Now that the New York Times has locked its nutty columnists in the sub-basement known as TimesSelect, the likes of Maureen Dowd, Frank Rich and Paul Krugman have become far less influential in our public debate. This is a good thing, since Krugman continues to just make stuff up. Today's column is a case in […]
If you were watching the networks' coverage of President Bush's speech to the NAACP, you'd be left wondering why he hasn't spoken to the group in 5 1/2 years. According to the Media Research Center, NBC, CBS, and ABC all neglected to mention the proximate cause of Bush's 5-year boycott: The disgusting 2000 ad blaming […]
Rep. Brian Bilbray was one of the Republicans who voted, unsuccessfully, to override President Bush's veto of government-funded embryonic stem cell research. Ramesh Ponnuru over at National Review Online reports that Bibray's vote broke a promise made to pro-lifers during his recent campaign. While I wouldn't put such a campaign lie past Bilbray, I do […]
There are many bills that have passed President Bush's desk in the past six years that he should've vetoed -- the McCain-Feingold bill and many pork-laden spending bills come immediately to mind -- but today the president finally used the veto pen. Bush's veto of federal funding for embryonic stem cell research is the right […]
I haven't written anything on the war going on between Israel and the terrorist group Hezbollah for the past week or so because there's not much that can be said that hasn't been said by someone at some point. On Monday, former CIA director James Woolsey appeared on the Fox News Channel and advocated the […]
Last year, I wrote about the case of Judge Manuel Real of the Ninth Circuit who violated numerous laws in order to keep a woman living rent-free in a home for 3 years. The Judicial Council, which usually rules on cases of judicial misconduct, made the Congress look like a bunch of saints in comparison […]
The Media Blog over at National Review Online has presented readers with a couple of questions regarding the New York Times and their insurgent-loving photographer. 1. For those attacking the New York Times for employing a photographer who would stand by and document the killing of Americans without intervening in any way: Is there anything […]
Imagine for a moment that you're a resident of Northern Virginia during the Fall of 2002. People filling up at the gas pump or just mowing the lawn are being shot dead by an unknown sniper. Then imagine you open the Washington Post one Sunday morning ... and there is a compelling photo of a […]
We here at Hoystory would like welcome the World's Greatest Niece back to California to stay! We'd also like to note that if Uncle Matt had been in charge, you would've been allowed to stay up to watch the rest of Cinderella.
Quite a few years back, Sports Illustrated had a decent-sized article on tennis semi-phenom (she still hasn't won a tournament) Anna Kournikova. Anna Kournikova is very pretty. After reading the article, it was also apparent that when it came to being a human being, she was also quite ugly. Along those same lines, we bring […]