Using the vast financial resources of hoystory.com, I was able to take a recent trip to Cuba and I was allowed to interview one of the al Qaeda prisoners at the Camp X-Ray. "What's your name?" I asked. "Abdul Abdullah, but you can call me by my legal name," he said. "What's that?" "Tom Jones." […]
One of the advantages of living on the West Coast is that you can start reading the next day's Washington Post and New York Times at 9 p.m. It's not quite an afternoon paper, but it's close enough. In tomorrow's New York Times, columnist and former Enron hack Paul "Line 47" Krugman assails any move […]
The New York Times has a science article today on scientists and science fiction writers brainstorming on what it would take to send people to a planet orbiting one of the closer stars. In Dr. Moore's rendition, all recruits for an interstellar odyssey would be guaranteed the opportunity, though not the requirement, to marry and […]
Communism failed because government central planning doesn't work. After watching Senate majority leader Tom Daschle's performance on "Fox News Sunday," I'm glad that he has little say in the direction the U.S. economy takes. SNOW: Now, a couple of months ago, you gave an economic speech, and you talked about the president's tax plan. Let […]
Even after leaving office, the Clinton administration had a little trouble with Indian tribes. Back in 1999, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt was the focus of an investigation on whether campaign contributions to the Democratic party had influenced an Interior Dept. decision to deny a tribe formal recognition. The "tribe" in question had been seeking to […]
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The Secret Service is losing some of its luster lately. The division of the Treasury Department long tasked with protecting the president, vice-president and other important government officials, was glorified in movies like Clint Eastwood's "In the Line of Fire" and Nicholas Cage's "Guarding Tess." Last week in Salt Lake City, one of the agents […]
I missed this in Friday's Washington Post but stupidity has returned to the paper's editorial page. Early Friday I wrote about how back in December, Democrats and Republicans had come to an agreement on election reform, but that this week Democrats backed out by attempting to water down a very basic provision to prevent voter […]
Boy are they going to be surprised: A story in today's New York Times on early Islam shows (surprise!) that the Koran has been mistranslated for centuries. A case in point is the famous passage about martyrs (why they consider people who commit suicide by blowing up innocent people martyrs I'll never figure out) receiving […]
Just in case you thought Chinese President Jiang Zemin was telling the truth when he said that people in China were free to worship as they please, there's word that the Chinese government feels threatened by an old folks home. China cut off power and water on Friday to a group of elderly Christians, detained […]