Apparently the judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals are a bunch of masochists; they love the repeated beatings laid down on them by the Supreme Court. The latest case is Faith Center Church Evangelistic Ministries v. Glover. Quin Hilyer of The American Spectator explains: In its decision, the 9th Circuit majority determined that […]
It's becoming increasingly apparent that doctors -- psychiatrists especially -- are far too cavalier in prescribing behavior-altering drugs for children. Earlier this month word came down that maybe kids under the age of six shouldn't be given over-the-counter cough medicine. Yet there hasn't been a similar reconsideration on all sorts of other drugs -- or […]
Sen. Dianne Feinstein on "Fox News Sunday" on the eight fired U.S. Attorneys: Six out of seven [sic] of them were involved in public corruption cases. This is in particular my interest. I think before you remove somebody in the middle of a public corruption situation, you ought to be very sure of what you're […]
If you're reading this, then the wonder that is the propagation of the Internet nameservers change has reached you and you're at the new home of Hoystory.com. The kind folks at juicecaster were great about helping move Hoystory off their Web servers, and as soon as the propagation finally hits my own ISP, everything will […]
The Los Angeles Times editorial page editor Andres Martinez has resigned after it was revealed that he was dating a publicist representing Hollywood producer Brian Grazer -- whom he had selected as the first of several guest editors of the paper's Sunday Current opinion section. From a journalistic standpoint, it was a bad call to […]
Al Gore made appearances yesterday before House and Senate committees to talk about global warming. Sen. James Inhofe challenged the Goracle to live up to one of his challenges in his Oscar-winning documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth." At the movie's end, a line reads: "Are you prepared to change the way you live?" Since the movie […]
The three Islamic militants terrorists who beheaded three Christian schoolgirls have been sentenced in Indonesia. Want to take a guess at what the punishment is going to be -- and remember that thieves have their hands cut off in Saudi Arabia and drug dealers get the death sentence in Indonesia. If you guessed 14-20 years, […]
You gotta love Barack Obama -- from CNN's Larry King Live on March 19: (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) OBAMA: And if George Bush doesn't listen, then we're going to make him listen because it's time for us to bring our young people home. (END VIDEO CLIP) (COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) GEORGE BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE […]
Good news from a Massachusetts state appeals court: Cops are allowed to follow fresh footprints in the snow away from the scene of the crime. Second, the NFL may be in serious legal trouble for violating the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. Advice to lawyers: read the law you're using completely before sending out legal documents.
I haven't written about this because it's much ado about nothing -- and that may be an overstatement. The eight U.S. Attorneys are political appointees and serve at the pleasure of the president. He can fire them for any reason -- any. The only way that there is a scandal here is if Bush was […]