I just got a kick out of the double standard the media has for anonymous sources. President Bush has discovered bloggers. Iraqi bloggers. Bush – a man not known for his love of the working press, and certainly no fan of anonymous quotes – cited two Iraqi bloggers yesterday in a speech asserting that his […]
Michael Waldman and Justin Levitt of the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law have an op-ed piece in today's Washington Post puncturing the "myth" of voter fraud in Washington State's 2004 gubernatorial election. Or consider Washington state, where McKay closely watched the photo-finish gubernatorial election of 2004. A challenge […]
The post asking for prayers and goodwill for Tony Snow was visited by a hate-filled leftist who bravely identified himself as Mr. Doe. Here's a few informative bits about Mr. Doe: He's apparently from the San Francisco area (big surprise) He found Hoystory by using blogsearch.google.com and the search terms "hate tony snow" The IP […]
Since perhaps the beginning of time, and certainly most of American history, ambassadorships to certain nations have been used as political payback to a president's supporters. While career diplomats can rise to the ambassadorships of nations like Guinea-Bissau, if you want to be ambassador to, say Belgium, then your best bet is to help get […]
Washington State's associate climatologist has been canned because he dared point out that a commonly cited number on the decreasing snowpack in the Cascades was bogus.
Tony Snow's colon cancer has returned and spread to his liver. Pray for him. If there's any doubt that the left is full of hate and vitriol, you only need compare the heartfelt sympathy extended last week to Elizabeth Edwards by people of goodwill of all political stripes when it revealed that her cancer had […]
You've heard by now that a top aide to Sen. James Webb of Virginia was arrested Monday after he was caught taking a loaded handgun along with two additional clips of ammunition into a Senate office building. The aide, Phillip Thompson, has said the handgun belongs to Webb and that he had been "safekeeping" the […]
Just got back from seeing "Shooter," based on author Stephen Hunter's book "Point of Impact." It goes without saying really that the book is better. It had been nearly a decade since I'd read Hunter's book, so I picked up a copy of it and read it last week. It took me less than two […]
It's hard to believe that Andrew Sullivan was once a sane man. He's not anymore. On the 15 British sailors and marines that were kidnapped from Iraqi waters by Iranian troops, Sullivan had this to say: The first strategic crisis created by the Bush-Cheney torture regime is now occurring. Blame America first, Andrew. Of course, […]
Last week, House Democrats (and two Republicans) voted through a supplemental defense bill that included a deadline for withdrawal from Iraq and more than $20 billion in pork projects. (Fourteen Democrats voted against the measure, seven because it continued funding the war and seven because the measure was wrong.) The entire process was despicable and […]