Below The Beltway

Vodkapundit’s Stephen Green was live/drunk-blogging the State of the Union and imbiding in a martini or two in the process. Which is, of course, the only way one can handle a political speech in America today.
Some hightlights:
6:52pm Maybe not actually drunk, but I am working on a nicely icy gin martini with my patented “confetti […]

All I know is that I’d really, really hate to be this guy’s defense attorney.
A man who was stopped for driving erratically on a divided highway was distracted because he was looking at pornography, authorities said.
David Kennedy, 33, of Nashville, was charged with felony reckless endangerment after motorist Deborah Dotson reported Friday afternoon that he […]

Its been five months since Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and details continue emerge about the human incompetence that helped make the disaster worse:
WASHINGTON — A ranking Louisiana health official turned down federal offers to help move or evacuate patients as Hurricane Katrina bore down on New Orleans, a newly released document shows.
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Two days before […]

Yesterday, I wrote about ExxonMobil’s record $ 31.63 billion dollar profit for 2005.
What does this really mean, though ? Well, let’s take a look at the numbers:
Exxon Mobil Corp. yesterday reported the highest profit in U.S. history: $10.71 billion for the fourth quarter of 2005 and $36.13 billion for the entire year.
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Exxon’s fourth-quarter profit rose […]

Carnival of Liberty XXX is up at Mover Mike. I haven’t had a chance to read through anything yet, but it looks like we had another great set of contributions. Go check it out.
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Three months to the day after he was nominated by President Bush, Samuel Alito has been confirmed as the newest Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. The final vote was 58-42
I supported the Alito nomination not because I am convinced that he will be a perfect Justice, in fact I am sure he will […]

If there is a bigger waste of time in American political life than the State of Union Address, its hard to think of what it might be. The quadrennial political conventions come to mind, but since they only happen once every four years they are slightly less annoying than this annual display of pomposity and […]

It looks like that lonney left has run out of ideas and is now just making noise like a spoiled child.
Make noise, not war.
Liberal activists — among them graying leftovers from the Vietnam-era antiwar movement — plan to gather near the Capitol tonight, banging pots and pans to drown out President Bush’s State of the […]

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Carnival XXX - January 31: hosted by Mover Mike
Carnival XXXI - February 7: hosted […]

Another Monday, and more blog carnivals to enjoy.
The Best of Me Symphony # 114 is up at The Owner’s Manual. My article from November about the war against Wal-Mart is included in this week’s edition.
Carnival of the Capitalists # 121 is up at phosita. My articles about the rise of China as an economic power […]