I believe in the free speech that liberals used to believe in, the economic freedom that conservatives used to believe in, and the personal freedom that America used to believe in.
The Yankees clobbered the Red Sox 14-3 yesterday, thanks in large part to Mark Teixeira:
BOSTON – Those three long balls Mark Teixeira sent over the Fenway Park fences delivered an emphatic message: His early season struggles are over.
Teixeira joined Lou Gehrig as the only Yankees to hit three home runs against the Boston Red Sox, [...]
In a move that was somewhat expected, yet still quite astounding, the Utah Republican Party has declined to pick three-term Senator Bob Bennett as their nominee in 2010:
Three-term Sen. Bob Bennett was driven from office Saturday by anti-incumbency rage and hostility toward Washington, becoming the first victim of the rising discontent.
Bennett was bounced from office [...]
From Reason:
Also worth reading is this story from a year ago debunking a Lancet study from 1998 that purported to find a link between childhood vaccines and autism
With news late today that the head of the Scottish National Party is calling for an anti-Tory Parliamentary alliance, the math in Great Britain has gotten just a little more interesting:
No party has enough seats to win votes in parliament without the support of members of other parties.
The Conservatives are the largest party with a [...]
Another outrageous example of police brutality:
SEATTLE — The Seattle Police Department is conducting an internal investigation into an officer who allegedly roughed up an innocent detainee, and it was all caught on film.
Seattle police detained three people including one Hispanic man in their hunt for possible armed robbery suspects. The video shows a man lying [...]
Via United Liberty comes this interesting talk by the Wall Street Journal’s Jason Riley at The Cato Institute on the topic of free markets and immigration:
You can also watch the full forum, which was held to discuss Riley’s 2008 book Let Them In: The Case For Open Borders:
Verizon is taking the first steps toward what is likely to be the end of printed phone directories:
The residential White Pages, those inches-thick tomes of fine-print telephone listings that may be most useful as doorstops, could stop landing with a thud on doorsteps across New York later this year.
Verizon, the dominant local phone company in [...]
On this day in 1945, 2,076 days after it had started, World War II came to an end in Europe.
[Below The Beltway is proudly powered by WordPress.]
