Hoystory.com

I hope you have a wonderful Christmas holiday. Here's a couple of things for you to read on this day. In the You-Thought-You-Had-It-Bad department, Slate rounds up the worst corporate gifts/parties/bonuses. With evidence that there may be liquid H20 on Mars -- and therefore life -- do you think it's really wise to put a […]

Another Emory University professor has finally had his eyes opened by former President Jimmy Carter. A former president whose legacy has rested on bringing about peace between Arabs and Jews has turned his back on that to become a partisan. A man whose Christian values made him see both sides in a tragic conflict has […]

Durham County District Attorney Mike "Prosecutorial Misconduct" Nifong has dropped first-degree forcible rape charges against three Duke lacrosse players. According to the dismissal form, investigator Linwood Wilson interviewed the accuser on Thursday. "The victim in this case indicated that, while she initially believed that she had been vaginally penetrated by a male sex organ ... […]

I found the Fark headline pointing to this sappy story hilarious. Man loses 125 pounds of unwanted weight in order to become a cop, then gets it right back by getting married two days later

I'm sure you're familiar with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweep last week that netted more than 1,000 illegal immigrants working at Swift & Co. meat-processing plants last week. Well, apparently those jobs weren't among the ones Americans won't do -- people (most of them apparently legal residents) were lined up out the door to […]

Former Clinton administration national security adviser Sandy Berger Burglar pleaded guilty last year to charges that he stole classified documents from the National Archives. He was fined $50,000 and lost his security clearance for three years (just getting them back in time if a Democrat wins the White House in 2008). Wednesday, the inspector general's […]

Novelist Pat Conroy is a graduate of the Citadel and spent the Vietnam years protesting the war. Now, unlike too many others, he's come to realize that his actions in protesting that war were wrong. Now, at this moment in New Jersey, I come to a conclusion about my actions as a young man when […]

David Zucker of "Airplane!" fame has produced another ad, this time on the Iraq Study Group's "plan" to get Iran to "help" us in Iraq. This time, thankfully, there's no scary looking Madeline Albright clone.

There's too many black Americans -- predominately Democrats -- who honestly believe that if you don't hew to the liberal/victimhood political line, then you're somehow not a "real" black person. (The "oreo" slur is a perfect example of this.) This belief can have the occasional effect of making liberal blacks sound a lot like white […]

Voice of San Diego has an article on some of the Union-Tribune staffers who are leaving the paper. The article mentions arts writer Preston Turegano's final column that was apparently spiked. You can find a copy of the column here.