: Put a Little Science in Your Life L.A. Times: …
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A World of Voices @ the Kennedy Center
Bobby McFerrinThe show opened with a couple dozen or so sprightly young women taking the stage, dressed in traditional eastern European folk garb. Their conductor, also in costume, raised his hands, signaled the opening downbeat, and out came the sound of serenity. Their voices blended into a…
Tale of the Email Tape: Clinton Wins Puerto Rico
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Meet The Last Great Hope For Ron Paul’s America
Here is young YouTube user “NsaneSk8er007,” who is wearing an Aeropostale shirt and listening to a U2 song, complaining about free speech being “long gone” while simultaneously denouncing the government in a public sphere. The key moment is when he says, “9/11. The…
Mythological ‘Whitey’ Tape Will Finally Ruin Obama
Hillary/McCain supporters of the “sofa in the yard” variety have long dreamed of a magical trick to destroy Barack Obama’s candidacy — something that would transform the “post-racial candidate” into, of course, that thing racist whites are always dreaming of:…
Crashing the Hillary Clinton Rally, I Mean, DNC Protests
When a friend emailed to invite me to cover this past weekend's DNC protests, I had blogger visions running through my head of life-size puppets, patchouli and lots and lots of yelling. Sadly, it seems like most of the good stuff happened inside the hotel, where the protesters weren't supposed…
Decorated War Veteran Bill Kristol Tackles Obama’s Hatred Of Soldiers
New York Times “lightning rod conservative” columnist Bill Kristol’s youth and young manhood was exactly this: Manhattan prep school, Harvard, more Harvard. Since then, he has devoted his career to sending other young people to die in catastrophic wars based on a false ideology…
Notes From Today's Gerald R. Ford Journalism Awards Ceremony
The Gerald R. Ford Journalism Awards ceremony was held today at the National Press Club. The annual awards honor reporting on the presidency and national defense. The Washington Post's Peter Baker -- a unanimous choice for his reporting on the presidency in George W. Bush's final year -- gave…
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McClellan Is Writing A What?!?
This is what happens when the 'g' and 'b' key are so close to each other... A screengrab from Friday's Washington Times RSS feed: New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media
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«Untitled»
GETTING HOPES UP IS A BAD IDEA: The rumors continue to “swirl” on the Internet about Hillary’s plans to wrap it up after tomorrow’s primaries. Apparently she and Obama will both be in New York City Wednesday. Will she endorse him? No, they will go to Queens and fight, with…
Bill Clinton Gets Sentimental On Last Day Of His Campaign
It appears that Bill Clinton’s latest run for president will be his last, despite rumors that he may run again in 2012. “I want to say also, that this may be the last day I’m ever involved in a campaign of this kind,” he said at a rally in South Dakota today. “I…
Weekly Music Agenda
MONDAY >> Happy first Monday in June! Anyone interested in playing "Two Degrees of Separation from Travis Morrison" would do well to attend Poor But Sexy's set at DC9. Poor But Sexy includes two current members of Travis Morrison Hellfighters (David Brown and Brandon Kalber) and former…
This Week's "Reliable Sources"
From CNN: HOWARD KURTZ, CNN HOST: Damage control. Obama quits his church after the cable networks led by Fox News keep replaying this video of another inflammatory sermon by another Chicago pastor. Truth teller or turncoat? Liberal pundits embrace Scott McClellan's Bush-bashing book while…
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This Week's Literary Events Calendar
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Finney: Come Sell Books At The DNC!
A funny scene from this weekend's "National Journal On Air" program: Host, Tammy Haddad: "There's one question left." DNC Communications Director Karen Finney: "O.K." Tammy Haddad: "Will Scott McClellan appear at the Committee meeting or will he be signing books in the lobby?" Karen…
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Washington Times: Redesigned
Earlier: "More Washington Times Tweaks" Here's a snapshot of the Washington Times' redesigned front page: New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media
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No More Kramer Photos In Senate ID Office
Back in the day you could wander into your friendly neighborhood Senate ID Office and while you were waiting for them to print up your card identifying you as Buttboy, Wizard-in-Chief, Senator Ted Stevens, or whatever, you could look at a gallery of sample ID cards all with the name and likeness…
Ted Kennedy Brain Surgery ‘Successful’
Edward Kennedy is reportedly still alive after more than three hours of brain surgery today at Duke University. The 76-year-old senator will still need all kinds of chemo and radiation and god knows what else, but it is pretty much impossible to kill Ted Kennedy. The AP reports: Kennedy surgeon…
Posties Get Their Pulitzers
Pulitzer prizes were handed out Thursday at Columbia University and Posties were all over the place: Anne Hull, Dana Priest, Michel duCille, Len Downie. Unknown but we're guessing important dude, Hull, Priest, Ducille, David Maraniss, Downie. Unknown but we're guessing…
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