“District of Columbia” on The Daily Caller

A couple weeks ago, House Member Eleanor Holmes Norton made a fundraising call to a lobbyist. The lobbyist wasn’t available, so Holmes Norton left a voicemail. (more)

Let me divulge a few things before I begin.  I’m an atheist.  I lean slightly to the left politically.  And I really don’t like Glenn Beck. (more)

A civil rights activist and former congressman equated the Tea Party with the Ku Klux Klan today as he blasted a conservative rally planned in Washington, D.C., this weekend. (more)

The harm to military religious liberty posed by the possible dismantling of the so-called “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy is only recently starting to get the kind of attention it needs.  If the military is forced to normalize homosexual conduct, service members’ religious beliefs that such conduct is immoral and harmful will likely be a casualty of the political push to radically alter military personnel policy.  This likelihood is demonstrated by the nationwide assaults on religious belief in the civilian world and by new evidence from an active-duty chaplain that is being revealed for the first time here. (more)

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Convicted DC snipers Lee Boyd Malvo and John Allen Muhammad were supposed to have had help carrying out their deadly attacks, and they may have been involved in more shootings than authorities suspected, according to an interview with actor William Shatner that airs Thursday. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — D.C.’s public school system will fire more than 200 employees for poor performance — 4% of its work force — and is putting another 700 employees on notice they will be fired in the next year if their performance doesn’t improve, the school system announced Friday. (more)

It’s that time of year when postcards from traveling friends and family arrive in our mailbox with pretty pictures of beaches and mountains and captions like “Land of a thousand lakes” or “We do everything big in Texas” under the photo of a giant cowboy. On the back of the card usually a few scribbled thoughts like “Wish you here.” (more)

Multiple sclerosis patients can get prescription pot to ease their painful muscle spasms—if they live in Great Britain, where regulators recently approved a mouth spray made from cannabis, or marijuana. GW Pharmaceuticals, which developed Sativex and is preparing for advanced clinical trials to test its ability to relieve pain for cancer patients, wants to bring it to the United States. (more)

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed without comment a ruling upholding a ban on so-called soft-money contributions to political parties. (more)

The Second Amendment succinctly and plainly states “the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” However, some state and local governments, such as Chicago, have implemented burdensome restrictions that prevent individuals from exercising this most basic right. The Supreme Court’s ruling on McDonald v. Chicago is more than a victory for gun rights activists; it is a victory for all Americans as the Supreme Court protects our God-given, constitutionally protected rights. (more)

Dear Maureen: (more)

Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia are backing the family of fallen Marine Matthew Snyder in a pending U.S. Supreme Court case that could decide the constitutionality of laws restricting protests at private family funerals. (more)

Drivers with District of Columbia licenses rank among the least knowledgeable about the rules of the road in the nation, according to a study by GMAC Insurance. (more)

High school students and college-age adults had complained to the District officials that the free condoms the city offers are not of good enough quality and are too small, and that getting them from school nurses “was just like asking grandma or auntie.” (more)

Since 2005, the Federal Communications Commission classified broadband Internet access as an “information service,” and effectively deregulated it; your phone company via DSL, your wireless provider via whatever generation of network speed that it offered, and your cable provider via cable modems, could offer access without regulation as a telecommunications service provider under what is known as “Title II” of the Communications Act. Instead, the FCC declared it would regulate only as necessary under its Title I “ancillary authority.” In a Policy Statement the FCC espoused principles of good sportsmanship it would expect of market participants. (more)

As the Kagan memos slowly begin to flutter out of the Clinton Library — despite the protests of Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy — liberals and conservatives alike are finding things to dislike about the Supreme Court nominee. (more)

Sen. Byron Dorgan, Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, has been waging a lonely battle to enable Indian tribes across the country to develop what could be vast gas, coal and oil resources on their lands. Standing in the way of Senator Dorgan—and the Indian tribes—are a huge series of uneconomic and anachronistic laws and regulations that taken together render Indian lands disadvantaged compared to state or private land. At a time when we are desperately seeking domestic energy sources, this situation badly needs to be remedied. (more)

For a supposedly dead organization, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now sure has been busy. (more)

State and county leaders from South Carolina and Georgia are protesting unfulfilled promises from the federal government on disposing nuclear waste – and their voices are being heard. (more)

It’s go time. (more)