Below The Beltway

Hard to believe, but we’ve reached the 41st Carnival of Liberty, which is hosted this week at Left Brain Female. Thanks to Kay for hosting and all the contributors for participating.
Next week’s Carnival of Liberty will be hosted at Peter Porcupine, who also hosted in February, so get those submissions in ! If you’d like [...]

And the results are pretty funny. Check out this week’s edition of the Virginia Blog Carnival, hosted at Riley at Virginia Virtucon who puts a unique and entertaining twist on this week’s collection of posts from around the Commonwealth.
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Eric Cowperthwaite announced on Friday that he’s leaving the blogosphere. The reasons are good, a new job and a new opportunity, but that doesn’t mean he won’t be missed. Eric founded both The Liberty Papers and the Life Liberty and Property Community, which is now 131 members strong, and has contributed much to both over [...]

Apologies for the lack of blogging, but Kellie and I left on Friday for a rather impromtu Easter weekend trip to visit my brother-in-law and his wife, who live outside of Atlanta, GA. It was a long drive down, and back, but not as bad I had expected. We had a great time hanging out, [...]

Yesterday, Kellie and I were presented with an interesting proposals from one of our neighbors. They are the owners of a 10-month old Lhasa Apso, not only same breed as our Riley, but literally the same coloring and everything. Anything, for reasons that I am not entirely clear on, they can’t keep the dog any [...]

The government concluded its portion of the penalty phase of the Zacarias Moussaoui trial today by playing, in full, the recording from the cockpit voice recorder of United Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania on September 11th.
It began with a muted series of thumps from a sharp knife or maybe clenched fists. The sounds were [...]

The Washington, D.C. area greeted last week’s inaugural season of the Washngton Nationals with enthusiasum. High ticket sales were boosted as much by the fact that baseball had finally returned to the Nation’s Capital as the fact that Nationals themselves were playing suprisingly well. Well, its year two of the Nationals saga, and it appears [...]

Others have already posted about this, and I first found it thanks to Stephen Green in this post on Thursday, but Dan Simmons’ recent posting of a short story about a visit from a time traveller from an all-too-likely future deserves everyone’s attention.
An excerpt:
?Your enemies have gathered and struck and continue [...]

This is a bit late in getting up thanks to this morning’s server outage, but better later than never……
There were times during last night’s episode of 24 when I thought I was in the middle of a James Bond movie. It wasn’t so much the plot, and, no, Jack did not stop by an L.A. [...]

Today Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared that the Islamic Republic “had joined the countries that have nuclear technology.”
ISTANBUL, April 11 — Iran has succeeded in enriching uranium to new levels, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday, proclaiming a technical breakthrough that advances both the country’s nuclear program and the international controversy surrounding it.
“I’m announcing officially [...]