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by KenIt must have been in response to my pass-along of Andy Borowitz's bulletin "Hostage-Takers Call Comparisons to Tea Party 'Hurtful'" the oher day that our colleague Noah wrote,

by KenI make no secret of the fact that I love Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne Jr., not least for his seemingly unshakable decency. Even the bad people he finds it necessary to dress down come out sounding less, well, indecent in his retelling.

One of New York's greatest buildings, Cass Gilbert's U.S. Custom House, is now home to the Museum of the American Indian.by KenIt's one of New York's greatest buildings, the Beaux Arts former U.S. Custom House (1902-07) designed by Cass Gilbert, standing proudly below and overlooking historic Bowling Green, near the southern tip of Manhattan -- and now home to the Museum of the American Indian (and also a Citi Bike bike-sharing depot).

If I were to tell you that "the answer is Jeb Bush," could you guess what the question might be?by KenAs regular readers know, here at DWT we're not big fans of washingtonpost.com's "Fix"-master, Chris Cillizza, that fearless champion of Village-sanctified reality, and in a moment I'm going to offer an example of why.For now, while I'm not going to make a big point of urging you to read his post "Republican Party could learn a lot

To hear Washington Post political reporter Dan Balz (right) tell Fix-master Chris Cillizza the story of the big push made by party bigwigs (knowing how bad Willard Romney sucked) to persuade NJ Gov.

No one in the House Republican caucus thinks the man who befriended Muammar Qaddafi and lolled away his evenings at the Qaddafi family ranch, is any kind of threat to their political careers.Beltway Republicans expect M

We all love watching the Republican civil war between the greed and selfishness wing and the hate and bigotry wing as it unfolds. In the radio interview above, Palin declares war, again, on Marco Rubio and Kelly Ayotte. But how about the civil war that's tearing apart the Tea party itself... a civil war within a civil war? Those are always the most fun.Over the weekend Luke Mullins covered an aspect of that for the Washingtonian: Armey In Exile.

Both Beltway political parties have been having problems with their conservative wings. Inside Congress, ascendant "New Dems"-- the Republican wing of the Democratic Party-- are making common cause with Republicans on a range of issues, many-- they claim, at the behest of Steve Israel who didn't learn any useful lessons from the Great Blue Dog Apocalypse of 2010.

Miss McConnell lays down with the GOP's 3 nihilist psychopathsA few days ago, television personality Bill Maher was musing about the idea of Texas teabagger Ted Cruz running for president.