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From Tim Graham over at National Review's "The Corner:" Say Katie! Say Katie! [Tim Graham] On Good Morning America this morning, ABC's Charles Gibson hammered the CEO of Conoco Phillips with questions from the left. It felt like a 1970s hangover, like Gibson should have been wearing a cardigan, using a southern accent, and worrying […]

The military last week found some outtakes from a propaganda video released awhile ago by the head of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Musab Al Zarqawi. In the outtakes. In a press conference, Zarqawi was seen on video firing an M249 SAW (Squad Automatic Weapon). This is a light machine gun. The gun weighs about 15 […]

When I turned in my timecard early this morning, I had worked 58 hours this past week. Considering that fact, you're all lucky that Hoystory didn't go dark for much of the week. OK, you're not lucky, I'm a news/blogging junkie and couldn't help myself. After all, with the nasty cold (which I'm almost over) […]

The name isn't familiar. Neither is her face to the overwhelming majority of Americans. Atwar Bahjat was one of Iraq's new breed of television journalists. In a country experiencing a free press for the first time in decades, newspapers have been experiencing a boom that American newspapers can only dream of and government run television […]

It looks like at least one, unnamed House Democrat will be making an effort to turn the public's focus once again on the NSA surveillance program if Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden is named to succeed Porter Goss at the CIA. According to Time magazine, the anonymous Dem (and there's no reason given for granting […]

Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Kennedy admitted Friday afternoon to being a complete mess of a human being. Kennedy told reporters that he's addicted to painkillers and suffering from depression. Kennedy will be checking himself into the Mayo clinic -- for the second time in six months. Kennedy has a problem, and he certainly deserves our […]

The Senate Judiciary Committee next week will return to the job of getting President Bush's judicial nominees confirmed. First up will be Brett Kavanaugh, a well-qualified candidate who has become a Democrat target because A) he works for Bush and B) worked for independent counsel Kenneth Starr during the Whitewater investigation that led to President […]

First you had Rep. Cynthia McKinney slugging a Capitol police officer for daring to stop her after she bypassed a security checkpoint while not wearing the pin that identifies her as a member of Congress. Then, early this morning, Roll Call reports that Rep. Patrick Kennedy nearly hit a Capitol Police cruiser and instead smashed […]

This is just obscene.

National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru has a short post on The Corner pointing out the decision by the D.C. Circuit which allows terminally ill patients to use non-FDA approved drugs. I can't improve on Ponnuru's succinct take: "Right policy, wrong branch of government."