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New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and politics don't mix. Paul Krugman, apparently isolated from news reports, is still fighting to prevent the United States from going to war against Iraq. Krugman refers to an ABC News report where a "Bush administration official" (not even "senior"?), apparently responding to a question about whether the administration […]

Just caught a couple of minute of Greta Van Susteran's program while awaiting the beginning of the Ducks vs. Stars hockey game, and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson approved of the diplomatic path the Bush administration was now taking. In the past, according to Richardson, the labeling of North Korea part of the Axis of […]

Blogger Bryon Scott over at Slings and Arrows analyzes former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter's defense of fellow Iraqi-bought public figure George Galloway. No one takes Ritter seriously anymore, and for good reason, as Scott points out.

Donald Luskin has the latest on New York Times columnist Paul Krugman's math difficulties over at NRO.

Try K-R-U-G-M-A-N. Today, if you hadn't heard it before, Krugman reveals that he's none too fond of the Bush tax cuts -- past or present. This time, Krugman uses Democratic presidential candidate Dick Gephardt's recently-announced health care plan to present his argument. [C]ongressman Richard Gephardt's new proposal — to scrap the 2001 tax cut and […]

In an effort to repair their image with their largely conservative country fan base, the Dixie Chicks (Full disclosure: I do own all of their albums -- bought before lead singer Natalie Maines started talking -- as opposed to singing) are going on ABC's "Primetime Live" tonight. From the excerpts played on Sean Hannity's radio […]

My list of Cuban dissidents was cited in today's Impromptus over at National Review Online. You'll have to scroll down in the story. Unfortunately, he linked directly to the html table on my site and not to the entry here at Hoystory. So I've got no idea how many people are viewing it. But at […]

Zachary Barbera over at Voice from the Commonwealth, has a suggestion that we offer Cuban dictator Fidel Castro a straight-up trade, 1 for 1, of Hollywood leftists in return for the freedom of the journalists and human rights activists listed below. Now, while I'm sure that there are plenty of Castro-loving Hollywood liberals that qualify, […]

I was going to write on Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen's Tuesday column last night, but making the chart you see below was more time-consuming than I had anticipated. Anyway, Cohen's little diatribe against media mogul Rupert Murdoch's Fox News Channel and New York Post is a waste of perfectly good newsprint (and Internet bandwidth). […]

While the world's attention was focused on the war in Iraq, Cuban "president" Fidel Castro took the opportunity to imprison many advocates of democracy on the spurious charge that they were American agents. The following table was published in Sunday's San Diego Union-Tribune, but did not appear on the paper's Web site. (I know, I […]