File this story under the “Petty Politics” category. Via The Stakeholder, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s own blog, we find that Roll Call is reporting that Democratic financier and philanthropist George Soros, at right, has floated the idea of buying the Washington Nationals, recently having joined the ranks of one of the groups that submitted a bid for the team. Congressional Republicans, upon having heard the rumor, slyly implied that action could be taken against…

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…