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This isn't about the Olympics. This is about what to do about Russia's invasion of Georgia and its attempt to overthrow its democratically-elected government. Direct military action is something we should avoid, but the Washington Post's Charles Krauthammer has some substantive actions we can take that can hurt the expansionist Russians. We are not without […]

The dearth of posting this week has been due to my all-too-short summer vacation. I've been doing some home-improvement projects. Nothing major, because I'm not exactly a whiz with power tools. I've done some painting, spackling and general cleaning. Hopefully, it will make the place a little more inviting when I return to my $4 […]

...and it did -- as it tends to do -- they would take credit for it. It was a bad crisis for the world. It required tough words but also a smart approach to call on the international community to step in. And I’m very, very happy that the Senator’s [Barack Obama's] request for a […]

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."

This is funny.

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 […]