Below The Beltway

Dan Melson at Searchlight Crusade stepped in at the last minute and is hosting this week’s Carnival of Liberty. Included this week are my post about the impact of the slow-growh movement on housing prices and my post from The Liberty Papers about the differences between libertarians and conservatives. Dan came up with a unique [...]

In an effort to actually make something productive of this little blog, I’ve decided to go ahead and sign up for Google’s AdSense program. Right now, you should see text links running along the top of the page but I want to change that so that the ads run in a box on the sidebar. [...]

Quite obviously, nothing was posted yesterday —- for whatever reason I wasn’t really feeling that great and it was all I could do to stay awake for a good part of the day. I feel fine today but not inspired to write anything at the moment. Perhaps there will be something at lunchtime, perhaps not. [...]

Its my first full weekday as a member of the Old Dominion Blog Alliance, so I decided to spend some time this evening reading through the excellent writing of some of my fellow Virginians. Not surprisingly, there is much to commend itself. What follows are the highlights of the evening.
At Sic Semper Tyrannis, Addison highlights [...]

Today’s Washington Times tells a story that brings home, quite literally, the costs that government regulation impose on society.
Escalating prices that have made houses unaffordable for many people in Washington are mostly the result of homeowners using political and regulatory means to block construction of new housing, economic studies show.
The so-called “slow growth” movement has [...]

Good morning and welcome to the 15th edition of the Virginia Blog Carnival, hosted this week here at Below The Beltway. As its name suggests, this carnival is devoted to submissions, on virtually any subject, from bloggers living in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and what a fine group of bloggers this state has produced if [...]

Added to the sidebar today, you will find the logo and blogroll of the Old Dominion Blog Alliance, a group of Virginia bloggers to which I’ve been as a member as of this week. I already have three OBDA members on my personal blogroll and will likely be adding more in the near future.
In the [...]

This is just a reminder to Virginia bloggers out there that I will be hosting the Virginia Blog Carnival next week. Submissions are due by 6pm Sunday and instructions on how to submit can be found here.

Via Hit & Run comes the news that R.W. Bradford, the editor and founder of Liberty Magazine, has died after a battle with lung cancer.
For those of you unfamiliar with it, which is probably many, Liberty is a libertarian magazine started by Bradford in 1987. In its 18 years its covered pretty much any topic [...]