Sure, Mount Pleasant may boast the best costumes and a local flavor may be the pumpkin-carving theme of the year. But there's little doubt that the White House has the most professional Halloween operation going inside the District of Columbia. more ›

Coup in Honduras? Check. Michael Jackson? Check. Health care reform? Check. The D.C. license plate? Wait; this again? more ›

At Robert Gibbs's daily White House Press Briefing just a little while ago, Washington Post reporter Michael Shear lobbed two questions at the press secretary: one about whether President Obama would keep his promise to give a speech in a Muslim nation within his first 100 days in office, and the other about whether the president would place the "Taxation Without Representation" license plates on his limousine. Gibbs's response? "I confess I don't have the slightest idea what the license plates on the limousine say now, but I can certainly check on that." He then went on to also not answer the first question, telling Shear he couldn't get into the details of those plans, other than to say that the administration is moving forward on such a speech. more ›