Below The Beltway

John Fund has a thought provoking article in the Wall Street Journal calling for term limits on Supreme Court Justices. I think he has a point. As I’ve said before, I think there is something wrong with life tenure for Supreme Court Justices when it means that someone appointed 30 years ago is still on [...]

Yes, its true, the DC area is in the middle of a heat wave. It is 11pm as I write this and the temperature has yet to drop below 85 degrees and it looks like things are only going to get worse over the next several days.
There really isn’t anything good that can be said [...]

Lance Armstrong won his 7th consecutive Tour de France. Not only is this a great story because of who he is and what he did, but it has the added benefit of probably pissing the French off even more.

I drove over to the vetrenarian’s office with Kellie this morning to pick Riley up from his weekend of sugery and being kept at a kennel. I referred to it as Operation Liberate Riley.
We had learned as early as Friday afternoon that he had made it through the surgery with flying colors and he was [...]

Somewhere out there is a recently graduated law student studying for the bar exam, a two (or sometimes three) day ordeal which begins in nearly every state tomorrow.
Its been 12 years since I drove down to Roanoke, Virginia and took the Virginia Bar Exam. I have no real recollection of the test itself at this [...]

Every now and then you find a story about a politician so wrapped up in themselves that they will use any opportunity they can find to advance their career or agenda. This story from the Pittsburgh area, though, is one of the worst I’ve seen in a long time.
The family of a Marine who was [...]

And all hell breaks loose apparently.
On Saturday, there was the terrorist attack on Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. This is the second time in less than a year that this tourist area has been attacked like this. The motivation of the attackers is obvious — to drive away tourism and weaken the government of Egypt.
At nearly the [...]

More wisdom from Ms. Jane Fonda.
Can anyone say Baghdad Jane ?

Forget about the jury trial I mentioned this morning. When I got back from Court this morning, there was a message from the other side’s attorney and when I spoke with him, he advised me that his client had filed for bankruptcy protection on Friday. For the uninitiated, this means the trial is off.
Normally, a [...]

Stephen Green over at Vodkapundit has this lovely tale about the AFL-CIO’s committment to democracy. Which just makes this story all the better.