Liberal columnist Michael Kinsley took a look at the Democratic Party's platform, and found some interesting planks. The platform’s most bizarre promise is a tax break for fathers “who are responsibly supporting their children.” The best-hidden boondoggle is dropped into the second half of a sentence in a general passage about women. “We will invest […]
Massachusetts Maritime Academy to name their training ship to honor the Kennedy family.
From Barack Obama's Berlin speech: That is why the greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another. Right about now I don't think that the Georgians think the "greatest danger of all" is "walls to divide us from one another."
For the mainstream media, supermarket tabloids like the National Enquirer are the strippers to the MSM's prima ballerinas -- it's not that the strippers are doing anything illegal, but it's base and unseemly. Moliere famously likened writing to prostitution: "First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for […]
If you've visited the site in the last hour, you will have noticed some intermittent oddness. It was the result of an upgrade to the latest version of WordPress (the blogging software that runs Hoystory). At the same time I updated a couple of plug-ins that turned out not to be quite compatible with the […]
I didn't watch the opening ceremonies -- I'm a sports fan, not a "ceremonies" fan. That's one of the reasons that the Olympics, as broadcast by NBC, is too often a disappointment. When they have the World Cup half way across the world, they air the games whenever they actually occur -- whether that's in […]
Al Gore's got a new houseboat named "Bio-Solar One. Yes, BS-1. I can't make this up. The boat is a custom-built Fantasy Yacht built specifically for Gore by Bill Austin of Sparta, Tennessee. According to Austin, the engines are bio-diesel fueled and Gore can expect to use about two gallons an hour to cruise Center […]
Sen. Barack Obama's energy plan gets a brutal reality check from The Washington Post editorial board today. The Post first assails Obama's plan to do a meaningless swap of light-crude for heavy-crude in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and then they really lay into him. Meanwhile, thanks to high crude oil prices, energy companies are, indeed, […]
Ezra Levant, former publisher of the ex-Western Standard magazine was acquitted on "discrimination" charges for having the audacity to publish the infamous Muhammed cartoons. He becomes the first person to ever be acquitted by one of these Canadian Human Rights Commissions, but he didn't win. The 11-page government report into my activities is a breathtakingly […]