It's always nice to know what your elected representatives think of you. Massachusetts Rep. Martin Meehan, one of a substantial group of Democrats who defeated the Online Freedom of Speech Act yesterday, thinks that bloggers who opine on politics are kinda like child pornographers. "We don't allow child pornography on the Internet. We don't exempt […]
Today's lesson is to never take a major media poll at face value. The latest CBS News poll has President Bush's job approval at a miniscule 35 percent -- that's 4-8 points lower than just about every other poll out there. How does CBS News get such a low number? Real Clear Politics points out […]
The mainstream media is lying about Nadagate and it knows it. Some could argue that it is incompetence, but I'm going to go with lying. Today's Exhibit A is Fox News pundit and NPR "reporter" Juan Williams. During the roundtable discussion on "Fox News Sunday," Brit Hume again tried -- and failed -- to educate […]
Let's play a little Jeopardy! Answer: Roy Neel and Ron Klaine. Question: Who were two of Vice President Al Gore's chiefs of staff? Never heard of them before, huh? Is the loss of the chief of staff of the vice president really a heavy blow to the presidency? If you were to list the people […]
We here at Hoystory would like to welcome Steven "racist" Gilliard and the idiots over at Daily Kos to the real world, where what you say and do can have an effect on how you are perceived by other people. For some background check out these two posts. To sum up: A black, liberal, racist […]
I've long argued that the New York Times editorial page is partisan, not principled. Most recently, the Times bemoaned the failure to throw money at the New Orleans levee system in the wake of Hurricane Katrina -- yet months earlier they had attacked funding for the levees as unnecessary pork. So, today it should be […]
Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald indicted I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby today on five counts related to the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame's name. You can read the indictment here. [PDF document] Libby faces charges of one count of obstruction of justice, two counts of perjury and two counts of making false statements. Here's a few […]
There's supposed to be indictment(s) handed down today in Nadagate -- more commonly known as the "Plame Affair." (That sounds like a title for a Robert Ludlum novel.) The New York Times is reporting that I. Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, will be indicted for allegedly making false statements to the […]
From James' Taranto's "Best of the Web Today" over at OpinionJournal.com, we have these gems from the same speech by Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry. "When they [the Bush administration] could have listened to General Shinseki and put in enough troops to maintain order, they chose not to. They were wrong." "General George Casey, our top […]
A new poll out yesterday claims that if a presidential election were held right now, President Bush would lose to "the Democratic candidate." There's just one problem with this entire formulation -- everyone imagines the "perfect Democrat." That individual looks a little different to each person in that 55 percent and there's no way the […]