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If you are truly an American, check your politics at the door

If you are truly an American, check your politics at the door

We here at Capitol Hill Blue have a radical idea for this election. On Nov. 6, try checking your politics at the door. Don’t vote as a Democrat. Don’t vote…

Graffiti with punctuation

Graffiti with punctuation

In the movie “Contagion,” Elliott Gould plays a scientist investigating a deadly virus.  During  a confrontation with a scandal-sheet style blogger, Gould says:  “Blogging isn’t writing. It’s graffiti with punctuation.”…

9/11: The day America changed

9/11:  The day America changed

September 11, 2001: A clear, crisp fall day in Washington, DC, and New York. I was shooting a routine photo assignment in the District when my Blackberry went off. “Explosion…

A life well lived

A life well lived

When Ethel McPeak graduated from Willis High School in 1941, she knew she wanted more out of life than some of her classmates. So she and her best friend Gaynor…

Pissed Palin pans Fox News for pulling plug on planned punditry

Pissed Palin pans Fox News for pulling plug on planned punditry

Up oh.  Sarah Palin’s pissed at her current employer — Fox News — and she’s letting the entire world know it. And the woman who became a national embarrassment to…

Demoralized Republicans descend on a convention city threatened by actual and political storms

Demoralized Republicans descend on a convention city threatened by actual and political storms

Election battle-weary Republicans descended on Tampa, Florida, over the weekend, bringing with them a tsunami of emotions from a primary race that left many exhausted and few satisfied with the…

Sex, booze, drugs and the naked truth about members of Congress

Sex, booze, drugs and the naked truth about members of Congress

It’s no secret that members of Congress get drunk, screw around and do stupid things. They always have and they always will. Power is a natural aphrodisiac. “Washington is basically…

Living large and wild on taxpayer-funded Congressional junkets

Living large and wild on taxpayer-funded Congressional junkets

A report about a drunken night in Israel where several Republican members of Congress, including at least one wife and one daughter along with several staff members, consumed way too…

Dirtiest campaign of all time? Not by a long shot

Dirtiest campaign of all time?  Not by a long shot

At some point in every Presidential campaign, someone starts wringing their hands and declares the political rhetoric “toxic” and concludes that this is “the dirtiest campaign in history.” Which, of…

Lies, damn lies and Presidential politics

Lies, damn lies and Presidential politics

Here’s a newsflash for you: President Barack Obama’s campaign is run by double-dealing, lying scumbaags. Nah, strike that. It’s not news when a Presidential campaign lies. Presumed GOP candidate Mitt…