January 5th, 2012
WASHINGTON (AP) — As HBO considers making a movie about Marion Barry with Eddie Murphy in the title role, the real Barry is doing something that comes naturally: running for re-election in the nation’s capital. (more)
October 1st, 2010
For my money, the most disastrous result from all of the primaries across America this year was the loss of Democratic District of Columbia mayor Adrian Fenty to Vincent Gray, the City Council chairman. Now, granted, Fenty was very far from the perfect mayor. He did a lousy job with the cleanup of this year’s snowpocalypses. He helped to rob DC residents of a democratic say on gay marriage. He mismanaged recent crime- and money-related scandals. In any other circumstances, he would have deserved to lose his reelection bid. But DC does not deserve Vince Gray. (more)
September 13th, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) — Before Barack Obama there was Adrian Fenty: a young, energetic, biracial lawyer and Democrat looking to fill a top political post in Washington. (more)
August 25th, 2010
The debris from recent storms and residue from nature’s seasonal budding cycles bring forth the opportunity to sweep clear (as compared to power blow) walkways and driveways of dead twigs, decaying berries, and dry leaves. By one’s own hand, every surface is purged as all dirt is vanquished even in the most angular nooks and crannies. A new freshness is revealed, if only until the next strong wind showers more debris upon the recently-swept grounds. (more)
July 28th, 2010
How much do Dems love discussing tax increases right before an election? SO, SO MUCH! — Faced with ethics investigation, senile congressman tells colleagues to eat his shorts — The children of America have placed a bounty on Arne Duncan’s head –
Christian student banned from counseling program for refusing to abandon 2,000-year-old belief system — Pitbull owners may be last hope for California Democrats — States cannot waste money fast enough (more)
March 30th, 2010
Politicians are no strangers to strip clubs, or any other type of sex establishment, for that matter. (more)
February 16th, 2010
Well, it sure as hell wasn’t a whitewash. (more)
February 9th, 2010
Friends and enemies, readers and illiterates, (more)
February 6th, 2010
A new mayor is sworn in, palm on the Bible. Mere hours later, that hand is stuffed into a snow glove as a snowstorm bears down on Baltimore. It happened to Clarence H. Du Burns in 1987, and it is happening now to Stephanie C. Rawlings-Blake who, fresh off her swearing-in, is getting a crash course in the politics of a snowstorm. (more)
