-Rep. Ted Poe, Texas Republican, addressing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the House floor this week
NO FLYING HIGH
As if commercial airliners already don't have enough to worry about - from bankruptcies to rising fuel costs to terrorists trying to blow them out of the once-blue skies - legislation was introduced in the U.S. Senate this week to "require air carriers to provide training for flight attendants and gate attendants regarding serving alcohol, recognizing intoxicated passengers and dealing with disruptive passengers."
JIMMY'S PARK
A congressional bill has just been introduced to expand the boundary of the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site in Georgia and redesignate it as the Jimmy Carter National Historical Park.
GELMI'S AMERICA
That was the Epoch Times' national correspondent and Washington playwright Alessandra Gelmi reading from her new collection of selected poems, "Ring of Fire," before an appreciative Georgetown audience - which, honestly, didn't know whether to laugh or cry upon hearing "Television":
I was adopted and when I turned thirty began to look for my mother At forty after a Promethean search I found her invited her over for a pot roast "That is a very pretty television," she said eyeing my 25" screen Hitachi "Would you like it?" I asked "Yes, I would," she answered We loaded it into her Pontiac and I never heard from her again
John McCaslin is a contributing columnist on Townhall.com and author of Inside The Beltway: Offbeat Stories, Scoops, and Shenanigans from around the Nation's Capital .
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