Below The Beltway

Still adhering to the same slow-growth agenda that led them to pass a moratorium on approval of new rezoning applications in December, the Prince William County Board of Supervisors is now proposing increasing the “proffer” fee that builders have to pay when the build in the county by 35%:
Prince William County officials yesterday proposed a […]

The NFL Draft is in it’s second day. They’re already on Round 5 and yet Troy Smith, who won the Heisman Trophy and led the Buckeyes to winning seasons for three years still hasn’t been selected.

Last fall, after the Yankees were eliminated in the first round of the American League playoffs by the Detriot Tigers, there was about a week of time during which the question of whether Torre would return for the final year of his current contract with the Yankees was very much up in the air. George […]

You know it’s a slow news day in the blogosphere when this is the hot topic of conversation:
To make it on the big screen, you have to give people something spectacular. Something extraordinary. Something like Bart Simpson?full frontal. It happens early in “The Simpsons Movie,” when the animated 10-year-old takes a dare from his goofball […]

After suffering through a losing streak that started last Friday, the Yankees finally found some salvation. And it came in the name of a guy named Ken Igawa:
It is the ultimate sign of Manager Joe Torre?s satisfaction, bestowed only on pitchers whose work far exceeds expectation. When Torre claps on his way to remove a […]

William F. Buckley Jr. on the current state of the War in Iraq:
[B]eyond affirming executive supremacy in matters of war, what is George Bush going to do? It is simply untrue that we are making decisive progress in Iraq. The indicators rise and fall from day to day, week to week, month to month. […]

Later today, the ashes of James Doohan, who played Lt. Commander Scott on Star Trek, will be launched into orbit:
EL PASO, Texas (AP) — If all goes as planned Saturday, the cremated remains of the actor who portrayed “Scotty” aboard Star Trek’s starship Enterprise will sail into suborbital space aboard a rocket launched from the […]

Well, it looks like there may be a Republican challenger to Prince William County Commonwealth’s Attorney Paul Ebert after all, a dark horse candidate is staging a write in campaign:
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, VA ? Republican write-in candidate for Prince William County Commonwealth?s Attorney, Hamilton ?Ham? Sandwich, Esq., has launched his new campaign web site. The […]

Apparently, the French like themselves even less than we do:
PARIS (Reuters) - The French dislike themselves even more than the Americans dislike them, according to an opinion poll published on Friday.
The survey of six nations, carried out for the International Herald Tribune daily and France 24 TV station, said 44 percent of French people thought […]

Polygamous Lesbians Flee Sharia
There really isn’t anything I can add to that.
H/T: Brendan Loy