washingtonpost.com: Dana Milbank/staff/articles/dana+milbank/2009-11-24T05:00:00ZWashington Sketch: Seeing a setback in the race against breast cancer2009-11-24T05:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-11-24:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/23/AR2009112303145.html?nav=rss_opinion/columnsNancy Brinker, the breast cancer activist who painted the world pink, was feeling blue.Sweeteners for the South2009-11-22T05:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-11-22:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/21/AR2009112102272.html?nav=rss_opinion/columnsStaffers on Capitol Hill were calling it the Louisiana Purchase.An opaque transparency2009-11-20T05:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-11-20:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/19/AR2009111903751.html?nav=rss_opinion/columnsAs the first congressional investigation of the Fort Hood massacre began Thursday, a curious collection of witnesses assembled in the committee room.Washington Sketch: In China, Obama leaves more questions than he takes2009-11-19T05:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-11-19:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/18/AR2009111802924.html?nav=rss_opinion/columnsListening to President Obama and his Chinese counterpart this week, it was hard to tell who was Hu.Washington Sketch: Republican senators do an about-face on judicial filibusters2009-11-18T05:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-11-18:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/17/AR2009111703401.html?nav=rss_opinion/columnsIn their quest to thwart President Obama, Republicans do not fear the hobgoblin of consistency.Washington Sketch: No arrests for conservative Christians' anti-gay talk2009-11-17T05:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-11-17:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/16/AR2009111603248.html?nav=rss_opinion/columnsConservative Christian ministers from across the land, determined to test the bounds of a new law punishing anti-gay hate crimes, assembled outside the Justice Department on Monday to denounce the sin of homosexuality and see whether they would be charged with lawbreaking.Obama's world record2009-11-13T05:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-11-13:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/12/AR2009111209343.html?nav=rss_opinion/columnsIt sounds tailor-made for a GOP ad:Washington Sketch: Globe may not be big enough for One World Government2009-11-11T05:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-11-11:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/10/AR2009111015034.html?nav=rss_opinion/columnsThe New World Order came into being at 4:25 Tuesday afternoon.Washington Sketch: Gingrich is no longer conservative about showing his religion2009-11-10T05:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-11-10:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/09/AR2009110903302.html?nav=rss_opinion/columnsIt says much about the transformation of the Republican Party that even Newt Gingrich is now carrying the cross.Washington Sketch: No shortage of Republican objections during House health-care debate2009-11-08T05:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-11-08:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/07/AR2009110703229.html?nav=rss_opinion/columnsHouse Democrats were on the cusp of passing health-care legislation Saturday. The Republicans objected. Often.Washington Sketch: Milbank on Michele Bachman, More2009-11-06T17:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-11-06:/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/11/05/DI2009110503550.html?nav=rss_liveonlinePost columnist Dana Milbank serves as the capital's foremost critic of political theater.No one said freedom was pretty2009-11-06T05:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-11-06:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/05/AR2009110504566.html?nav=rss_opinion/columnsThe call to arms went out last week.Michael Steele on the election2009-11-05T05:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-11-05:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/04/AR2009110403118.html?nav=rss_opinion/columnsRepublican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele was doing a victory lap on the morning shows Wednesday after the GOP gubernatorial candidates won in New Jersey and Virginia.Washington Sketch: Republicans give global-warming hearing the cold shoulder2009-11-04T05:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-11-04:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/03/AR2009110303575.html?nav=rss_opinion/columnsThe senators' nameplates were lined up neatly on the green felt. A row of black leather chairs awaited senatorial bottoms. The microphones were live and the water iced.Washington Sketch: Will elections be a referendum on Obama? Depends on who wins.2009-11-03T05:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-11-03:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/02/AR2009110202873.html?nav=rss_opinion/columnsSo, will Tuesday's elections in Virginia, New Jersey and New York be a referendum on the Obama presidency? Let us put the question to a plebiscite.Washington Sketch Live2009-10-30T16:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-10-30:/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/10/23/DI2009102302927.html?nav=rss_liveonlineWashington Sketch: House Democrats' rally has a lot of salt, but little pep2009-10-30T04:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-10-30:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/29/AR2009102902920.html?nav=rss_opinion/columnsAs Speaker Nancy Pelosi led her House Democrats down the Capitol steps Thursday morning for a health-care pep rally, the sound system began to crank out . . . wait, that's not U2's "Elevation," is it?Washington Sketch: Defense spending bill is exercise in waste on want-not2009-10-29T04:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-10-29:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/28/AR2009102804175.html?nav=rss_opinion/columnsNot quite three weeks ago, President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. On Wednesday afternoon, he put his signature on the largest military spending plan in the history of the world.Washington Sketch: A hostile climate for Sen. Inhofe the warming skeptic2009-10-28T04:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-10-28:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/27/AR2009102702845.html?nav=rss_opinion/columnsIt must be very lonely being the last flat-earther.Washington Sketch: Harry Reid, party of one, on the health-care public option2009-10-27T04:00:00Ztag:www.washingtonpost.com,2009-10-27:/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/26/AR2009102602782.html?nav=rss_opinion/columnsWhat Harry Reid did Monday afternoon gave new meaning to the phrase "public option."