America’s Future Foundation recently hosted a contest to find the next greatest college blogger.  From their blog: “The purpose of the contest is to encourage original liberty-minded blogger journalism on college campuses and to identify young conservative and libertarian talent who wish to pursue careers as journalists and writers. The …

Capitals vs. Flyers [TONIGHT!] You’ve got to win one before you can win two, and you’ve got to win two before you can win three. With no room for error, the Washington Capitals forged a 3-2 Game 5 victory on Saturday, sending the series back to Philadelphia for Monday’s Game …

Rove Developing Outside Groups To Help GOP In Fall [Way to Win] Bitter Blogger Still an Obama Supporter [Big Head DC] The Story Behind the Pentagon’s Hidden Hand [fishbowlDC] Halperin: From the ‘gang of 500’ to ‘the six-way threat’ [Calderone]

While Obama campaign staffers work tirelessly to prove that John McCain will be no better than the current President- their boss accidently slipped and admitted this: “You have a real choice in this election. Either Democrat would be better than John McCain,” Obama said during an event in Pennsylvania, as quoted …

The Wall Street Journal branches out in the Rupert Murdoch era and brings us the latest in staffer hook-ups: Jesse Benton, 30, had a serious girlfriend in Washington when he signed up to be communications director for Texas Rep. Ron Paul. That quickly ended when she complained about his being …

Congressman Barney Frank introduces marijuana decriminalization bill Don’t forget about the FREE concert on the mall today.  

Wilbon:  Round 3 to the Wizards The series to watch, and listen to, is Washington vs. Cleveland, which already has name-calling and trash-talking — and it hasn’t even begun. And if that weren’t enough, the most charismatic figure in the game today, NBA analyst Charles Barkley, has called the Wizards …

This didn’t take long [Bitter Americans] Press Secretary to the Rescue [Grim] Congress to investigate BCS [too much free time]

The Politico recently featured a story about two political wonks that got hitched, and then opened a restaurant – one that has become increasingly popular. Khalid Pitts and Diane Gross are one-half politicos and one-half new restaurant owners. The newlyweds opened Cork, a wine bar on 14th Street, and they …

Hardly in my opinion, but our friends at RedState aren’t quite convinced it was an “itch.”

GWB to Pope: “Awesome speech.”  Really?  [h/t HotAir]

Kudos Mr. Spicer – you get the “shameless self-promotion” award of the week. [h/t Bedard]

Does the ‘Motion to Recommit’ keep you on the edge of your seat and your eyes glued to C-SPAN?  Do you even know what a Motion to Recommit [or MTR as the policy wonks call it] is? If you don’t, trust me, you’re not alone … if you do, well, there’s …

Fire your flack; hire a blogger [Extreme new media] Responses to Real CL Ads [On the Ball] “Bitter” hits the campaign trail [JoMa] Romney’s Top Ten Why He Dropped Out [Ambinder] If you feeling like a pimp [Brush your shoulders off]

UPDATE: Stuff Hill People Like highlight Big Byrd as #13 The Hill newspaper got it wrong today when they reported on Senator Byrd telling his critics to “shut up.” What the editors at one of Capitol Hill’s leading newspapers failed to realize was – the story wasn’t about Byrd telling …