An upcoming film apparently has not enough sex, vulgarity and violence. A church-produced film about a school whose losing football team is turned around after the coach turns to God has been slapped with a "PG" rating -- for being too religious. The Reverend Alex Kendrick, who directed and stars in "Facing the Giants," says […]
You know you did it as a kid, and your parents were none too happy when they caught you. Well, an article in today's Wall Street Journal [subscription only] reveal a new danger facing the earth. Imagine the surface of Earth as a giant trampoline that accumulated a slab of ice over the winter, and […]
I shouldn't be surprised, but the couple of conversations I overheard Thursday in the newsroom regarding the assassination of the head of al Qaeda in Iraq were along the lines those going int the more conspiratorial and insane parts of the left-wing Internet. I heard one comment that Bush had known where Zarqawi was for […]
If you've been reading this blog for some time, then you know that I'm of the opinion that it's better for journalism in the long run to finally acknowledge that reporters -- like everyone else on the face of the earth -- are biased and allow the public to take that into account when reading […]
I'm no fan of Ann Coulter. I think she's a bomb-thrower and while I may agree with her on most policy issues, the words and analogies she uses to support her positions too often do more harm than good. So, I'm not going defend Coulter's description of some partisan democrats whose husbands were killed in […]
Last week the Canadians arrested 17 men who are allegedly part of a variety of terror plots. The suspects reportedly planned to storm parliament, behead the prime minister and detonate a fertilizer bomb three times the size of the one that destroyed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Sadly, the state of Canadian journalism […]
It didn't take long for the comment spammers to find the new Hoystory web site. I'm using a spam blocker, so you don't see it, but I also discovered that it's marking some things as spam that aren't. If your comment doesn't show up almost immediately, feel free to drop me a quick note at […]
You'll have to forgive me for not being really enthusiastic about the marriage protection amendment that's not going to make it out of the House or Senate. Yes, it's blatant politics and an effort to get the GOP based riled up. And for those of you with short memories, the Democrats did the same thing […]