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Al Gore's new "documentary" has earned $389,000 at the box office at the time of this posting. "An Inconvenient Truth" is a warning about the "evil" of carbon dioxide and the "fact" that Hollywood liberals in their private planes are causing the Earth to turn into a sauna. If you've read Hoystory for any period […]

Sen. John Kerry is still fighting battles he lost long ago. In today's New York Times, there is what can only be described as a puff piece on Kerry's continuing efforts to lose Vietnam in 1971 and win the presidency in 2004. There's no immediate news hook on which to base today's article. The story […]

The good news is that now more than ever, the news media can't get away with sloppy reporting. If you weren't following last week's battle between House Speaker Dennis Hastert and ABC News' Brian Ross, then maybe ABC News can still count you as a viewer. The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz has a succinct summary […]

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, FBI Director Robert Mueller and some undetermined number of senior justice department officials have threatened to resign if President Bush is fool enough to return the documents seized in the search of Louisiana Democrat William Jefferson's Capitol Hill office. Good. Somebody gets it.

Which means its the College Lacrosse Final Four!

Apparently some psychotic "psychic" predicted that a 200 meter high tsunami was going to strike the Atlantic coast yesterday. In an update, the nut has now said that it will strike in a 48-hour window. See what truthout.org has wrought.

Moody's Investors Service downgraded the New York Times debt rating to Baa1. Just for comparison, the financial disaster that is the City of San Diego has its general obligation bonds rated A3. [PDF format] That's one grade higher than the Times.

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 […]

Earlier this week the Union-Tribune published a front-page article that used the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's refusal to list the California spotted owl as an endangered species as a news hook to hit at the Bush administration for listing fewer species than previous administrations. It's not until after the jump that you get a […]

Former Enron bigwigs Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling were found guilty today of conspiracy and wire fraud.