Below The Beltway

Time to get a start on the weekend:

It must be a slow day in the City of Brotherly Love, because Mayor John Street spent a good part of the morning waiting in line for an iPhone:
Donning a white baseball hat and warmup suit — complete with an iPod strapped to his arm — a casual Philadelphia Mayor John Street patiently sat on […]

H/T: Q&O

I wrote back in March over at The Liberty Papers about criticisms of NBC’s “To Catch A Predator” Series. Today, Fox News is reporting that a prosecutor in Texas is refusing to prosecute any of the men nabbed when Chris Hansen and his cameras came to town:
A sting in which police teamed up with “Dateline […]

MSNBC’s Mika Brezinski refuses to talk about Paris Hilton:

On an unrelated note, am I alone in thinking that Joe Scarborough is starting to look more and more like a sleaze ?
H/T: Brendan Loy

Threatened by extinction not so long ago, America’s national symbol is back:
OCALA, Fla., June 28 — Bald eagles, whose numbers dwindled to historic lows in the early 1960s, are again flourishing and no longer need the protections of the Endangered Species Act, Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne announced Thursday.
The big deal seems to be that they’ve […]

Greg Oden has gone from the starting center in the NCAA Championship to the first round pick in this year’s NBA draft:
NEW YORK — Greg Oden is the 1.
The Portland Trail Blazers settled months of debate Thursday night when they chose Oden over fellow college freshman Kevin Durant with the No. 1 pick in a […]

There’s been an interesting-enough-to-blog-about twist to the story of the double murder suicide of “professional wrestler” Chris Benoit.
Apparently, someone altered Benoit’s Wikipedia entry to refer to the murder before the police had discovered the bodies:
ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) — Investigators are looking into who altered pro wrestler Chris Benoit’s Wikipedia entry to mention his wife’s death […]

Contrary to what I had thought a few weeks ago, the Yankees are continuing their slide:
BALTIMORE, June 27 — It feels like falling off a cliff, Joe Torre said Wednesday night after another loss, and the metaphor is appropriate. The Yankees had reached a high point before this trip, but suddenly they are plunging to […]

This week’s edition of Point/Counterpoint is up at The Liberty Papers.
The topic this week in the Constitution. Guest Blogger Derek Hammer takes up the point and argues in favor of the proposition that the Constitution is a living document. I provide a Counterpoint, in which I point out the dangers of allowing the Constitution to […]