The TSA has decided to finally close a huge loophole on its no-fly list, and that's got various Europeans, Mexicans and Canadians up in arms. Before, the no-fly list only applied to certain individuals taking off or landing at American airports. Now the TSA wants to apply the lists for flights that only overfly the […]
Sen. James Jeffords (I-Dairy Compact) has announced that he won't seek re-election. Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you on the way out.
Yesterday's "Best of the Web Today" over at OpinionJournal.com had an item called "Give Me That Old Time Derision." Liberal Democrats are opposed to religion in politics, except when they're for it. "We need to kick the money changers out of the temple and restore moral values to America," Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean […]
The Los Angeles Times has fired reporter Eric Slater over a "flawed" (read: full of lies, including "the" and "and") article on the death of a Chico State student in a hazing incident. If you read between the lines on all of the corrections that have been made to the story, it appears as though […]
Here are a few articles that you may have missed, but are well worth your time. If there's a San Diego equivalent of a political family like the Kennedy clan of Massachusetts, then it's the Inzunzas. Nick Inzunza is the mayor of Chula Vista. His brother Ralph is a San Diego city councilman. Then there's […]
The Catholic Church has a new Pope. The main thing I was struck by as news of the selection of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger made its way across the Internet is the surprise and disdain by some -- Lt. Smash has an incredibly useful collection of links here -- that the cardinals would actually chose a […]
I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the same sort of hyperbole and loose language that made Sen. John Cornyn the focus of so much outrage? Not since the 1960's, when federal judges in the South were threatened by cross burnings and firebombs, have judges been so besieged. Cornyn gets […]
Some of these rules the military imposed on reporters covering the murder trial of Army Sgt. Hasan Akbar -- the man who is "accused" of rolling a grenade into a tent, killing two Americans -- are overboard. I only point this article out, so I can tell a little story, based upon this rule: I […]
The first day has come and gone, and black smoke issued from the chimney indicating that no one received enough votes to be named pope. Using the worldwide reach of Hoystory.com and intrepid reporting, Hoystory.com managed to get the results of the first vote. Of a total of 115 votes -- one per cardinal -- […]
I hadn't intended on addressing the nomination of John Bolton to be U.S. representative to the U.N. a second time, hence the misnamed nature of last week's post. But, as I've continued to watch both talking heads on the cable news programs and verious Democratic pols, I'm mystified by the opposition to him on grounds […]