When Bush administration officials pointed to Saddam Hussein's unmanned aerial vehicle program and warned how dangerous it was and how it could be used by terrorists, "smart people" pooh-poohed the claim. Apparently it only took them a few years to realize the threat. It may sound like science fiction, but the prospect that suicide bombers […]
Columnist Mark Steyn has an excellent piece on what will be required to stop the killing in Darfur -- and it's not something that the liberals will like. Here's the lesson of the past three years: The UN kills. In 2003, you'll recall, the US was reviled as a unilateralist cowboy because it and its […]
Today's Union-Tribune has an article on 53-year-old Air Force veteran David Patterson who has sent his medals back to President George W. Bush to protest the war in Iraq. Mailing them via the USPS doesn't have the drama of "pulling a Kerry" -- tossing someone else's medals over the White House fence -- but it's […]
From Tim Graham over at National Review's "The Corner:" Say Katie! Say Katie! [Tim Graham] On Good Morning America this morning, ABC's Charles Gibson hammered the CEO of Conoco Phillips with questions from the left. It felt like a 1970s hangover, like Gibson should have been wearing a cardigan, using a southern accent, and worrying […]
The military last week found some outtakes from a propaganda video released awhile ago by the head of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Musab Al Zarqawi. In the outtakes. In a press conference, Zarqawi was seen on video firing an M249 SAW (Squad Automatic Weapon). This is a light machine gun. The gun weighs about 15 […]
When I turned in my timecard early this morning, I had worked 58 hours this past week. Considering that fact, you're all lucky that Hoystory didn't go dark for much of the week. OK, you're not lucky, I'm a news/blogging junkie and couldn't help myself. After all, with the nasty cold (which I'm almost over) […]
The name isn't familiar. Neither is her face to the overwhelming majority of Americans. Atwar Bahjat was one of Iraq's new breed of television journalists. In a country experiencing a free press for the first time in decades, newspapers have been experiencing a boom that American newspapers can only dream of and government run television […]
It looks like at least one, unnamed House Democrat will be making an effort to turn the public's focus once again on the NSA surveillance program if Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden is named to succeed Porter Goss at the CIA. According to Time magazine, the anonymous Dem (and there's no reason given for granting […]
Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy admitted Friday afternoon to being a complete mess of a human being. Kennedy told reporters that he's addicted to painkillers and suffering from depression. Kennedy will be checking himself into the Mayo clinic -- for the second time in six months. Kennedy has a problem, and he certainly deserves our […]
The Senate Judiciary Committee next week will return to the job of getting President Bush's judicial nominees confirmed. First up will be Brett Kavanaugh, a well-qualified candidate who has become a Democrat target because A) he works for Bush and B) worked for independent counsel Kenneth Starr during the Whitewater investigation that led to President […]