Below The Beltway

A misbehaving plugin that I installed this afternoon decided to take the comments and trackbacks and post them as individual posts. I was able to deactivate the plugin before it caused too much damage, but it still resulted in about 500 posts that need to be deleted. I’ve got all but 300 of them deleted [...]

After 2005’s triple threat of Katrina, Rita, and Wilma, the experts all issued dire warnings for the 2006 hurricane season. We’re in for another bad year, they said. We’re in a cycle where storms are going to get progressively more powerful, they claimed. New Orleans could only be the beginning, they warned…..also mentioned as being [...]

The JonBenet Ramsey case has been a prime example of media overkill from the beginning, and now that a suspect is under arrest in the case, the obsession is so intensive at the three cable news networks that it feels like we’re back in late 1996 again.
The latest development ? We all know that John [...]

It happens almost every Presidential election cycle. One party, either the Republicans or the Democrats, puts forward a primary plan that challenges New Hampshire’s role as the host of the nation’s first primary. In the end, the plan usually gets shelved, but that doesn’t stop someone from trying again in four years. This time, it’s [...]

As the American auto industry continues to flounder in its competition with overseas heavyweights such as Honda and Toyota, people are beginning to realize that it isn’t that easy to define an “American” car company anymore.
Sen. Lamar Alexander has backed a measure to outlaw burning of the American flag and supported a move to recognize [...]

After out-scoring the Red Sox 26-15 in last night’s doubleheader, the Yankees pummeled Boston again, beating the BoSox 13-5 this afternoon at Fenway:
BOSTON (AP) — Johnny Damon again punished his former team, hitting three doubles and sparking a five-run, tie-breaking rally in the sixth to help the New York Yankees beat Boston 13-5 on Saturday [...]

Newt Gingrich appeared on Bill O’Reilly Thursday night and called the cease fire deal that ended the Israel-Hezbollah war a defeat for the United States and Israel, and a victory for terrorism:
O’REILLY: Continuing now with FOX News analyst Newt Gingrich. Nobody I know thinks that the United Nations force and the Lebanese army is going [...]

There is a Republican candidate in Connecticut’s November General Election for Senate, put it doesn’t look like alot of Republicans will be voting for him:
Facing Senator Joseph I. Lieberman?s independent candidacy, Republican officials at the state and national level have made the extraordinary decision to abandon their official candidate, and some are actively working to [...]

The best season the New York Mets have ever had happened in 1986, when they won a team record 108 games and went on to beat the Boston Red Sox in one of the most memorable World Series’ ever. Twenty years later, most of the stars from that legendary team will gather at Shea Stadium [...]

Following up on their No. 1 position in the USA Today pre-season Coaches Poll released earlier this month, the Ohio State Buckeyes are also No. 1 in the pre-season Associated Press Poll:
NEW YORK — When Troy Smith, Ted Ginn Jr. and the rest of Ohio State’s blazing Buckeyes were last seen on a big stage, [...]