Below The Beltway

Apparently our first President was pretty good at making his own whiskey:
[James] Rees [executive director of Mount Vernon] is proud that Mount Vernon is helping showcase our Founding Father’s business career by opening a complete reconstruction of his 75-by-30-foot distillery, which at its peak turned out 11,000 gallons a year of corn and rye whiskey [...]

Britney Spears has left rehab again:
MALIBU, California (AP) — Britney Spears left a live-in rehabilitation facility early Wednesday, less than a day after checking in, according to several reports.
It was the second time in a week that Spears entered a rehab facility and checked out before her first day was finished.
The television news magazine “The [...]

Today’s Washington Post tells the story of a man sitting in a jail in Egypt for doing nothing more than dare to criticize a government institution on his blog:
A former college student, Abdelkareem Nabil Soliman, is sitting in an Egyptian prison, awaiting sentencing tomorrow. His alleged “crime”: expressing his opinions on a blog. [...]

When last we left Chad Vader, he had been fired from his job as night manager at the grocery store.
What will he do next ?

Previous Posts:
Darth Vader?s Other Career
Darth Vader?s Other Career Part II
Darth Vader?s Other Career Part III
Darth Vader?s Other Career Part IV
Darth Vader’s Other Career Part V

There’s been much blog discussion today about this Gallup poll on America’s preferences and prejudices when it comes to Presidential candidates:
PRINCETON, NJ — With arguably the most diverse field of candidates in U.S. history to choose from, Americans will have to decide how comfortable they are electing a person who is not a white Protestant [...]

With yesterday’s announcement of the proposed merger between XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio, and the announcement last month by the Chairman of the FCC that he would oppose such a merger, the battle that will determine whether this merger will go forward has begun, and it will revolve around the question of whether [...]

On Feb. 20, 1962, astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth, flying aboard Friendship VII.

Over at Reason, David Weigel has some questions for the people running for President.

Apparently, the owner of the Potomac Nationals is trying to convince Prince William County to spend pubic money to build a new stadium:
Facing a severe budget crunch and diminishing revenue, a majority of the members of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors say they are unlikely to approve funding for construction of a minor [...]

John McCain, long one of the Bush Administration’s most ardent supporters when it came to the Iraq War, made a speech today blaming most of the current situation there on former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld:
BLUFFTON, South Carolina (AP) — Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Monday the war in Iraq has been mismanaged for years [...]