by Doug Thompson | Feb 1, 2021 | Musings, Weather
The only way to get around Washington on some snow days Looks like Washington, DC, received more snow than us this weekend. Some, of course, would say the Nation’s Capitol deserves whatever it gets in terms of weather, storms, hurricanes or tornadoes. We saw a...
by Doug Thompson | Jan 30, 2021 | FUBAR, Musings
When I walked into the Rayburn House Office building on Capitol Hill in March 1981 to begin work as a press secretary to Rep. Paul Findley of Illinois I nodded to the police officer at the desk in the lobby without any metal detectors or security. Same for when I went...
by Doug Thompson | Jan 21, 2021 | Musings, Opinion, Politics
We watched the Inaugural activities Wednesday on video via laptop, acknowledging that Joe Biden’s clear and measured address set just the kind of tone that America needed after the past four years of tyranny, corruption and chaos. Although I have covered more...
by Doug Thompson | Oct 6, 2020 | Musings
Anyone from this part of the Old Dominion want to suggest a statue of a prominnent Virginian for placement in Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC? It can’t be Robert E. Lee. His statue in the hall was dumped in July by The Commission for...
by Doug Thompson | Mar 7, 2017 | Musings
Very little appears to be out of the bounds of propriety with our current occupiers of the White House, and supporting appointed positions, in Washington nowadays, but a statement by Ben Carson, new Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, established a new low in...
