Rep. Mark Souder announces resignation
House candidate Mark Souder has just been knocked off his own stool by the force of his own dishonesty.
Souder is one of those family-values guys who just can’t keep his hands off the forbidden fruit. He just won a contested primary for his seat. Here’s ‘Prepared Remarks by Indiana Rep. Mark Souder’:
It is [...]
Karzai, Clinton iron out differences between US and Afghan government
President Hamid Karzai and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attempted to put recent differences between the U.S. and Afghan governments behind them Tuesday, saying that while they may have policy disagreements, such disputes do not reflect instability in the overall bilateral relationship.
The last time Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, was in Washington—a year ago—he had [...]
Big Ten expansion push on fast track
According to a report in Sunday’s Chicago Tribune, the Big Ten is looking to accelerate its timetable for potential expansion. Citing anonymous sources familiar with the process, multiple high-ranking Big Ten officials are meeting Sunday in Washington, D.C. to discuss the potential for expansion.
The impromptu meeting in the nation’s capital makes sense because the [...]
Fate for the Beltway Snipers
John Gaeta received a letter of apology this week from the man who shot him point-blank in the neck at a Louisiana mall in 2002.
The shooter was Lee Boyd Malvo, the younger half of the so-called D.C. sniper team that terrorized the Southeast and the nation’s capital that year. Malvo is serving a life [...]