Hooray for the "Do...

Joel Pollak, RealClearPolitics On September 2, 2011, the government's official unemployment statistics revealed that the U.S. economy had created zero jobs in August, and the unemployment rate stood at 9.1 percent.A few days later, on Sept. 8, President Barack Obama addressed a...

Seven Men Charged With ...

Last September, 21-year-old Jamal Coates was killed during a brazen daylight drive-by shooting on U Street NW. This week, reports Homicide Watch, seven men have been charged for gang violence and retaliations that led to seven deaths since 2006 in Columbia Heights, Adams Morgan and U...

Where Is Perry’s ...

Jamelle Bouie, American Prospect For evidence of Texas governor Rick Perry's rapid collapse, look no further than recent surveys of Republican presidential voters. According to a Gallup poll released yesterday, only 15 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents...

Can Obama Win? Not This...

John Cassidy, The New Yorker View original here:  Can Obama Win? Not This...

Is Our Children Learnin...

A Tufts University study finds that while the District and 20 states do discuss the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in their high school social studies curricula, they don’t have much context or detail. Fourteen states don’t mention the attacks at all in texts that have been updated...

Zoo Babies: National Zo...

It’s baby-birthing mania over at the National Zoo. The zoo’s 5-year-old lion Shera gave birth to a litter of four cubs overnight . The first-time mom is resting comfortably with her new pests. And that’s not all, folks! Baby daddy Luke also likely knocked up...

The President’s B...

Glenn Greenwald, Salon (updated below) This is one of the most impressive and commendable things Obama has done since being inaugurated: President Obama delivered a strong defense on Friday night of a proposed Muslim community center and mosque near ground zero in Manhattan, using a White...

Obama is Entirely a Cre...

Jennifer Rubin, Commentary Excerpt from:  Obama is Entirely a Creature of the...

Rising Tide of Nativism...

Tim Rutten, Los Angeles Times See the original post: Rising Tide of Nativism Washes Over...

Obama Stands Up for Gro...

Phillip & Haberman, Politico President Barack Obama on Friday endorsed a controversial plan to build a mosque and Islamic center just blocks from Ground Zero in Manhattan, despite the strong objections of conservatives, the ADL and those who lost loved ones in the September...