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Defensive end Joshua Jones leaves Navy football team
Senior was listed as starter on pre-spring depth chart
PICKET: Issa plans to grill Energy Sec. Chu over DOE waste
Congressman Darrell Issa, California Republican, told me he plans to grill Obama Energy Secretary Steven Chu, when Secretary Chu comes before Rep. Issa's committee today, House Oversight Government and Reform.
Limbaugh: Double standard on 'civility'
Depending on which news report you read, Rush Limbaugh has lost anywhere from a few dozen to more than a hundred advertisers since late February, when the radio talk show host called law student and contraception advocate Sandra Fluke a "slut."
U.S. condemns shootings in France
National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said the United States was deeply saddened to learn of the killing of four people in a shooting at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, on Monday morning.
Paul's fundraising drops from 2008
Ron Paul has improved on his 2008 GOP presidential run in nearly every measure this year. But one glaring exception is his fundraising, where the Texas representative is actually running slightly behind where he was at this point in the last campaign, according to newly released figures.
PICKET: Holder '95 anti-gun 'brainwash' remarks likely reaction to GOP '94 House win
Breitbart.com posted a C-SPAN2 video from 1995 of then-U.S. Attorney Eric Holder discussing a public campaign to ”really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way.”
PICKET: FDR pressed english on Puerto Ricans
Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum is taking lots of heat over his remarks regarding what language Puerto Ricans should be speaking. Politically the issue is a third rail that more than likely cost him a number of delegates from the island.
Santorum: How you treat the dog is an 'issue of character'
Late-night comedians have had a field day with the story of Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney strapping his dog in a crate atop the family station wagon for a 12-hour cross-country drive in 1983. Now it looks as if rival Republican Rick Santorum is getting in on the action.
PICKET: (video) Anita Dunn avoids questions on Fluke controversy
The Washington Times affiliated radio program America's Morning News spoke with former White House Communications Director Anita Dunn, who is now a managing Director at the Washington D.C. based PR firm SKD Knickerbocker, on Sunday.
Ex-Obama adviser Dunn has no comment on slurs against women on the right
The Washington Times-affiliated "America's Morning News" radio program caught up with Democratic public relations consultant Anita Dunn outside CNN early Sunday, but the former White House comminications director wasn't in the mood to take questions about Sandra Fluke.
Whittington emerges as key Hoyas cog
Freshman matched career-high with 30 minutes against Belmont
Voice behind the curtain settles Georgetown-N.C. State score
Teams met in 1989 NCAA regional semifinal
Georgetown-N.C. State to tip at 12:15 p.m. on Sunday
Round of 32 game gets early afternoon slot
Hoyas end NCAA drought, topple Belmont
Georgetown advances to round of 32 meeting with N.C. State
PICKET: (VIDEO) George Clooney arrested in Washington
Hollywood actor George Clooney was arrested in Washington on Friday in front of the Sudanese Embassy.
Pool-mageddon avoided — for now
The Justice Department on Thursday issued a 60-day stay of execution for hundreds of thousands of public pools which had been required to install ramps and wheelchair lifts by today or else face lawsuits over violating disability laws.
NCAA tournament notes: Virginia's new Nikes and Norfolk State's Kyle O'Quinn
OMAHA, Neb. -- The high-tops are bright orange. Neon bright. Eye-blinking, head-shaking bright, like some Kool-Aid flavor run wild. Bright enough to make orange hunting garb look downright drab in comparison. And three University of Virginia players -- Darion Atkins, Joe Harris and Sammy Zeglinski -- plan to wear their new orange Nike Zoom Hyperenforcers in Friday's second-round NCAA tournament game against Florida.
