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I know that's an inflammatory headline, but yesterday Senate Democrats decided to hold hostage a bill that passed the House by a vote of 431-1. The bill would create a federal program to store umbilical cords -- which are typically thrown away -- that can be used to successfully treat all sorts of diseases. Why […]

Yesterday, during an interview with Fox News' Brit Hume, President Bush offered the opinion that he believed Texas Congressman Tom DeLay was innocent of the money laundering charges he is faced with in Travis County, Texas. Now the Democrats have voiced their outrage -- and it makes Page A4 of the Washington Post. Democratic leaders […]

I've made this point repeatedly regarding the New York Times editorial page, but it applies to many other newspaper editorialists -- they are partisan, not principled. For the past couple years this has produced hypocrisy on the issue of judicial filibusters. Both the Times and the Minneapolis Star-Tribune -- among others -- have exposed themselves […]

I'm not talking about the football team, I'm talking about the state. I must confess that I haven't spent much time in the state. I lived in Aberdeen, Wash., for nearly two years, and I flew out of the Portland Airport a couple of times. I passed through the state on my way to that […]

For those of you who are wondering: "What can I get Matthew Hoy, my favorite blogger, for Christmas this year?" Well, you can find my Amazon wish list here. Of course, I always accept cash too, and you can use the Amazon or Paypal links on the left if you don't want to bother with […]

Here's another sunset shot from Carlsbad. This time we have a seagull. A couple of updated notes on the Olympus E-500: The high-speed CompactFlash card arrived in the mail yesterday, and I can confirm that using the HQ 1/8 setting, which gives you roughly a 2.5 meg file size, you can take photos at 2.5 […]

John Fund has a blurb in today's OpinionJournal.com Political Diary (fourth item) on the Grossmont Union High School District here in eastern San Diego County. If you want to know what's going on in that district, Fund's piece is a horrible place to start. Let's start with the factual errors. Nonsense, says Ron Nehring, the […]

I long for competitive Congressional elections in this country. Unfortunately, after the 2000 census in California, the Republicans and Democrats got together in a corrupt bargain and made sure to create districts which were "safe" for each party -- cementing Democrat control of the state for the next decade and making it difficult/impossible for moderate […]

Good riddance to bad rubbish. *UPDATE* Story here.

About this time two years ago former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean was leading the race for the Democrat nomination for president and trying to broaden his appeal by touting his religious beliefs. I don't know about the state of Dean's relationship with God, but whatever it is, he didn't represent it well publicly. When chided […]