Pulitzer-prize winning cartoonist and friend of Hoystory (the latter being much more important and impressive than the former) Steve Breen is working on a new photo/cartoon blog called "Bad Hamster." It features stuff like this: The site is currently undergoing a "soft opening," and I'm officially the first blogger to link to it. Breen hopes […]
The San Diego Unified School District apparently believes there's little difference between Junior ROTC programs and street gangs. Marksmanship training must end on San Diego school district campuses, a split school board decided Tuesday. Critics argued that the training, part of ROTC programs, sends the wrong message when three high school students have been killed […]
California's Democrat-run state legislature and its girly-man Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger have outlined a plan to deal with the states $42-billion budget gap by sticking it to the few people who remain in the state. Vehicle license fees would nearly double, going from the current rate of 0.65% to 1.15% of the value of a car […]
New York Times columnist Nick Kristof was interviewed by The Daily Pennsylvanian and made the following observation about what it's like to live under the enlightened leadership of the great Obama. DP: Are there any issues you would like to see Barack Obama's presidency focus on? NK: It's a tremendous relief to have smart, intellectually […]
First, Oregon proposed tracking drivers using GPS in order to levy a tax for roads, bridges and other assorted infrastructure. Now, Massachusetts is proposing a very similar plan that would embed a tracking chip inside the registration sticker of cars registered in that state. In case you missed it, Big Brother is a liberal and […]
I got done listening to NPR's Intelligence Squared U.S. debate podcast on the motion: "Major Reductions in Carbon Emissions Are Not Worth the Money" on the drive home from work. The debate featured Bjorn Lomborg, author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist" as one of three people arguing for the motion. The debate was very interesting. To […]
Last year, Adm. Eugene Fluckey died at the ripe old age of 93. Upon reading his obituary, I bought his book where he recounts his service commanding the USS Barb submarine in World War II. I finally got around to reading it the past few days, and despite what some may think, Fluckey's matter-of-fact recounting […]
I'm getting really sick and tired of the "create or save jobs" phrasing. It's meaningless, yet no one calls on it. The guy still thinks he's a senator. Was that a eight minute answer to a not so complicated question? You don't filibuster a press conference. Don't even bother raising your hands reporters, Obama's got […]
Here's hoping that we don't follow Great Britain down whatever road it's heading down, because it doesn't look like that society is going to survive a whole lot longer. First, a foster mother has been fired for allowing a 16-year-old girl in her care to convert to Christianity. The carer is a single mother of […]
Partial-birth abortion supporter Ashley Judd is proving that she's as ugly on the inside as she is physically attractive on the outside. Judd, a big-time liberal, has joined with the "Defenders of (some kinds of) Wildlife" to attack Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for that state's wolf-control program. Missing from the video, of course, is context. […]