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Love Beats Politics and Money to Inspire Substantial Change

Caroline Brewer | Posted 04.16.2013 | Politics
Read More: Brady Campaign, Public Schools, Capitol Hill, Obama Gun Control, Violence, Gun Control, Gandhi, Gun Violence, Religion, Education, John Lennon, Gun Violence Prevention, Martin Luther King, Valentine's Day, Education Reform, Rosa Parks, Teaching, Love, Nation's Capital, Albert Einstein, Politics News
Caroline Brewer

Love is like the seed that is in itself. It multiplies, elevates, and corrects errors, especially the erroneous thinking that those who are deficient in love have about themselves.

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Friday Talking Points [132] -- The DMV? Really?

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Debt, Tea Party, Forward, Floor, 9/11, Dc, Nevada, Deficit, Video, Swamp, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Tax Cuts, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Reid, First Responders, Tom Vilsack, Deficit Spending, Resign, Democrat, Angle, Bush Era, Democrats, Barack Obama, Dmv, The Swamp, Mddotw, Make It in America, Harry Reid, Weiner, Senate, Social Security, Small Business, President Obama, Speech, Washington, Sharron Angle, Deficits Don't Matter, Cheney, Democratic, Obama, Patty and Selma, Charlie Rangel, Van Jones, Bush Years, Friday Talking Points, Republican, Bush, Dick Cheney, Bush Tax Cuts, Pelosi, Ethics, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Obstructionism, Vilsack, Nation's Capital, Ed Schultz, Anthony Weiner, House, Fire, Too Extreme, Rangel, Chris Weigant, Sherrod, Shirley Sherrod, Fox News, George W Bush, Netroots Nation, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Last week, this column took a week off, due to an extended trip into the desert for the Netroots Nation convention. But now, we turn our sights back ...

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Dorothy Height: Washington Won't Be the Same Without You

Tamar Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Washington DC, Women's Rights, Dorothy Height Died, Dorothy Height Dead, Dorothy Height, Civil Rights, Nation's Capital, Politics News
Tamar Abrams

Dorothy Height was a presence in Washington -- often you'd see her hat before you saw her. She died on Tuesday, yet another in a line of our esteemed elders who paved the way for us to be free, self-determining, strong men and women.

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Snow More! Nation's Capital Shuttered by Another Snowstorm

Tamar Abrams | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Antarctica, Blizzard, Federal Government, Chicago, Phoenix, Snow, President Obama, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Nation's Capital, Healthy Living News
Tamar Abrams

Gauging by what little I can see outside, we'll be government-free for another few days. Happy Valentine's Day!

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Snow Way! The Forecasters Got it Right!

Tamar Abrams | Posted 02.06.2010 | Media
Read More: Meteorologists, TV News, Weather Forecasters, Blizzard, Donner Party, Tai Shan, Washington, Snow, Judge Judy, George Clooney, Lady GaGa, Dc, Arlington VA, Super Bowl, Nation's Capital, Weather Forecasts, Media News
Tamar Abrams

I awoke this morning to a scene that the Donner Party would have recognized. Where I know I parked my car there is a mound of white. Two feet of snow and it's still coming down.

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