Below The Beltway

If it wasn’t bad enough that Major League Baseball had suckered the D.C. government into a deal that will result in taxpayers shouldering the cost of building a new baseball stadium for the Nationals, now it looks like would-be Nationals fans won’t be able to watch the team on television very much this season.
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I honestly never thought I’d say this, but Virginia Governor Tim Kaine is actually doing something I agree with:
Today on “Ask the Governor”, Tim Kaine said that he would VETO the anti-smoking bill. He said government should not get involved in such matters and he mentioned business choices.
If true, this is fabulous news and [...]

What were you doing on September 26, 1983 ? Yeah, I don’t remember either. Well, as this story at The Officers Club relates, there is one man who will remember that day for the rest of his life.
On September 26th, 1983, Soviet Army Lt. Col Petrov settled into his command chair at the top secret [...]

Last week, Michelle Malkin reported that her site and others had been subjected to denial of service attacks which appeared to be related to publishing of the so-called Mohammed cartoons that have inflamed protests all across the Middle East. Today, it appears that they may have tried it again.
More information here:
After receiving several threats [...]

As the nation concentrates on what is quickly appearing to be the non-story of the takeover of port management, not security, by a company owned by Arabs, Peggy Noonan relates the story of her recent trip to and from Florida and wonders why nobody is talking about airport security.
First, Noonan concentrates on the absurdity that [...]

In today’s Washington Post, Anne Applebaum notes that today marks the 50th anniversary of an entirely secret, yet incredibly important, speech by former Soviet dictator Nikita Krushchev. As Applebaum explains, it was 50 years ago today, that Krushchev spoke to a closed door meeting of Communist leaders and denounced, albeit selectively, the actions of his [...]

You’ve got to believe that there’s a heck of a alot more to this story.
MIAMI (Reuters) – A Florida man has confessed to bludgeoning his roommate to death with a sledgehammer handle and a claw hammer after an argument that started over an empty roll of toilet paper, authorities said Tuesday.
Yikes. Anger management class might [...]

I make no secret of the fact that I’m an attorney, and a civil litigation attorney at that, but that doesn’t mean I don’t recognize when our legal profession has gone totally nuts. The latest example comes from Austin, Texas, where a man is suing casinos and a drug company he claims are responsible for [...]

John Derbyshire makes this disturbing observation at National Review Online
Reagan came out of an America whose commanding heights, cultural and political, were held by liberals. Yet he was a true conservative, of great principle and conviction. In the later America from which GWB emerged, conservative ideas were much more accessible & widespread, and there was [...]