The First Family has put out another one of their cringe-worthy “BarneyCam” holiday videos, featuring stilted conversations between them and their dogs, Barney and Miss Beazley. This year’s video features the two dogs sitting around with blank stares while the Bushes tell them that they want to be Junior Park Rangers. It doesn’t make any more sense when you watch it. The White House has also posted a handy transcript of the video, in…

Good morning, Washington. International politics watchers will no doubt spend their day today assigning meaning to the resignation of British Prime Minister Tony Blair. They’ll speculate about the future of the Labour party, and draw conclusions regarding the possible consequences to the war in Iraq. Here at DCist, we toil with no such weighty topics. Nay, we’ll spend our day fantasizing about what it must be like to live in a country where a massively…

British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Labour Party boasts that one of its many accomplishments is that 200,000 more workers are now in recognized trade unions than were in the past — yet the 630 non-diplomatic employees at British embassies and consulates in the United States may soon be denied that very right. In the wake of cutbacks in sick leave and other such benefits in January, those employees voted to join the Silver Spring-based International…