Below The Beltway

There are now hosting slots available for the Carnival of Liberty through July 31st. As you can see, there are still several dates open; if you’re interested in hosting, leave a comment or send me an email.

Carnival of Liberty XLI - April 18: hosted by Left Brain Female
Carnival of Liberty XLII - April 25: hosted [...]

Bob Sheppard has been the public voice of the New York Yankees for more than 50 years and hasn’t missed a home opener since 1950. Unfortunately, he’s not at Yankee Stadium today as the Yanks face the Royals.
NEW YORK (AP) — Public-address announcer Bob Sheppard’s authoritative voice was missing from the New York Yankees‘ home [...]

Carnival of Liberty 40 is up at Homeland Stupidity. As always, we’ve had a great selection of contributions this time around and Mike did a great job hosting. Go check it out.
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Thanks to some server problems at LRE Hosting, it looks like the blog was down for about the past twelve hours. Things seem to be back to normal now.

Ed Driscoll has his first Podcast up today, and the guest of honor at the first interview was none other than Vodkapundit Stephen Green. I can honestly say that Steve’s blog is my own inspiration for blogging……although, like Ed, I really am more of a Gin connoisseur.

Its hard to describe Elizabeth Kostova?s The Historian in just a few words. Its part tale of the macabre as it unfolds the story of the hunt for the apparently-not-mythical Dracula, part travelogue as the author takes us through various parts of Western and Eastern Europe over a time frame stretch from the 1930s to [...]

Apologies for the light blogging over the past week or so. I’ve been busy at work and tired when I get home, not to mention not completely inspired to write much of anything. This past weekend, Kellie and I took a trip up to New Jersey to see my Dad, who had a birthday last [...]

Good morning and welcome to the 31st edition of the Virginia Blog Carnival, hosted for the first time here at the new home of Below The Beltway. The Carnival was born in September 2005, thanks largely to the inspiration of Chad Dotson at Commonwealth Conservative, who describes the idea behind the VBC in this post. [...]

Stephen Green links to yet another person giving up on the Libertarian Party
I can’t say I disagree. I haven’t voted for a Libertarian since Harry Browne ran for President in 2000, and I don’t see any reason that I’ll change that practice anytime soon. What a libertarian should do, though, in the face of a [...]

This was supposed to have been the year of Barry Bonds. Not only the year that he would surpass Babe Ruth’s home run record, but, perhaps, the year he would surpass Hank Aaron to become the all-time home run leader. Instead, he finds himself shrouded by doubt and suspicion as allegations coninute to surface about [...]