Below The Beltway

As Congress’s August recess quickly approaches, it seems unlikely that anything will happen before then to the bill currently before the Senate to give the District of Columbia voting representation in Congress:
Key lawmakers said yesterday that the Senate probably will not take up the D.C. vote bill before its summer break, dealing a blow to [...]

Back on July 13th, Delegate Scott Lingamfelter had this to say about the then-brewing controversy over Virginia’s abusive driver fees:
[T]he abusive driver fees were part of a larger transportation agreement that passed the General Assembly and was signed by the Governor including, a robust $3 billion bonding package, land-use reform to better empower localities to [...]

On September 21, 2001, President Bush delivered a joint address to Congress and delivered the following message to the government of Afghanistan:
[T]onight, the United States of America makes the following demands on the Taliban: Deliver to United States authorities all the leaders of al Qaeda who hide in your land. (Applause.) Release all [...]

Surrender, but don’t give yourself away

There have been plenty of teases this season, but things have been going really well this month:
KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 24 — The Yankees are doing precisely what they are supposed to do. They are steamrolling mediocre pitchers, taking advantage of a soft patch in their schedule and roaring toward playoff contention.
The Yankees buried the [...]

Can be found at The Liberty Papers, where links are revealed to a biography that finds my first-ever vote in a Presidential election deleted into the memory hole.
Frankly, I’m not sure who to believe in just now.

This time, it’s everyone’s favorite Bible-thumping neighbor, Ned Flanders:

Except, perhaps, to wonder on some metaphysical level how this:

Turned into this:

Newt Gingrich was interviewed by The Examiner and pretty much dismissed the entire Republican Presidential field as unworthy:
Dismissing the GOP presidential field as a “pathetic” bunch of “pygmies,” Newt Gingrich hinted Monday he might step in to beat Democrats Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama.
“If, in mid-October, it’s quite clear that one or more of [...]

CNN held the Democratic version of the much vaunted YouTube debate last night:
CHARLESTON, S.C., July 23 — Democratic presidential candidates shared the spotlight Monday night with ordinary citizens from around the country in a two-hour debate that featured sharp and sometimes witty video questions and often equally sharp exchanges among the candidates on issues ranging [...]