For the June 6 Special Election for California's 50th Congressional District (disgraced Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham's old seat), Hoystory reluctantly endorses Democrat Francine Busby. Today was the final straw. House Speaker Dennis Hastert's outrage at the FBI search of Rep. William Jefferson's office wasn't bad enough, but now President Bush has ordered all documents seized […]
You've seriously got to be kidding me. Some lawmakers are warning of a voter backlash against members of Congress "trying to protect their own" if party leaders keep escalating a constitutional dispute over the FBI's raid of a representative's office. Yet not long after House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi demanded on […]
For those of you, like me, too young to remember the Winter Soldier hearings, let me summarize: More than 35 years ago, Vietnam Veterans Against the War held hearings in Detroit where veterans testified to all sorts of atrocities and war crimes being committed by American troops in Vietnam. The vast majority of the "testimony" […]
Louisiana Democrat Rep. William Jefferson said today that there are two sides to every story. In response, I checked my freezer and determined that a freak interdimensional wormhole had not been created by the frozen chicken and the hamburger patties had not been replaced by $90,000 wrapped in aluminum foil. Officials on both sides of […]
Former Clinton Secretary of State Madeline Albright has come out attacking President Bush's -- and a lot of other Americans' -- religious faith. "I worked for two presidents who were men of faith, and they did not make their religious views part of American policy," she said, referring to Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, both […]
It's the power that corrupts, not the political party. A congressman under investigation for bribery was caught on videotape accepting $100,000 in $100 bills from an FBI informant whose conversations with the lawmaker also were recorded, according to a court document released Sunday. Agents later found the cash hidden in his freezer. At one audiotaped […]
OpinionJournal.com's James Taranto absolutely nails Rep. John Murtha's latest pronouncement, so I'll quote it extensively. 'In Cold Blood' The Pentagon is investigating whether U.S. Marines committed war crimes in a November incident in which 15 Iraqi civilians were killed in Haditha, Iraq. NBC News reports that Rep. John Murtha, who voted for the war in […]
If the mess that President Bill Clinton left this nation's foreign policy and national security in when he left office wasn't obvious on Sept. 11, 2001, then former Secretary of State Madeline Albright is determined to make sure that you remember it -- just not the way she intends. Albright was selling her book, "The […]
It looks like at least one, unnamed House Democrat will be making an effort to turn the public's focus once again on the NSA surveillance program if Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden is named to succeed Porter Goss at the CIA. According to Time magazine, the anonymous Dem (and there's no reason given for granting […]
Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy admitted Friday afternoon to being a complete mess of a human being. Kennedy told reporters that he's addicted to painkillers and suffering from depression. Kennedy will be checking himself into the Mayo clinic -- for the second time in six months. Kennedy has a problem, and he certainly deserves our […]