washingtonpost.com - Al Kamen's In The Loop ColumnAl Kamen's In the Loop column reports on the latest comings and goings in official Washington,from White House personnel to lobbyists to members of Congress.She Didn't Get the Interview, but Iranians Didn't Get the Joke- October 31, 2007 Liberals are accusing the Bush-Cheney folks of trying to foment World War III or IV with all that reckless saber-rattling about Iranian nukes.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/30/AR2007103001975.html?nav=r... FEMA Meets the Press, Which Happens to Be . . . FEMA- October 26, 2007 FEMA has truly learned the lessons of Katrina. Even its handling of the media has improved dramatically. For example, as the California wildfires raged Tuesday, Vice Adm. Harvey E. Johnson, the deputy administrator, had a 1 p.m. news briefing.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/25/AR2007102502488.html?nav=r... That's Latin for 'Daily,' Not 'Occasionally'- October 24, 2007 Hard to keep up with the voting rights section of the Justice Department's civil rights division. Division chief John Tanner recently made some news with a fascinating analysis of how photo IDs for voters actually help minorities.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/23/AR2007102302164.html?nav=r... Getting to Know the New Neighborhood (Watch Your Briefcase)- October 19, 2007 Folks at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission just can't stop fussing about their eviction next summer from the posh headquarters at 18th and L streets NW to the wasteland -- or "developing" neighborhood -- known as NoMA.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/18/AR2007101802317.html?nav=r... Don't Make Me Use Article I, Section 5!- October 17, 2007 The White House and the Senate are gearing up for their last battles over appointments as the Bush administration enters its final year.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/16/AR2007101601761.html?nav=r... And Now We Return to 'Dead Men Suffer No Bias' . . .- October 12, 2007 Back in 2005, when last we checked with John K. Tanner, chief of the voting rights section in the Justice Department's civil rights division, he was rippin' about the leak of a document that showed most of the section's lawyers -- but not Tanner -- thought a Georgia voter-ID law discriminated against black voters.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/11/AR2007101102146.html?nav=r... More Entries for the Cheney Files- October 10, 2007 In response to Friday's column, Loop Fans have been sending in fine sightings of the oft-reclusive Vice President Cheney on his travels.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/09/AR2007100901914.html?nav=r... In Washington and Beyond, Disclosing a Few of Cheney's Locations- October 5, 2007 Seems famously secretive Vice President Cheney has been, for most of his tenure, at an undisclosed location, even if he's really just at his office, his residence, Camp David, his house in St. Michaels or the Paul Nelson hunting club in South Dakota.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/04/AR2007100402281.html?nav=r... From the State Department, All the News for Inquiring Minds- October 3, 2007 Fox News, launched with such high hopes 11 years ago as the "fair and balanced" network, apparently hasn't lived up to its billing. CNN never had a chance. The other networks Please. No citizen could dare trust the agenda-driven print media -- The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times -- to figure out, let alone accurately tell, the "real" story.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/02/AR2007100202033.html?nav=r... |