Washington news
- State Dept. To Order Diplomats To Iraq
- The State Department will order as many as 50 U.S. diplomats to take posts in Iraq next year because of expected shortfalls in filling openings there, the first such large-scale forced assignment since the Vietnam War. — From Washingtonpost.com, Oct 27, 2007
- O'Malley Plan Puts Slots Issue To Voters
- Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) put forward legislation last night that would allow voters to decide in a referendum whether Maryland should legalize slot machine gambling at five racetrack and non-track locations, a compromise that legislative leaders sa — From Washingtonpost.com, Oct 27, 2007
- 3 States Compete for Water From Shrinking Lake Lanier
- BUFORD, Ga., Oct. 26 -- No gauges are necessary at Lake Lanier to measure the ravages of the Southeast's drought. — From Washingtonpost.com, Oct 27, 2007
- From CIA Jails, Inmates Fade Into Obscurity
- ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- On Sept. 6, 2006, President Bush announced that the CIA's overseas secret prisons had been temporarily emptied and 14 al-Qaeda leaders taken to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. But since then, there has been no official accounting of wh — From Washingtonpost.com, Oct 27, 2007
- A Museum On Woodstock, With a Haircut
- BETHEL, N.Y. -- It rises from the hilltop, bigger than a barn, built of stone and roofed in copper. Officially it will be the Museum at Bethel Woods, and it will be focused on the Woodstock festival, the "three days of peace and music" that took pla — From Washingtonpost.com, Oct 27, 2007
- 'I Don't Think This Place Is Worth Another Soldier's Life'
- BAGHDAD, Oct. 26 Their line of tan Humvees and Bradley Fighting Vehicles creeps through another Baghdad afternoon. At this pace, an excruciating slowness, they strain to see everything, hoping the next manhole cover, the next rusted barrel, does not — From Washingtonpost.com, Oct 27, 2007
- Court Orders Release of Man in Teen-Sex Case
- The Georgia Supreme Court yesterday ordered the release of a man who was serving a 10-year prison sentence for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was two years older than she was. — From Washingtonpost.com, Oct 27, 2007
- Torture Stance Raises Doubts on Mukasey
- A growing number of Senate Democrats who had previously praised attorney general nominee Michael B. Mukasey are now focusing on his refusal to answer a question about torture as a pivotal issue for his confirmation. — From Washingtonpost.com, Oct 27, 2007
- CORRECTIONS
- ¿ An Oct. 26 Page One article said Iran produces 2.5 million barrels of oil a day. Iran produces daily about 4 million barrels and exports 2.5 million barrels. ¿ In the Oct. 24 Style section, a student quoted in an Escapes article on Virginia's — From Washingtonpost.com, Oct 27, 2007
- Progress Reported in Fight Against Fires
- LOS ANGELES, Oct. 26 -- While residents streamed home from evacuation centers by the thousands in much of Southern California on Friday, firefighters concentrated on the nine blazes still burning the region, including an Orange County arson fire cre — From Washingtonpost.com, Oct 27, 2007
- Jobless Claims Continue Falling
- New York - Initial jobless claims for the week ending March 17, 2007 were 316,000, down 4,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 320,000. It marked the third week in a row that the nation's jobless count fell, which surprised job pundits w — From AXcess News, Mar 22, 2007
- Okay, we may...
- Okay, we may not be able to stop or counter the cresting wave of Iran nuclear bamboozlement. But we can at least give you the play-by-play along with color commentary that we can refer back to when we're discussing possible Iran disengagement strat — From Talking Points Memo, Apr 12, 2006
- Okay, aside from...
- Okay, aside from the bamboozlement on Iran talk, I think I've found the real gem in Scott McClellan's comments today in the gaggle. You probably saw the Post piece today that says the DIA had decided definitievely that those 'mobile labs' tra — From Talking Points Memo, Apr 12, 2006
- Hotline: RNC funds...
- Hotline: RNC funds phone-jammer's legal defense out of generosity of spirit. — From Talking Points Memo, Apr 12, 2006
- The Muckrakers lament...
- The Muckrakers lament that they won't have Howard Kaloogian to kick around anymore -- after he managed a feeble fourth place in yesterday's open primary to succeed Duke Cunningham. That and other news of the day in today's Daily Muck. Actuall — From Talking Points Memo, Apr 12, 2006