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Water
Posted on July 8, 2010
If you Google the search term “water main break,” you get close to 6 million hits. In the Washington D.C. area, the suburb of Potomac is dealing with a huge...
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Blood and Iron
Posted on July 7, 2010
The nature of national identity came to my mind as I watched the World Cup yesterday. South Africa is hosting the soccer tournament, the first time an African nation has...
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Fireworks
Posted on July 6, 2010
We had an all-American Fourth of July this year on Capitol Hill. My brother came in with his wife and kids, so we were excited to soak in some of...
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Hot Air
Posted on July 2, 2010
There is a lot of hot air blowing in Washington DC, but most of it is happening in the cold, cold air inside the well air-conditioned House and Senate chambers....
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Desperation
Posted on July 1, 2010
To paraphrase Pink Floyd, “desperation is the Obama way.” The President and his Democratic colleagues are desperate to find any angle to try to change the course of the coming...
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