May 14, 2015
The Clinton's Man at ABC

ABC News' chief anchor George Stephanopolous is not a journalist. He's a Democratic operative—never forget that. The Free Beacon reports that the former communications director for President Bill Clinton donated $50,000 to the Clinton foundation from 2013 to 2014. This comes just a few weeks after Stephanopolous aggressively grilled "Clinton Cash" author Peter Schweizer on […]

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May 13, 2015
Politicizing tragedy

At last count 7 people lost their lives last night as an Amtrak train derailed en route from Washington, D.C. to New York City. Before the bodies had even grown cold, their were utterly dishonest and predictable calls on the political left that it was the GOP's fault because they've cut funding from Amtrak over the […]

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May 11, 2015
What watchdog journalism looks like

Associated Press reporter Matt Lee questions Obama State Department flack about why they have "no intention" of examining whether the secret donations to the Clinton Foundation during Hillary Clinton's tenure affected government policy. Unsurprisingly, this is also what a cover-up looks like.

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May 9, 2015
Which economic policies help the lower class?

A former colleague of mine shared this Washington Post Wonkblog article on Facebook. Most of the article is unobjectionable. However, the part that is objectionable is very objectionable. The head and subhead: How growing up poor changes politicians Democrats from humble backgrounds more often vote for economic policies that help the lower class. For Republicans, upbringing doesn't matter. […]

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May 8, 2015
U-T San Diego Sold

NiemanLab has an article out on then-rumored (but now confirmed and  imminent) sale of my former employer, the U-T San Diego (formerly the San Diego Union-Tribune) to Tribune Publishing, the owner of the Los Angeles Times, among other papers. The majority of the article is your standard inside-baseball media story, but every time something like this happens you feel […]

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May 4, 2015
Please Excuse Our Dust

Hoystory was moved over to a new, quicker server over the weekend. Because sometimes it seems like the universe just hates me, the move did not go easily. The tool that the hosting service provides would not move the site over as-is. So way too much time was spent by yours truly using ancient hand-crafted […]

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April 29, 2015
Hackety Hack Hack

Let me start of by saying that I don't think there's a single person who gave money to the Clinton Foundation who saw the organization as a charity. No one gives money to the Clintons thinking it's charity, at least, not primarily. It's pay-to-play. It's the same reason NBC gave Chelsea Clinton a $600,000 job […]

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April 15, 2015
What science looks like

I was browsing Ars Technica this morning when I came across this article about allergies. It's an interesting read, but the thing that struck me this: [Ruslan] Medzhitov is currently turning his attention to a question that could change immunology yet again: why do we get allergies? No one has a firm answer, but what […]

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February 25, 2015
Obama's Faith Pt. 2

The original "Obama's Faith" post I wrote nearly 7 years ago. At the time I noted that I am always hesitant to opine on the state of another individual's relationship with God, but a lot of time has passed, truths have been revealed and while I will not pronounce judgment on the status of Obama's […]

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February 25, 2015
Journalism 101

I've said before that the longer I've been out of newspapers and the news business, the more disdain and outright hostility I feel for too many of those who remain in it. It's not petty jealousy. It's the fact that when all I see is the crap they produce and don't deal with them as people […]

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