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Beer Madness Is Back; Vote for Saranac Pale Ale

Last year I watched as my hometown beer nearly made it all the way in the Washington Post’s Beer Madness tournament. While a repeat performance would be tough, I’m keeping my fingers crossed for Saranac Pale Ale to take home the title. Click here to vote in the first round (32 beers) of the Post’s second annual contest.

Al Qaeda Inspires Pentagon to Bolster Online Outreach

When Defense Secretary Robert Gates suggested that al Qaeda did a better job of communicating online than America, the comment didn’t fall on deaf ears at the Pentagon. Jonathan Rick reports that the Department of Defense has responded to the challenge, and documents its progress in a new video.

links for 2008-03-12

• Safe, Legal, and Dishonest - Daniel Allott, American Spectator

  “You wanna’ criminalize women and their doctors and we disagree. …You would want to put every doctor and every mother as an accessory to murder in prison.”

  (tags: abortion hillary_clinton 2008)

• Ryan staffer, once lost in a mall, finds his way on the Hill - Kris Kitto, The Hill

  Matt Lavoie has come a long way from the time he got lost during a trip to the mall with his mom.

  (tags: ithaca_college congress republicans)

Dick Cheney = Darth Vader

Speaking last night at a Heritage dinner celebrating the 25th anniversary of President Ronald Reagan’s missile defense speech, Vice President Cheney had this great line.

You can read the whole speech on Heritage’s blog and watch other highlights on YouTube.