The dream of every insurgent candidate in D.C. has come true: FBI and IRS raids were conducted on the home and offices of a gargantuan political player, Jeffrey Thompson, who has ties to every...
Marion Barry
There has been some talk and a bit of news this week about various people seeking to be delegates to the Democratic National Convention.
It is difficult to get excited about a convention where...
2011 was a bad year for DC Council Chairman Kwame Brown. It looks like 2012 could be even worse.
Last week veteran reporter Bruce Johnson tweeted, "Word is a new grand jury looking at a local...
Can you image a party on State-of-the-Union night in Washington where the rule of the event was that politics are off the table? That was the directive for Tuesday night’s 60th...
There have been five movies starring the San Francisco homicide detective nicknamed "Dirty Harry" (portrayed by Clint Eastwood), but there will be no sequel to the political career of...
Snollygoster \snä-lē- gäs-tər\ : a politician who will go to any lengths to win public office, regardless of party affiliation or platform.
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The indefatigable Ron Moten, co-founder of...
On Saturday morning, a news article in The New York Times (In Washington, Headlines That Revive Bad Memories, with pictures of last Monday’s protest) suggested that Mayor Vincent Gray is...
Second in a series. An icy wind threw knives as the winter sun dropped into sub-freezing darkness, but it didn't stop dozens of Ward 3 activists from trekking down to the John A. Wilson...
