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As momentum builds in Hollywood for the Academy Awards, Tracy's Kids, a local charitable program for children with cancer, held their own movie-themed gala on Tuesday night. Politicos, corporate honchos, and other benevolent Washington types filled Lucky Strike for a reception before taking the escalator upstairs to the Regal Gallery Place cinemas to see one of six Oscar nominated films.

Flickr user erin m spotted this sign in a souvenir shop in D.C.'s Union Station. Is 75 percent off enough to tempt you?

When I received an email from John McCain last night asking me to "Make History Tomorrow" by voting for him, I was somewhat perplexed. After all, I've never knowingly given my email to anyone who might use it for a conservative cause. Moreover, I wasn't born in the U.S. and am not (yet) eligible to vote, so does this mean that John McCain wants me to commit voter fraud for him?

Black Flag frontman turned globetrotting hilari-phizer Henry Rollins has been captivating audiences with stories of his travels for a quarter-century now. The onetime Henry Garfield first toured the country in his early 20s as the fourth and final singer of iconic punk outfit Black Flag, and has continued to write and perform music with various lineups of his Rollins Band. Through his company, 2.13.61, he has published more than a dozen volumes of his journals and travelogues. He turns up in movies occasionally, and he hosted an eclectic assortment of guests on his Independent Film Channel talk show from 2005 to 2007. He remains the host of Harmony in My Head, a weekly music program on Los Angeles's Indie 103 FM that consists wholly of Rollins playing music he likes, regardless of genre or era. He's published three volumes of his program notes from the show, under the series title Fanatic!

While Sen. John McCain's Saturday rally in Woodbridge appeared to go off without a hitch, his campaign continued its now well-worn tradition of saying something of questionable judgment over the weekend.

Earlier this week we debated why Virginia seems to provoke politicians and campaign officials to say forehead-slappingly foolish things. After all, you'd think the infamous George Allen "macaca" incident would have served as something of an example for Virginia GOP Chair Jeff Frederick when he recently compared Sen. Barack Obama to Osama bin Laden.

The most unexpected name-drop of last night’s presidential debate (besides, of course, Joe the Plumber) was D.C.’s own schools chancellor, Michelle Rhee, as the final moments of the broadcast slid into bickering between McCain and Obama over whether or not Rhee supports vouchers:

So over the weekend John McCain's brother, Joe McCain, serving as a surrogate for the presidential candidate, appeared at a rally in Loudoun County. During his remarks, the Post reported that he joked that Arlington and Alexandria were "communist country," alluding to the fact that Northern Virginia has become increasingly Democratic over the last decade, and that Arlington and Alexandria especially might as well be part of the District of Columbia in terms of their left-leaning politics. He was playing to the Loudoun crowd, and apparently people there laughed. Assuming we shouldn't just ignore this as mere political gaffe, and considering how important both candidates appear to think Virginia is to their electoral strategies, we're curious what you Virginia residents think about this. Has the divide between Northern Virginia and the rest of the state grown so wide that the McCain campaign may be on to something by trying to play up those differences in areas like Loudoun County? Or has Loudoun itself sufficiently changed over the last decade that playing up the us vs. them mentality in that part of Virginia might be supremely stupid?

Go ahead and finalize your debate watching plans! CNN is reporting that John McCain has announced he will show up in Mississippi tonight after all to debate Barack Obama on national television. The debate starts at 9 p.m., so get cracking on coming up with the best possible McCain vs. Obama drinking games. If you're hoping to watch the debate with others out on the town, here's a couple of ideas: Marvin is hosting a viewing party with WaPo's The Root; stand-by Stetson's will have all their TVs tuned to the debate as usual; Drinking Liberally is gathering at the 17th Street Cafe; and Left Bank in Adams Morgan has a combo debate watching/post-debate dance party on the schedule.

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The latest is that Obama aides say their candidate is not inclined to to delay the debate, but Obama hasn't come out to say anything definitely yet. What do you think he should do?

Republican presidential candidate John McCain is asking the Obama campaign and the debate commission to delay Friday night's first presidential debate, reports the AP. He has announced he is suspending his campaign to focus on the economic bailout package currently before Congress.

A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows that Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is polling slightly better in battleground state Virginia than rival John McCain.

   

Take a look at the three photos below. The first is an image from John McCain's acceptance speech in Minnesota last night. The second is a photo of the building that was hugely projected behind him, which turns out to be Walter Reed Middle School in North Hollywood, CA. Why would McCain have that photo behind him last night? Talking Points Memo smartly speculates that the GOP must have intended to have a photo of D.C.'s own Walter Reed Army Medical Center behind McCain, but came up with the wrong image when they nabbed one off the internet.

