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Today's Union-Tribune has some excellent stories on servicemen who were awarded medals for bravery in Iraq this veterans day. Marine Lance Cpl. Carlos Gomez Perez's story can be found here. Don't miss the links in the sidebar for two other stories. Remember these brave men, and the others who didn't make it back today. It's […]

I finished reading Robert Spencer's latest book, "The Truth About Muhammed," last week. (His Web site is www.jihadwatch.org for those who are interested.)I consider myself better informed than most about Islam, but Spencer's primer on the religion's founder taught me quite a bit that I didn't know before. I was rather roughly aware of Islam's […]

Usually the silly season is the one that just ended -- the months leading up to November elections. Earlier today, however, I discovered it is in fact the start of another silly season -- the holiday shopping season. I went to the local Circuit City today to pick up "Gears of War," the Xbox360's newest […]

This week's Time magazine has an interesting little debate between atheist/scientist Richard Dawkins and Christian/scientist Francis Collins. The one thing that struck me about the whole debate was was how Dawkins was willing to assume that there may be millions of parallel universes (the multiverse) that we know nothing about and have no evidence for, […]

Now that the Democrats hold the House, comments like this one from Rep. Nancy Pelosi are going to get more scrutiny. From Fox News' "Special Report with Brit Hume": Major Garrett (voiceover): Asked if it was more important to win or leave Iraq, presumptive Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Fox this: Nancy Pelosi: The point is […]

Just ask Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Connie Schultz, wife of Ohio Senator-elect Sherrod Brown. She notes that virtually every major Ohio daily, including The Plain Dealer, endorsed Republican Mike DeWine over her husband, yet Brown won the election handily. "So many reporters across the state kept coming up to me angry about their newspapers' editorials," […]

Patterico has posted an interesting hypothetical that goes to the heart of much of the abortion debate. Assume the following facts. The fetus is viable. A doctor testifies that the safest method of abortion is to begin the delivery, and then abort the fetus. On cross-examination, he is asked whether delivery would be safer still […]

As of 3:17 a.m., it looks as though my father, Richard "Dick" Hoy will be one of the trustees of the Grossmont Union High School District Board. With the top 3 vote-getters winning seats, Hoy Sr. is currently 2nd behind Jim "Little Dictator" Kelly. Congratulations to Hoy Sr. It looks like the campaign will be […]

There will be a lot more written by everyone about everything in the coming days, so here are some tidbits that are on my mind: If Democrats end up taking the last two up-for-grabs Senate seats (Montana and Virginia) then watch out for the campaign to get Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman to pull a Jim […]

I went to the polls a little later in the day this year than I typically do. When I arrived, the local NBC affiliate was outside interviewing a Hispanic guy in Spanish -- probably over the Escondido mayoral and council races and their recent ordinance that prohibits renting apartments/houses to illegal immigrants. By the time […]