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Today's New York Times op-ed piece by Nicholas Kristof takes President Bush to task for not actively urging an extension of the decade-old assault weapons ban. The assault weapons ban, for the record, is a joke. It is a law that is all about aesthetics -- what the weapon looks like -- not what it […]

The left-wing Democrat surrogate MoveOn.org has come out with an advertisement attacking President Bush for his service in the National Guard. This is no surprise. What is a surprise is MoveOn.org's demand that Bush should somehow censor Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. "George Bush used his father to get into the National Guard, and -- […]

It appears that Service Pack 2, which is designed to help improve security, can also (surprise!) cause various programs not to work. A list of the affected programs can be found here. Some of the programs listed I can understand having problems with the increased security demands of the latest Windows fix -- but Scrabble […]

We already know The New York Times is a liberal newspaper -- the paper's public editor, Daniel Okrent, admitted it just a few short weeks ago. But Okrent also said that he would have to wait until this year's election is over before passing judgment on the paper's political coverage. Well, look no further: Note […]

It appears that a surprisingly large number of Kerry donors haven't been disclosing all that is required by federal election law. There may be nothing to it, but it is worth looking into.

Bowing to demands by grungy, hirsute, perpetual college students, President Bush today announced that he was bringing U.S. troops home. (Those signs did say "U.S. troops out of Germany," right?) This move has been a long time coming. With the demise of the Soviet Union, there is no real foreign threat to Germany. It is […]

Too often the term is an oxymoron. Too many news anchors are in reality just news readers. Of course, if they can read the news, they can read anything -- even if it's written for them by the governor's staff. Bad precedent -- and the fact that their bosses don't seem to be troubled by […]

We here at Hoystory would like to congratulate the Puerto Rican Olympic mens basketball team for beating a bunch of arrogant, egotistical multimillionaires from the United States.

I'm generally cool to the Olympics as they have been presented by NBC for the past couple decades. It's a sporting event -- cover it like one. Setting that complaint aside, I'm watching synchronized diving. Why? There's no underwater basketweaving on. I'm of the opinion that synchronized anything isn't a sport. Heck, I thought curling […]

I was kidding when I wrote that I would file a lawsuit with the FTC over The New York Times "All the News that's Fit to Print" slogan. Somebody else took my joke seriously. (Via Poor and Stupid.)