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  • Roll out the red carpet for Twitter; Oscar night a party for hecklers

    You can simply tune into the Oscars. Or you can watch them with the peanut gallery on Twitter.


  • On Twitter, a peanut gallery mocks the Oscars

    You can simply tune into the Oscars. Or you can watch them with the peanut gallery on Twitter.


  • Inside the Beltway: A gun maker goes active

    “I am a law-abiding citizen and responsible gun owner. I am saddened by the tragic events in Newtown, Connecticut, but I believe that efforts to impose new restrictions on me and other lawful and responsible owners like me are misguided. Did you know that violent crime with firearms has declined since the Federal ‘assault weapons ban’ expired in 2004? ...


  • "We must make certain they do not harm the economy by drowning small business lenders in a sea of red tape," says Rep. Spencer Bachus, Alabama Republican, of the health care law.

    Inside the Beltway: Dodd-Frank=5,320 pages

    Taming the Dodd-Frank Act: It's a daunting job, but someone equipped with a whip and a chair may manage to do it. Federal regulations emerging from the new law are occupying many pages - already twice as many as health care reform legislation - and officials are not even half finished with their task.


  • The top 10 tweets during the Academy Awards

    The Oscars can be absurdly glamorous, abundantly self-aggrandizing and achingly stodgy. Thankfully, there's Twitter.


  • Financial whiz Ric Edelman and BET founder and business man Robert Johnson talk up "business solutions to social problems." (image from 3 Roads Communications)

    Inside the Beltway

    It's boot the Newt time: All those predictions that Republican presidential hopeful and polling darling Newt Gingrich would face a shrill gauntlet of critics before the Iowa primaries are coming true.


  • Inside the Beltway

    As a complex week full of discord looms, consider "President Reagan's Favorite Macaroni and Cheese," a recipe shared by "Mrs. Ronald Reagan, Washington, D.C., Wife of the President" in a spiral-bound community cookbook published by the American Cancer Society's Northern Virginia division in 1983.


  • Inside the Beltway

    "Poll: In head-to-head matchup, Obama who ran in 2008 would trounce current Obama. The popularity of old Obama spells trouble for the new one," proclaims comedian Andy Borowitz in a parody commentary.


  • Inside the Beltway

    "On this Labor Day, we reaffirm that collective bargaining is a cornerstone of the American dream."


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