Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney should skate to an easy victory in Virginia’s Republican presidential primary tomorrow, but various elements might make it more of a hassle than expected.
After a day of protesting on the U.S. Capitol’s front lawn, members of Occupy Congress marched from the Hill to the Supreme Court to the White House. Only four arrests were reported.
As promised, a whole bunch of people gathered near the U.S. Capitol yesterday morning to milk a cow.
>> A winter weather advisory is in effect in parts of the area as freezing rain and sleet are expected to move in Thursday morning. [NBC4] >> A boy under the age of 10 was hit by a dump truck just after 4 p.m. at the intersection of 13th Street and Potomac Avenue SE. [WJLA] >> Um, so, forget about that Ron Paul blimp ever actually getting here, we guess. [Wonkette] >> “a multitude…
>> Oh noes! The Ron Paul blimp launch was delayed, and rescheduled for its D.C. appearance on Wednesday at 3 p.m. [via Wonkette] >> D.C.’s Beacon House Falcons of Edgewood Terrace won Pop Warner Football’s Pee Wee Division I Super Bowl championship on Saturday. [Notions Capital] >> Former D.C. Police Chief Charles Ramsey no longer thinks handgun bans are such a good idea now that he works for a city that doesn’t have one….
Libertarian-leaning Republican presidential candidate and hero of the Internets Ron Paul has gotten himself a blimp, and it’s headed this way. According to a just-released flight plan, the blimp, which will read “Who is Ron Paul? Google Ron Paul” on one side and “Ron Paul Revolution” on the other, will launch from Elizabeth City, N.C., Monday and flyover Washington circa 3 p.m. the same day, with a rally planned for 4 p.m. and another re-launch…
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…
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…
Mayor-For-Life Marion Barry continues to amaze us. Not only is he utterly untouchable by the long hand of the law, but he is an amazing politician; he just keeps getting elected to practically anything for which he’s run. Now, he’s even won a race he wasn’t actively campaigning for: Barry (or his likeness, rather) was selected to fill the last slot at the forthcoming Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in Penn Quarter. The museum, which will…