Two U.S. senators lunched at a local BBQ joint this afternoon as a means to protest a USDA promotion of non-meat alternatives on Mondays.

The liberal blogosphere is atwitter over the recent debut of Red America, a blog unabashedly aimed at educating us decadent coastal types on the finer points of mid-American wisdom. The general point of view among the technorati is that the blog, authored by Ben Domenech, is a response to criticism the Post has received over a perceived liberal bias, specifically in the blog written by Post journalist Dan Froomkin. Froomkin’s White House Briefing focuses on…

Again proving that members of Congress know what’s best for full-time residents of the District, Congressional Republicans have again hatched a plan to use their constitutional authority over D.C. to overturn the city’s stringent, yet overwhelmingly popular gun laws. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tex.) announced yesterday that she had introduced the cynically-named “District of Columbia Personal Protection Act of 2005,” which would overturn the Firearms and Control Regulations Act of 1975, the law which banned…