Every blogger in America is scrambling to pull together some kind of background information on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain named as his running mate this morning. The hits are generally these: She's been governor for a little under two years; she used to be a sports reporter and later mayor of Wasilla City; she took second place in the 1984 Miss Alaska contest; she's super pro-life. She's also being investigated by the Alaska state legislature on allegations that she fired her ex-brother-in-law from his job as a state trooper for personal reasons.

With a little over a month remaining in the school year, things aren’t slowing down for Michelle Rhee. Never mind that the D.C. Schools Chancellor is being named in what looks to be a time-consuming vanity lawsuit by Washington Teachers’ Union vice-president Nathan Saunders, or that City Council Chair Vincent Gray is messing with her budget. The woman has work to do.

One of these guys might be the next president, so it's good to try and parse where they stand on District voting rights. At least that was the thinking over at D.C. Vote, who recently recorded and sent in a number of videos of District residents asking the presidential candidates from the Republican Party where they stood on D.C. voting rights. The videos, eleven in all, were submitted to CNN for the upcoming CNN/YouTube...

It's not often that two hippos chase down a presidential candidate. But today two did and survived to tell the story. Voting rights activists protested outside the Washington Hilton this morning, hoping to catch a glimpse of John McCain and express their displeasure at his recent vote against cloture on voting rights legislation that would have moved legislation forward to grant the District a voting seat in the House. Among the activists were two...

When it comes to who the D.C. Republican Party should side with in the 2008 presidential contest, the choice is obvious -- Mike Huckabee. Sure, the former governor of Arkansas doesn't have much of a chance of winning, but he's been consistent in his support of D.C. voting rights. In yesterday's All-American Presidential Forum on PBS, hosted by Tavis Smiley, it was Huckabee who backed voting rights for the District's 600,000 residents. In response to...

Written by DCist Contributor Fredo Alvarez In a 60-39 cloture vote, the U.S. Senate barely passed the Matthew Shepard Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007 (S 1105) today as an amendment to the FY 2008 Defense Authorization Bill (HR 1585). The measure would expand protection against hate crimes to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, and would enable the Federal government to provide assistance in the investigation or prosecution of...

New Hampshire Looks to Smack Down Senators: After the U.S. Senate failed to overcome a filibuster on legislation that would grant the District a voting seat in the House of Representatives, voting rights activists swore they would have their revenge. On the top of their list are Republican senators John McCain (Ariz.), Gordon Smith (Ore.), and Thad Cochran (Miss.), not to mention the lone Democrat to vote against the bill, Max Baucus (Mont.). But one...

After being removed from committee postings by his Republican colleagues in the Senate and being called upon to resign by the likes of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.), embattled Sen. Larry Craig went "on vacation" with his wife Wednesday, according to the Washington Post. The fallout surrounding his guilty plea to lewd conduct in a men's bathroom in the Minneapolis airport has only intensified since Roll Call first broke the...

As the full Senate readies to debate and vote on legislation that would grant the District a voting seat in the House of Representatives, voting rights activists are focusing on two key senators -- Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) and Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.). According to people close to the lobbying effort, the legislation has garnered enough votes for a simple majority, but is still short of the votes needed to prevent a filibuster. And while...

>> Sen. John McCain probably wishes he didn't sing "bomb Iran" to the tune of the Beach Boy's "Barbara Ann" at a meeting with supporters. Or at least he wishes it wasn't captured on YouTube. [via Reason's Hit & Run] >> Local groups continue to schedule memorials to the victims of Monday's shootings at Virginia Tech. You can find a good list of Washington-area events here. [NBC4] >> Tickets for both Wilco and the...

It's another nice day out there, Washington. Or, is it? Actually forecasters are calling for rain (but no wintry mix here) in the late part of the day, so bring your umbrella even though it doesn't seem like you really need one right now. And while you're searching the depths of your closet for one, consider this question: Now that the plans for a new Madame Tussauds wax museum in downtown Washington are officially coming...

>> Now fellas, we know circumcision is a serious issue, and everyone is pleased to learn that the procedure could protect millions from contracting HIV, but our inner ten-year-old also delighted in the Post's coverage today. Speaking about the foreskin research on behalf of the World Health Organization was none other than Kevin De Cock. Seriously. We're happy to see he has taken the problem firmly in hand and cut through social issues surrounding the...

The past week in Washington has been dominated by on story: Baseball. The fate of the Washington Nationals, now endangered by D.C. Council Chairman Linda Cropp, is now in doubt as the intersection of corporate money, an angry electorate, and politicians looking after their legacies became a perfect train wreck of ambition. What can we say that hasn't already been said about baseball in D.C.? So, we'll sum up by simply saying "Baseball, yadda, blah blah, Linda-cakes." And we'll move on to something more important.