No Straw Men

Here’s another thought or two about the $40 billion Air Force fuel tanker contract and some related matters.

Every spring in Washington, a ritual commences with the predictability of the cherry blossoms blooming around the Tidal Basin or the silvery hickory shad making their spawning run up the Potomac.

I do want to call attention to InsiderOnline.org, a Web site run by my colleague Alex Adrianson.

One Craigslist poster has a crush on the Politico reporter.

The WaPo’s Dana Milbank confirms what we suspected earlier: That his “blog” is anything but.

Unfair or not, the Olympics have never been simply about sports.

Our Washington bureau was hard at work over the weekend, reporting on the flurry of events surrounding this year’s White House Correspondents Association dinner, including the crowded preparties at the Washington Hilton and the rain-soaked (albeit high-te

So tonight I was coming back from the gym (doing a trial at Washington Sports Club… yeaa!) I saw this disheveled looking guy rounding the corner obviously upset about something.

Last night MySpace launched a Karaoke feature for their site.

I have no clue what my colleagues make. I suspect some earn more than I do and others take home less.

By the time Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle finally packed up her lovely corner office with its fresh blue carpet and mini-fridge full of Diet Coke, her exit must have come as a relief–even to many of her friends on Team Hillary.

In the hour before he divorced himself from the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama held a town meeting in Winston-Salem, N.C., and used the occasion to announce several other divorces.

All we hear these days is whining from reckless home borrowers and their banks. But did you know that renters are 32 percent of American households? And that homes in foreclosure are less than 2 percent?

At a town hall forum in Iowa yesterday, Sen. John McCain was asked about a story from Cliff Schecter’s controversial recent book, The Real McCain, which alleges that during a 1992 campaign stop, McCain angrily called his wife a “trollop” and a “cuntt” in