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America, Get Ready to Party!

Conservativa — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:32:56 +0000

America gets ready for its birthday party. This photo was taken last week on the steps of the U. S. Capitol, looking down the Mall at the Washington monument. You can see tents going up in preparation for the huge concert and fireworks festivities celebrating Independence Day.

The concert will be televised on the 4th, 8-9:30 p.m. Eastern.

Photo details: Nikon D4o, ISO 800 (dope slap - should have put it back to 200), 55mm, 1/800 at f/14, which happens when you have the ISO set up way too high…

Random Capitol Architecture

Conservativa — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:49:48 +0000

Ceiling detail from downstairs in the U.S. Capitol. Photo details: Nikon D40, 40mm, ISO 800, 1/20 at f/5.6.

Random Capitol Ornament

Conservativa — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:41:40 +0000

Was in D.C. Wednesday. This is a photo of a light fixture in the basement of the Capitol. The image is heavily Photoshopped - it began life as a dark bronze color. Nikon D40, ISO 800, 1/20 at f/5.6, 55mm.

NeW Blog, New Conference

Conservativa — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:41:01 +0000

NeW, or the Network of Enlightened Women, have started a blog, and it’s looking good. NeW is an organization for conservative university women. It began as a book club at UVa and now has over a dozen chapters. Friday June 27 they are having their national conference, with keynote speaker Danielle Crittenden.

Check out the NeW blog - if they keep up the quality of writing they have started with, the blog will soon be a must-read for conservatives in general and conservative women in particular.

Iraqi Freedom Plates

Conservativa — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:24:14 +0000

Va Patriot at Virtucon notes that, as promised, Del. Bill Janis has introduced legislation to authorize the issuance of special license plates for veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

The MySpace page for the Iraqi Freedom Veteran Plate Project is here.

Republicans Get Energy

Conservativa — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:20:12 +0000

Republican races from presidential to state are realizing that energy is the issue this year. President Bush speaking in the Rose Garden yesterday. John McCain speaking yesterday. Common sense from Jim Gilmore. Del. Chris Saxman will be introducing legislation in Virginia’s Special Session “that will dedicate all future revenues and royalties that are paid to the Commonwealth as a result of offshore natural gas and oil drilling to the Transportation Trust Fund.”

Congressman Eric Cantor (photo) blogs about it here.

Some excellent thoughts and questions from the incomparable Victor Davis Hanson here.

This issue can be a winner for Republicans, since it goes from the everyday (putting gas in your car) through national defense.

Photo details: Nikon D40, 150mm, ISO 400, 1/100 at f/7.0.

Too Good Not to Share

Conservativa — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:59:53 +0000

Citizen foils bank robbery. Arguments break out in the comments, but police probably will not charge the citizen.

Cantor for VP

Conservativa — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:32:28 +0000

More Rep. Eric Cantor for Vice-President talk, this time from the New York Post. Count me in!

In this photo, Rep. Rob Wittman (at left) has a word with Cantor. Photo details: Canon EOS5D, 200mm, ISO 3200, 1/60 at f/2.8.

Free Speech Notes: Yemen, Canada

Conservativa — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:59:00 +0000

Blogger Jane Novak (intro to her at this BD article) has been working on the case of Yemeni journalist Abdul Karim al-Khaiwani. Now see-dubya at MichelleMalkin.com reports that al-Khaiwani has been sentenced to six years of hard labor. His crime? Reporting the news. It could easily have been a death sentence.

Speaking of freedom of the press, anyone who writes in public should keep an eye on things… not in Yemen… in Canada. Read about this absurd and scary tribunal, after which

a group of provincial human-rights commissars will decide whether or not National Review’s incomparable Mark Steyn and the largest-circulating magazine in Canada, Maclean’s, will be fined or otherwise censured for printing an excerpt from Steyn’s book, America Alone.

National Review editorial here.

Most Important Photo of the Day

Conservativa — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:00:11 +0000

Not here - over at the Jefferson Mammoth. Go see. Remember.