President Bush snuck off to Iraq yesterday to eat Thanksgiving dinner with the troops at the Baghdad International Airport. Read his speech here.
President Bush snuck off to Iraq yesterday to eat Thanksgiving dinner with the troops at the Baghdad International Airport. Read his speech here.
The embed program in Iraq is still going on, even though major combat operations have ended. French weekly Paris Match recently had a photographer and a reporter embedded with Baathist insurgents as they attacked a DHL cargo plane. He said Sessini and a special correspondent sent to Iraq, Claudine Verniez-Palliez, had been with the group […]
Those peace-loving "oppressed" Palestinians had Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein collector dolls confiscated at the port in Haifa, Israel. These are being imported because there's a market for them -- simple as that. These evil, murderous, vile monsters are heroes to the Palestinian people because they hate America and they hate Jews. One thing […]
Hope you're having a wonderful holiday. The Hoy-non-free-range turkey was delicious.
National Review's Dave Kopel and Carlo Stagnaro take a look at the economic suicide some European countries would be making if they implemented Kyoto-style emission controls. Dr. Margo Thorning performed a study about four European countries [link requires Acrobat Reader] and estimated that the Kyoto Protocol would have a strong negative impact on the GNP […]
I've already done my monthly obligatory banging of the tip jar, but this isn't exactly that. If you scroll down, you'll notice that Hoystory is now displaying google ads in the left column. I get a few cents each time you click on one of those -- even if you don't buy anything. So, if […]
Some in the Chinese leadership are suggesting giving President George W. Bush "The Thatcher Treatment" over Taiwan. Soon after Sino-British negotiations over Hong Kong's fate began in the early 1980s, late patriarch Deng refused to entertain suggestions by then British Prime Minister Thatcher about alternate ways to prolong Britain's lease over the crown colony. In […]
Islamic interest group(s) play the victim card -- and it doesn't fly. Meanwhile, while Islamic lobby groups and the most distinguished semiotics professors in America are analysing Johnny Hart's outhouse joke, the European Union's Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia has decided to shelve its report on the rise of anti-Semitism on the Continent. The […]
National Review's Jonah Goldberg has an excellent article on the culture wars. If conservatives have such a lock on the culture these days, as Al Gore, Al Franken, and others keep insisting, why don't we just switch sides? The Left can have Fox News, the Wall Street Journal op-ed page, the lavish offices of National […]
President Bush won't be looking to the New York Times editorial page anytime soon for advice on running a successful campaign. After all, the Times endorsed that tree guy, Al Gore, last time -- and we know how that worked out. Anyway, in the interest of being a good corporate citizen, the Times on Sunday […]