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Archive for April, 2009

Jeff Frederick’s Day Of Reckoning

by Doug Mataconis @ Saturday, April 4th, 2009. Filed under Virginia, Virginia Politics

By the end of the day today, the fate of one man, and the entire Republican Party of Virginia, will be clearer:
From the moment Jeffrey M. Frederick plunged into politics, he impressed people as a young Republican in a hurry. Now, Frederick, who was only 32 when he seized the top spot in the Republican [...]

The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, April 3rd, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, China, Europe, Foreign Affairs, France, Japan, Politics, Russia, Saudi Arabia

Sleep well tonight America, for the fate of the world rests in the hands of these men:

H/T: Vodkapundit

Frat Boys v. Anti-Gay Bigots

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, April 3rd, 2009. Filed under Humor

The absurdly anti-homosexual Westboro Baptist Church paid a visit to the University of Chicago this week.
Apparently, they didn’t count on running into these frat boys:

Heh.
H/T: The Pajama Pundit

Ron Paul On The Budget, The Deficit, And The G-20

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, April 3rd, 2009. Filed under Economics, Politics, Ron Paul

Lenin Gets It In The End

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, April 3rd, 2009. Filed under Humor, In The News, Russia

You can’t help but appreciate this:
One of Russia’s most famous statues of Vladimir Lenin has been bombed, leaving the Bolshevik revolutionary with a gaping hole in his rear.
The bronze statue, in the city of St Petersburg, was badly damaged before dawn on Wednesday, when the blast blew a hole in Lenin’s coat.
No-one was hurt in [...]

1,000,000 And Counting

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, April 3rd, 2009. Filed under Blogging, News About The Site

Just before 3:00pm EDT today, Below The Beltway got it’s 1,000,000th visitor since moving to it’s own domain on April 1, 2006 when someone from Schaumberg, Illinois came to this post:

The reason the number says 1,045,892 is because that includes the 45,892 people that visited between July 4, 2005 and March 31, 2006 at the [...]

Gay Marriage Bill Advances In Vermont

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, April 3rd, 2009. Filed under Gay Marriage, Individual Liberty, Politics

Vermont already has civil unions, but there’s a bill that result in full marriage equality making it’s way through the state legislature:
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — After impassioned pleas from gay and lesbian legislators sharing their own love stories in front of hundreds of partisans packing the chamber, the Vermont House on Thursday advanced a bill [...]

The Bush-Controlled Treasury Department Extorted Banks To Participate In TARP

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, April 3rd, 2009. Filed under Credit Crisis, Economics, George W Bush, Politics

Judge Andrew Napolitano says that the answer is yes:
I recently met with the Chair and CEO of one of the country’s top 10 bank holding companies. His bank is worth in excess of $250 billion, has no bad debt, no credit default swaps, no liquidity problems, and no subprime loans. He told me that he [...]

Ron Paul On Obama’s Budget

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, April 3rd, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Politics, Ron Paul

Ron Paul’s floor speech during the debate on President Obama’s budget plan is worth watching:

Iowa Supreme Court Rules Gay Marriage Ban Unconstitutional

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, April 3rd, 2009. Filed under Gay Marriage, Individual Liberty, Legal, Politics

It’s bound to set off yet another political fight, but the Iowa Supreme Court today declared that state’s ban on gay marriage unconstitutional:
DES MOINES — Iowa became the first state in the Midwest to approve same-sex marriage on Friday, after the Iowa Supreme Court unanimously decided that a 1998 law limiting marriage to a man [...]

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