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PICKET: Presidential candidates pick and choose pledges
Political candidates are often sent numerous questionnaires from organizations, so grassroots activists involved in particular groups can gage where candidates stand on current issues. Some organizations, depending on their tax status, use questionnaires to figure out which candidate to endorse during a primary season. However, organizations like Americans for Tax Reform and the Susan B. Anthony List ask candidates to sign issue pledges.
New fees at D.C. DMV
New fees are scheduled to take effect at the District's Department of Motor Vehicles on Friday.
Obamacare is the Real Pornography
What do Obamacare, a hacker group and online pornography have in common? A White House email address.
You Say You Want a (Reagan) Revolution?
Was John Lennon secretly a Ronald Reagan fan? The very idea must suggest “the end of times” to peacenik idolaters of the late musician, but according to Mr. Lennon’s last personal assistant John Seaman, the former Beatle “made it very clear that if he were an American he would vote for Reagan.”
Glenn Beck’s Last Laugh
Liberals are cheering at the end of Glenn Beck's highly rated show on Fox News Channel, thinking it means his exit from the media stage. GBTV, they predict, will be a failure. But they mocked FNC when it started out in 1996, and look what happened. Mr. Beck may have the last laugh.
Georgetown's Big East opponents announced
Georgetown gets home-and-home series with Marquette, Providence and St. John's in the upcoming season, as part of the Big East men's basketball matchups announced today.
Hewitt reflects on Gary Williams' retirement
New Mason coach was conference colleagues with ex-Maryland boss for 11 years
Mason's Hewitt talks scheduling
Looking in on local and national scheduling for the Patriots
Washington Baseball: Runs R Not Us
Lots of days, the Nationals can’t score. It was the same for their D.C. predecessors.
Obama adviser: 'Of course' he owns the economy
After 2½ years in office, President Obama now "owns" the economy as an issue, according to top adviser David Plouffe, who added he was confident that voters understand that recovering from a devastating recession Mr. Obama inherited takes time.
Poll: In presidential matchup, Obama would beat Perry in Texas
A new poll out this week finds that in a head-to-head battle against Texas Gov. Rick Perry in the 2012 presidential election, President Obama would emerge victorious the Lone Star state.
PICKET: Obama goofs age of his 12-year old daughter
President Barack Obama may have thought he was relaying a tender moment at his news conference on Wednesday about his 12-year old daughter Malia, who he says accomplishes her homework ahead schedule, unlike lawmakers on the hill, but Politico pointed out the president goofed his own daughter's age.
Morning Roundup: June 30
McDonnell the pragmatist; D.C. online gambling is legal; ACLU inconsistent on petition objections; D.C. fire alters course; D.C. budget in flux (again); Liquor tax more than advertised; Grasmick's last day; D.C. drivers love cameras
Marshall protests gay pride flag to Bernanke
Virginia Delegate Robert G. Marshall is appealing to Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke in his efforts to get a rainbow flag removed from outside the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
PICKET: President Obama, Boeing is expanding not 're-locating'
President Barack Obama held a press conference at the White House on Wednesday afternoon and took questions from reporters who asked about a range of issues from the debt ceiling talks to Libya to the ATF controversy to the lawsuit the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) filed against Boeing recently.
Morning Roundup: June 29
McDonnell is popular; Wine ships to Maryland; Barry happy about Ward 8 development; Bike lanes 'on hold'; Fairfax officer fired; Man killed after taser incident
The many bonuses of VCU's Shaka Smart
The most interesting part of the contract Shaka Smart signed Monday with Virginia Commonwealth University may not be the $1.2 million he's scheduled to earn each year. Instead, it's the two pages of Addendum C, outlining 30 bonuses for the coach.
PICKET: Geithner debt ceiling date moved again?
It is being reported that the latest so-called drop dead debt ceiling date of August 2nd suggested by the U.S. Treasury will likely be moved yet again.
Graham questions handling of Caribbean Festival shooting suspect
D.C. Council member Jim Graham is questioning officials' efforts to supervise a 19-year-old man accused of gunning down an innocent bystander on Saturday near the Caribbean Festival parade route on Georgia Avenue and Gresham Place in Northwest.
Watchdog wants FBI to investigate House Dem
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to launch a criminal investigation of Rep. Laura Richardson regarding possible misuse of her staff.
