>> The new Columbia Heights Target is opening at 8 a.m. tomorrow, several days ahead of schedule. Mayor Fenty made the first purchase at the new store at a preview today, picking up batting gloves for his twin sons. [WTOP]

>> U.S. Park Police Chief Dwight E. Pettiford was removed from operational command today. [WaPo]

>> House Republicans are going to be “live-blogging” from a Budget Committee debate on the fiscal 2009 spending plan. How adorable! [The Hill]

>> “When my fellow juror was examining the evidence bag during deliberation there were two tiny drug bags. And his concern: ‘that’s not $45 worth of crack.'” [Prince of Petworth]

>> “Gentlemen don’t knock the cameras from the hands of Wonkette’s Liz Glover, but this is not a story about gentlemen. It’s a story about Late Night Shots, and its founder, Reed Landry.” [Wonkette]

>> The New York Post exaggerated how pissed Clinton adviser Mark Penn’s neighbors are about the fact that he’s renovating his house in Georgetown? Shocker. [Examiner]

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