Below The Beltway

As I mentioned earlier, today is Milton Friedman Day. Tonight at 10pm, most PBS stations around the country will broadcast a new documentary about the life and ideas of Milton Friedman called The Power of Choice:
Rising like a phoenix from a troubled past, entrepreneurs have turned Chile?s rich Colchagua Valley into one of the […]

Since today is Milton Friedman Day, I figured it was as good a time as any to note my own personal appreciation for a man who contributed so much to the ideals of free minds and free markets.
I am not an economist, or a political scientist, so this won’t be an examination of Dr. Friedman’s […]

Former Florida Governor, and Presidential brother, Jeb Bush, spoke this weekend at a conference sponsored by National Review devoted to examing what happened to the Republican Party in general, and conservatives specifically in last year’s elections. And, quite honestly, his remarks make one wonder if the wrong son of George H.W. Bush made it into […]

Remembering Challenger

At least that’s the only conclusion I can draw from this recent comment by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
BOSTON — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Friday that she dislikes being “all alone on the court” nearly a year after the retirement of Sandra Day O’Connor.
Ginsburg, who spoke to an assembly at […]

I’ve been a fan of Wordpress since I started using it last April, so I kind of figured that I’d like the 2.1 upgrade. What I really appreciated, though, was, the fact that they decided to name it after my favorite female jazz singer.
You won’t really notice it on the blog-readers side, but there are […]

Senator Joe Lieberman, already an enemy of the far-left for his support of the Iraq War, has said he might back a Republican in 2008:
WASHINGTON — Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 2000 who won re-election as an independent last year, says he is open to supporting any party’s White House nominee […]

It seems wine is becoming more popular in China:
More and more Chinese drink wines, because it’s fashionable and a kind of social status,” said Zhou Ning, market strategy manager of a Beijing-based real estate company whose ads often feature young couples drinking wine or beautiful women lounging with a glass of wine. “We include wine […]

James Brown died a month ago, but his body still hasn’t been buried:
AUGUSTA, Ga., Jan. 24 ? More than a month after the death of the legendary soul singer James Brown, his body still has not been laid to rest, a circumstance that has dismayed his friends and bewildered residents here in the town that […]

Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee has declared his candidacy for the 2008 Republican nomination:
WASHINGTON — Conservative Republican Mike Huckabee, seeking to repeat the success of another former governor from Hope, Ark., said Sunday he is taking the first step in what he acknowledged is an underdog bid for the White House in 2008.
“I think this is […]