Below The Beltway

Congress is rushing to finish up business so that members can get back to their districts and get down to the serious business of begging for our votes. In their wake, they are leaving the usual bunch of stupid new laws, but this proposal strikes me as particularly dumb:
The Senate gave final approval last night […]

The Scarlet Knights of my alma mater are off to their best start in three decades after defeating South Florida 22-20 last night.
TAMPA, Fla. — Rutgers’ stay in the Top 25 was nearly a short one. In the school’s first game as a ranked team in three decades, the No. 23 Scarlet Knights held on […]

I will be hosting the upcoming edition of Carnival of Liberty on Tuesday. If you haven’t submitted something already, here’s your chance to do so. As usual, there are several ways to get submissions in. I will accept submissions that arrive before 8pm Eastern time on Monday October 2nd
1. Via email to carnivalofliberty@gmail.com
2. […]

This week’s edition of the Carnival of Liberty comes to us from One Man Bandwith, written by an American living in China:
The carnival comes to you from China where individual liberties for an elite few abound, while the government still seeks ways to apply social brakes to the fastest changing society in the world. They […]

Its time to open up the Carnival of Liberty hosting schedule again. Right now, I?ll take requests for dates through the end of November, but will go further out if the demand is there.Here?s the schedule (will be updated as requests come in):

Carnival of Liberty LXV - October 3rd:
Carnival of Liberty LXVI - October 10th:
Carnival […]

It hasn’t happened in 30 years, but this week the Rutgers Scarlet Knights are in the Top 25:
No joke. Rutgers is ranked.
The Scarlet Knights, long a college football laughingstock, moved Sunday into The Associated Press Top 25 for the first time in 30 years.
No. 23 Rutgers (4-0), led by tailback Ray Rice, the fourth-leading rusher […]

We got back from our whirlwind tour of Ohio early yesterday evening and, while it was tiring in many ways, it we had a great time visiting with family and friends. The highlight, of course, was watching the Ohio State Buckeyes beat Penn State.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — In about the time it took 79-year-old Joe […]

Kellie and I will be in Ohio this weekend and, among other things, we’ll be in the stands watching the Ohio State Buckeyes take on the Penn State Nittany Lions. Last year, the game didn’t go to well for OSU, but things promise to be different this year, as even JoePa himself recognizes:
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) […]

I grew up in New Jersey in a bedroom community called Piscataway. It wasn’t (and isn’t) all that much different from any other Central New Jersey town, except, perhaps, for the fact, that it was one of the only towns north of Princeton that had an actual working farm. Cornell Farms was a little dairy […]

Bard Warbiany is hosting the 53rd 63rd edition of the Carnival Of Liberty. Go check it out. If you don’t, you’re a freedom-hating statist.