Washington DC Archive

  • President Obama, Wanda, Press Correspondents

    President Obama, Wanda, Press Correspondents

    Funny? Not Funny? You Decide. And don’t forget Colbert’s legendary speech a couple years ago:

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  • New Yorker Book Club and Impluse Buying

    New Yorker Book Club and Impluse Buying

    Saturday’s Impulse Shopping: Yesterday I was  reading a friend’s copy of the Nation, and I started feeling guilty about not subscribing to some of my favorite magazines and  thereby contributing to their decline and demise. I browsed their websites determined to spend at least some of my stimulus money propping up quality journalism. I discovered [...]

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  • DC Voting Rights: Ken Starr Edition

    DC Voting Rights: Ken Starr Edition

    Welcome to DC! Flickr: HeatherMG While the DC Voting Rights Act is stalled in the House due to the unfortunate gun amendment.  I came across (via Rober Schlesinger) this editorial in The Utah Standard-Examiner by Ken Starr and Viet Dinh. Seems that even with the Prop 8 oral arguments only recently passed, Starr and his [...]

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  • DC Voting Rights Act: Update (2)

    DC Voting Rights Act: Update (2)

    Thank you Rober Schlesinger. Voting rights for District of Columbia residents has become a gun rights issue thanks to the NRA.  Senate leaders did leave the opportunity open for them. I suppose it’s not that unbelievable that politicians and lobbyists would play politics with the rights of DC’s nearly 600,000 residents. NPR, did some nice [...]

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  • DC Voting Rights Act: Update

    DC Voting Rights Act: Update

    The DC Voting Rights Legislation which would give the district a long sought after vote in Congress appears to be at an impasse in The House of Representatives thanks to the gun amendment passed by the Senate last week. “D.C. leaders hoped that provision would not be included in the House version, but the National [...]

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  • DC Voting Rights Act: Here we go again

    DC Voting Rights Act: Here we go again

    The DC Voting Rights Act of 2009 passed the Senate in amended form on February 26, 2009. It’s up for a vote in the House this week according to a statement by House Majority Leader Stacy Hoyer. The bill turns Washington DC into a Congressional district and provides it with a voting member in the [...]

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