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Well, the results are in and Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry is the big winner. Kerry wrapped up wins in Arizona, Delaware, Missouri, New Mexico and North Dakota. Gen. Wesley Clark snookered a bare plurality of the voters in Oklahoma, and Sen. John Edwards handily won his native South Carolina. Has Kerry got it all wrapped […]

I've got a public e-mail address over there on the left, so I expect to get more than my fair share of viruses and the like that make their way over the Internet and into my home. After years of using Norton Antivirus satisfactorily, I switched to McAfee. Why? Because it was time to renew […]

Readers of Hoystory are intelligent, learned and possess an impressive vocabulary. It is unnecessary, and reflects badly on your host, to use crude, unimaginative vulgarities here. These words are more at home on MTV (or most liberal blogs) than in the comments section of this fine blog.

It should be no surprise that soldiers in Iraq are less than impressed by the police blotter coverage of what's happening in Iraq. ABC News has a good article on the subject. What surprised me most was how little news many of the soldiers get -- and they get it late. Another thing of note […]

I must confess that I'm not that good at accepting compliments. They make me feel uncomfortable and I try to dismiss them. But, I'm a whole lot better than Texas Tech coach Bobby Knight. One eyewitness told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal that Knight raised his voice to (Texas Tech Chancellor David) Smith after the chancellor approached […]

Democrat presidential wannabe Howard Dean has stuck his foot in his mouth again. Howard Dean, a physician and a Democratic presidential candidate, on Monday dismissed as "silly" a government inquiry into whether indecency rules were broken during the broadcast of the Super Bowl halftime show when pop diva Janet Jackson's bodice was ripped to expose […]

In the wake of the damning Hutton report that accused the BBC of "sexing up" its anti-war reporting, the San Diego Union-Tribune's own James Goldsborough comes to the BBC's defense. The BBC is no longer one of the "world's great news organizations" -- despite Goldsborough's protestations. Goldsborough is defending the Beeb because its war "reporting" […]

From today's "Best of the Web Today" we get the following highlights from an appearance by Howard Dean on yesterday's "Meet the Press." On "Meet the Press" yesterday Howard Dean had this exchange with host Tim Russert: Russert: And what about this pay from the special interests five times for speeches? Dean: In 12 years […]

First, on the domestic front, we have an article by Jim Geraghty over at National Review Online about Democrat presidential candidate Gen. Wesley Clark. The article is the best attempt I've seen to explain why Gen. Hugh Shelton slammed Clark over "honesty and integrity" issues. Interviews with a wide variety of current and retired military […]

I just finished Christopher Paolini's "Eragon" today. I started it yesterday. It's 528 pages. Is it good? Yep. Is it fun? Yep. Should you buy it? Yep. First off, let's get one thing out of the way. I bought the book because it was cheap for a hardback and I'd read a wire story about […]