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What incendiary Capitol Hill bar allows its well-heeled (or well-connected) regulars to run its pool tables like their own personal money-making enterprise? They’ll tell you that it’s $50 a game or $5 a ball to play on “their” tables, but don’t even try to win because you might win the game, but once the bouncers remove you from the premises at your opponent’s request, you’ll never collect your money.

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WHICH National Review Online contributor was spotted, in the words of a Wonkette Operative…

in the Pour House last night throwing up in the middle of the goddamned barroom.

Here’s a hint: he is a douchebag.

Put an ad up on craigslist looking for a room to rent and you never know who’ll get back to you. One young man got a response from a legislative staffer to a certain Republican Representative from Ohio. The staffer has the usual requirements in a roommate: clean, quiet, white… MORE »

So what the hell happened in Tokyo this morning? Some of your ideas: MORE »

Dick Cheney is flying around the Pacific calling for more war forever and ever with everyone everywhere this week, and your hard-working press corps is with him every step of the way. Here’s a snippet from this morning’s Mark Silva pool report: MORE »

WHICH local gossip threw a tantrum at the Canadian Embassy the other night? Our tipster writes: MORE »

As seasoned porn fans know, Larry Flynt sends each member of Congress a complimentary copy of Hustler each month. Most offices claim they just toss it, along with all the letters from angry old ladies and all the petitions you sign about mercury in fish or whatever. But according to a former staffer named “Ryan,” one member happily (if secretly) took home each and every issue. MORE »

Ok, neither the time nor the studio are mentioned, but you guys are a smart bunch. Who’s the lucky guy? Guesses in the comments. MORE »

There’s a pretty good li’l blind item in Michael Kinsley’s column this week (thesis: people on the Internet sure are full of themselves MySpace MySpace blog bloggy blog): MORE »

From the inbox: MORE »

Despite denials from the Department of Justice, ABC News is standing by its story that House Speaker Dennis Hastert is “in the mix” of the FBI investigation into congressional corruption. ABC quotes anonymous “law enforcement sources,” including a “senior official” who told ABC, “You guys wrote the story very carefully, but they are not reading it very carefully.”

Who is ABC’s source? This person is in law enforcement, but apparently not at the DoJ proper (in which case he would probably be referred to as a “Justice Department official”).

After the jump, some ruminations from us.

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Yesterday we gave you two blind items for your consideration. Here’s the first (originally from Page Six):

WHICH Democratic party moneybags is getting divorced because he diddled with a candidate’s daughter? To cap it off, his wife, the mother of his children then had a go with her personal trainer (a woman)…

In the comments, the dominant response was George Zimmer, the founder and CEO of Men’s Wearhouse. By email, this additional response: “Terry McAuliffe with one of the Kerry daughters…. Or better yet, McAuliffe with one of the Bush twins. I would prefer the latter.”

And then the second item:

The daughter of a potential 2008 candidate was having a very spirited going-away party at the Tortilla Coast on Thursday night. Apparently she’s leaving Washington to work for her dad back at home. Quite a few staffers from various congressional offices were on hand, as well as close friends, roommates, and God only knows how many male admirers. Word is that in her new position she’ll be raising money for ‘08.

We received one, highly detailed response, which included some additional information about the alleged candidate in question. Check it out, after the jump.

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We seem to have cornered the market in blind items about misbehaving daughters of prominent politicians. First we asked you about a cokehead daughter, and then about one who had an affair with a fundraising powerhouse. And now, we bring you this little item (courtesy of a tipster): MORE »

Sure, they’re scandal-ridden, their credibility in tatters. But the Page Six people still come up with scrumptious blind items: MORE »