When a conversation between Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle and third-party challenger Scott Ashjian was leaked over the weekend, Angle’s comment that “Republicans have lost their standard, they’ve lost their principle” risked alienating some of her biggest backers in Washington. Now that she’s in Washington today raising money at More…
There’s going to be a rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. tomorrow and, for once, it won’t involve the tea parties. The Washington Post reports that more than 400 progressive groups, who’ve been planning the event for months, hope to draw tens of thousands of supporters to More…
It wasn’t nearly as big or nearly as angry, but tea party activists flooded Washington yesterday to march on the same ground they had last year and prove the continued commitment and viability of their movement:
Zachary Roth digs up something I’d nearly forgotten about. In April 2009, Kristopher “Pale Horse” Sickles posted a risible YouTube video beseeching fellow militia members to descend on Washington for a “Million Militia Man March.”
A peaceful demonstration of at least a million — hey, if we can
You can’t raid the Pentagon that way — those who built the building thought of this — but you can kill a lot of commuters, especially shortly before 7 on a weeknight. Luckily that hasn’t happened, but two Pentagon guards have been injured. The suspect is in custody and the More…
The National Organization for Marriage, fresh off a fairly successful 2009, is asking members to demand that Congress passes a bill forcing a District of Columbia referendum on the city’s new gay marriage rights.
The email:
The terrorist Hambali, a former occupant of a CIA black-site cell, might be tried in Washington, D.C., which doesn’t know a thing about security.
An intense security review is under way as the Obama administration considers holding a trial in Washington for the Guantanamo Bay detainee suspected of planning
Getting into Wednesday’s Washington, D.C., premiere of “Tea Party: The Documentary Film” meant walking through a steady rain into the Ronald Reagan building, a sprawling downtown trade and convention center where the economic conservative group FreedomWorks, which helped organize a number of Tea Party protests, had rented a foyer and More…
Election night was bittersweet for Andrew Moylan. The young government affairs manager of the conservative National Taxpayers Union was watching returns in Asheville, N.C., with fellow attendees of the conservative State Policy Network’s annual meeting. Early in the night, the gubernatorial races in Virginia and then New Jersey went to More…
To hear the Democrats tell the tale, the extension of jobless benefits enacted over the weekend will provide those living in high-unemployment states with an additional 20 weeks of insurance.
Well, not quite.
Because the bill was held up More…
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