Below The Beltway

Its time to welcome two new members to the Life, Liberty & Property Community.
Our first new member is Free Constitution where bloggers Stan and Cabe write about he Second Amendment, the Constitution, liberty, and all those other fun things we like to talk about here at the LLP.
Our second new member is Pragmatic Speak where […]

My buddy Raymond reminds me of something I’ve been meaning to blog about several times in the past week.
Apparently, Michael Bolton is back, and he’s singing Sinatra.
In addition to a sign that the end of the world is at hand, this is, I think, absolute proof that American popular music is now suffering in the […]

I’m a little late in posting about this, but I’d like to take the opportunity to welcome my first new member to the LLP Community since taking things over from Eric, and it just happens to be a fellow Virginian.
Rick Sincere blogs at Rick Sincere News and Thoughts and is, I think you will […]

This post will serve as a permalink for those looking for all of the alternative versions of the Life, Liberty & Property Community buttons. Feel free to use whichever one you’d life, and download or link as needed.
First, we have several variations on the traditional LLP Button design:

Next, several buttons reminiscient of the […]

In July 2003, Kellie and I went skydiving together in Central Ohio. It was a first time adventure for both of us, and the thrill was, in a word, incredible. That’s why this story hits a little close to home.
STERLING, Ohio (AP) — A first-time skydiver slipped from her harness during a jump Saturday and […]

In this first book of the American Empire series, Harry Turtledove abandons a pattern that he had followed since the first book in the so-called Timeline-191 series. This time, there is no Second Mexican War, no Great War raging across the North American continent. Instead, this book focuses on the roughly seven year time period […]

Congress established Memorial Day in 1868 to honor the memory of the hundreds of thousands of men killed in the bloody four years of the American Civil War. Since then, it has grown to honor the sacrifice of all of America’s war dead from the Revolution through World War Two, Vietnam, and today in Iraq […]

President Bush has ordered the documents seized by the FBI from the office of Congressman William Jefferson pursuant to a search warrant sealed for 45 days.
President Bush personally ordered the Justice Department today to seal records seized from the Capitol Hill office of a Democratic congressman, marking a remarkable intervention by the nation’s chief executive […]

For the most part, I’ve avoided commentary on the recent immigration uproar. Unlike conservatives, I don’t agree with the let’s-close-the-borders mentality. Immigration has fueled and reviitalized America throughout its history. Albert Einstein was an immigrant. So are many of the most popular players in baseball today. And all of us are the descendents of immigrants…….some […]

I have made no secret of my disdain for the state of America’s manned space flight program. Since the end of the Apollo program, it has been little more than a glorified re-tred of the Gemini program……and at least Gemini had the virtue of being a precursor to a manned mission to the Moon. The […]