Below The Beltway

A very good question, some people who know me might say.
I’m a 37 year old attorney living in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC. Those of you who know Washington know that it is surrounding by an eight-lane highway called the Beltway. My homestead is about 30 miles south of the Beltway, hence the [...]

The 22nd edition of the Carnival of Liberty is being hosted here at Below The Beltway and will appear on November 29th
Submissions can be made to via email to the Carnival of Liberty or through the Carnival Submit Form at Conservative Cat or the Blog Carnival’s Carnival Submit Form. Submissions will be accepted up until [...]

Yep, that’s right, the Carnival of Liberty is 21 now — our little Carnival is old enough to drink now.
Seriously, Carnival of Liberty XXI is up at Left Brain Female. As usual, lots of excellent writing to peruse.

As the big holiday approaches, it is fitting to remember that 2005 marks the 140th anniversary of the first officially proclaimed Thanksgiving, which occurred in November 1865 and was declared by President Lincoln in April of that year shortly after the Confederacy surrendered and the Civil War ended.
David Gerlertner has an excellent piece up at [...]

Eric Cowperthwaite, who founded the ever growing Life, Liberty and Property Community, has established a new group blog called The Liberty Papers.
Eric describes the purpose of this new blog in this post:

The goal is to create a repository of writing and thinking on classic liberal thoughts, theories and ideas on government, politics, individual rights and [...]

When I heard about this on the radio this morning, I thought it was a joke. Unfortunately, it appears to be all too true.
I won’t be surprised if the CD doesn’t fly off the music store shelves, but I’m interested to hear what Donald Trump’s appearance on “The Regis Philbin Christmas Album” sounds like.
Much [...]

From today’s Washington Times, comes news that not every retailer is giving into the Christmas-in-November meme.
At Nordstrom, Christmas comes just once a year. So does Thanksgiving.
The department-store chain hasn’t gotten caught up in the rush to hang lights and garland in its stores for the winter holidays. Instead, Nordstrom has a policy that holiday decorations [...]

I’m not really a video game fanatic, but this is the game that will without a doubt convert me.
If you don’t click on the link, all you need to know is that The Godfather is being turned into a video game.
Yeah, this one will be on the Amazon Wish List

Early this morning, the National Zoo web site was flooded with people looking to be first in line to get free tickets to see the zoo’s newest addition, Panda cub Tai Shin. Within hours, those very seem tickets (which the Zoo was giving away for free) were being offered for sale on Ebay.
It didn’t take [...]

The 12th edition of the Virginia Blog Carnival is up at ImNotEmril. Nothing from me this week, but still plenty of great stuff to read from my fellow bloggers here in the Old Dominion.
Also up today is Carnival of the Magnolias IV, which is up at Everyman Chronicles. Lots of good stuff worth checking out [...]