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National Review's Dave Kopel and Carlo Stagnaro take a look at the economic suicide some European countries would be making if they implemented Kyoto-style emission controls. Dr. Margo Thorning performed a study about four European countries [link requires Acrobat Reader] and estimated that the Kyoto Protocol would have a strong negative impact on the GNP […]

I've already done my monthly obligatory banging of the tip jar, but this isn't exactly that. If you scroll down, you'll notice that Hoystory is now displaying google ads in the left column. I get a few cents each time you click on one of those -- even if you don't buy anything. So, if […]

Some in the Chinese leadership are suggesting giving President George W. Bush "The Thatcher Treatment" over Taiwan. Soon after Sino-British negotiations over Hong Kong's fate began in the early 1980s, late patriarch Deng refused to entertain suggestions by then British Prime Minister Thatcher about alternate ways to prolong Britain's lease over the crown colony. In […]

Islamic interest group(s) play the victim card -- and it doesn't fly. Meanwhile, while Islamic lobby groups and the most distinguished semiotics professors in America are analysing Johnny Hart's outhouse joke, the European Union's Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia has decided to shelve its report on the rise of anti-Semitism on the Continent. The […]

National Review's Jonah Goldberg has an excellent article on the culture wars. If conservatives have such a lock on the culture these days, as Al Gore, Al Franken, and others keep insisting, why don't we just switch sides? The Left can have Fox News, the Wall Street Journal op-ed page, the lavish offices of National […]

President Bush won't be looking to the New York Times editorial page anytime soon for advice on running a successful campaign. After all, the Times endorsed that tree guy, Al Gore, last time -- and we know how that worked out. Anyway, in the interest of being a good corporate citizen, the Times on Sunday […]

I'm watching a recording of Sunday's "Meet the Press." Host Tim Russert, who usually is a pretty solid interviewer has just asked Sen. Tom Daschle (D-N.D.) that if we are unable to convince the French on the U.N. Security Council and the French and Germans in NATO to lend more support in the form of […]

When it came over the wires on Thursday, my jaw dropped. I'd been reading Bernie Goldberg's "Arrogance," and he recounted The New York Times' treatment of books by Christina Hoff Sommers, specifically "Who Stole Feminism?: How Women have Betrayed Women" and "The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men." What was […]

The Pulitzer committee has decided not to revoke the Pulitzer Prize awarded in 1932 to The New York Times' Walter Duranty for his "reporting" on Stalin. This should come as no surprise -- it seems more and more often the journalistic profession requires much higher standards of everyone but themselves.

The numbers regarding student ignorance are scary, but the ignorance level on the part of administrators is downright frightening.