Below The Beltway

CNN has a great peace up about Hana, Hawaii and the world-famous Road To Hana
Long before you reach this onetime domain of the Maui ali’i (chiefs), Hana Highway — with its 54 one-lane bridges and slithering 52-mile course — has already made that message clear.
“Slow down, brah,” the road commands. “You’re going to Hana. Type [...]

Hillary Clinton has a request.
Please forget about that impeachment thing:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has a new commandment for the 2008 presidential field: Thou shalt not mention anything related to the impeachment of her husband.
With a swift response to attacks from a former supporter last week, advisers to the New York Democrat offered a glimpse of [...]

I don’t count myself as a supporter of Mitt Romney’s Presidential campaign, but this piece from the Associated Press can’t be characterized as anything other than a smear:
SALT LAKE CITY — While Mitt Romney condemns polygamy and its prior practice by his Mormon church, the Republican presidential candidate’s great-grandfather had five wives and at least [...]

While all of the attention during the final hours of the Virginia General Assembly session was focused on the transportation bill, the Senate and House of Delegates passed a bill aimed at restricting local government’s authorty to use the power of eminent domain:
RICHMOND — After more than a year of work on the issue, the [...]

I don’t care what you do with fois gras, but don’t touch my Thin Mints:
NEW YORK — For much of the country, it’s Girl Scout cookie time again. And this year, all those cookies, not just the Thin Mints and a few others, will come nearly free of harmful trans fats.
The Girl Scouts have marked [...]

Well, he didn’t actually discovery anything, but, still, I’m not sure what to make of this:
Brace yourself. James Cameron, the man who brought you ‘The Titanic’ is back with another blockbuster. This time, the ship he’s sinking is Christianity.
In a new documentary, Producer Cameron and his director, Simcha Jacobovici, make the starting claim that Jesus [...]

Truly funny:

Yesterday, the Virginia General Assembly gave final approval to a law designed to prevent another teenager being forced to undergo a medical procedure when they don’t want to:
Virginia lawmakers passed a bill called “Abraham’s Law” yesterday after agreeing that 14 is the appropriate age for a teenager with a life-threatening condition to have a hand [...]

One of the silliest uses of taxpayer money in awhile comes to us from Great Britain:
Psychics were recruited by the Ministry of Defence to locate Osama Bin Laden’s secret lair, it was claimed yesterday.
Newly declassified documents revealed that the MoD conducted an experiment to see if volunteers could ’see’ objects hidden inside an envelope.
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Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack became the first announced candidate to drop out of the 2008 race today:
DES MOINES, Iowa — Democrat Tom Vilsack, the former Iowa governor who built a centrist image, abandoned his bid for the presidency after struggling against better-known, better-financed rivals.
“It is money and only money that is the reason we are [...]