Jim Zorn, You Belong Here!

We’re taking Sally Jenkin’s advice and getting excited about Jim Zorn coming to Washington. Yes, we were disappointed to see Joe Gibbs re-retire. And sure it would have been nice to have had a head coach like Gregg Williams take the throne as the heir apparent and player-favorite, or alternately one with a proven record [...]

Tom Lantos - of blessed memory

The 16th Street J notes with sadness the passing of Representative Tom Lantos of California. Congressman Lantos was the only Holocaust survivor to serve in the U.S. Congress and a strong moral presence on the Washington scene.  Lantos was 16 when the Nazis occupied Hungary in 1944. He escaped from a labor camp and eventually [...]