Beltway Traffic Jam
Kim and I’ve just gotten back in from our short vacation, a Partner-VP retreat with her firm, Public Opinion Strategies. The return was reasonably uneventful, despite steady rain, except that the onramp to I-295 was closed because some moron trucker his cargo into a bridge this morning, causing a 48-hour closure. Even with the need to turn around and detour onto I-495 (the dreaded “Beltway” that is this site’s namesake) the trip was still reasonably quick.
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Lake Flaccid
When I posted earlier on problems at Woodrum Lake, state Department of Natural Resources officials had assured the public that there was no story there, move along. The DNR had just been checking a gate in the dam to see if it could open and close.
ACLosers, School Board Allowed To Pray
A judge has tossed out a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union challenging prayers at school board meetings in Delaware. The lawsuit was filed against members of the Indian River School District Board of Education, a group that regularl…
New Tracking System Highlights Muslim Ingenuity
Although arrogantly dismissed as a “backward culture” in the West, Islam has a long, proud tradition of innovation and scientific inquiry. Nowhere is the muslim passion for invention more evident than in the many strictures and rules that…
How Flexible Spending Accounts SHOULD Work
The ‘use-it-or-lose-it’ provision of tax-exempt flexible spending accounts really, really irks me. I just don’t get why it is that unspent money should be forfeited at the end of the year. Why should honest, hard-working people be pe…
Pros and Cons of Modern Communication
See if you can follow this:
The Sultan of Brunei (Poliblogger) has a post noting this post by Ann Althouse which addresses this letter to the editor in the New York Times about blogging, cell phones, and face-to-face communication. Got all that? …
Avoid These Five Retirement-Savings Distribution Traps
Yahoo! Finance has a great article on costly mistakes that can hamper your retirement-savings withdrawals. Here’s the situation: ‘People are not aware of the importance of planning for eventual distributions,’ says Ed Slott, a certified public accou…
Somebody Tell the New York Times Where They Can Go
Update: The Washington Times has a great editorial today concerning this subject.
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Great. Just great. So Drudge is reporting that the New York Times has been digging for dirt on Judge Roberts. Nothing new there. Kin…
Punishing Parents for Preventing Drunk Driving
Some legal stupidity punishing responsible parenting.
Army Spc. Davidson Survives 2 IED Blasts
One of many reasons why the mission in Iraq has made so much progress is because of people like Specialist Davidson. He and his fellow soldiers deserve more gratitude than can be expressed in words.
If you would like to contribute more than just words…
Al Qaeda’s Secret Weapon
The Weekly World News reports that an unnamed Al Qaeda insider has come to them with plans for Osama’s next major attack. The terrorist organization has developed and plans to drop “gay bombs” that will detonate and any heterosexual man within 30 mi…
Changes For The Worse
Eternal optimist that I am, I do not believe that there is some lost golden age in American politics that we should be trying to recover. Our best days are ahead of us, not behind us. I really believe that, for all the horrible things happening in th…
The U.S. Was a Terrorist Nation
Terrorism, according to the Globe and Mail, is what the United States did to Japan at the end of the second World War.
Terror Weapon
The Globe and Mail is officiall a filth rag. (via Alan, who has more thoughts on the wrongness of this headline)
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The Congressional Inquisition
IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, TO COMBAT THE RISING TIDE OF RELIGIOUS ORTHODOXY, THE DEMOCRATS GAVE THEIR LEADERS IN THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA LEAVE TO MOVE WITHOUT LET OR HINDRANCE THROUGHOUT THE LAND, IN A REIGN …
The Roberts Confirmation Battle
While the confirmation hearings for John Roberts to replace Sandra Day O’Conner on the Supreme Court are less than a month from their start, the efforts to discredit him have begun. (Some say even before he was named). Confirm Them examines the firs…
NARAL Lies about Judge Roberts
You wonder what depths people will sink to in order to defeat a nominee they fear will adhere to the written words of the Constitution? Here’s one example.
The pro-abortion group NARAL has produced a despicable ad that blatantly lies about Ju…
My views on abortion – looking back
Some of you have either posted or emailed to me requests for me to write about what caused me to change my views of certain issues back in the early 90s and as a result go from being a Democrat to a Republican.
Road Trip! Headed to Nashville for Justice Sunday
Who said this? But that is why I like the blogosphere so much: because I end up talking with people whose opinions often don’t align with mine. The Dreamer has been packing all day. In the morning, we are loading…