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Hoystory will be publishing irregularly and on a reduced schedule over the next two weeks as I move my residence. More regular and lengthy postings will resume in mid-June.

Kudos to the Miller Brewing Company: A new TV spot for Miller beer does something that is most uncommon in today's commercial culture -- it supports the sanctity of marriage. The ad shows a couple of guys at a bar who spot a very attractive woman. We see the woman write down her phone number […]

Absolute power corrupts absolutely: Especially when it's given to an airport screener. An Army lieutenant wounded in action in Afghanistan has bumped into the stupidity of the new security rules. An Army lieutenant whose jaw is wired shut from a bullet wound he received in Afghanistan claims screeners at San Francisco International Airport denied him […]

Don't call me stupid!: Yes, the phrase was made famous by Kevin Kline in "A Fish Called Wanda," but now Dov Fischer is saying it too. [I]n his latest ad hominem-based syndicated article, the resident radical-Left opinion writer at the Los Angeles Times, Robert Scheer, mocked the intelligence of Attorney General John Ashcroft. In a […]

The WHO and its budget: Krugman defender Jeff Hauser is disputing my analysis of the WHO's budget as spending a large portion of its funding for administrative costs. The fact that Hauser and I can't easily determine exactly how much money is going to administrative costs and how much is spent actually helping the poor […]

Great story: From the Wall Street Journal on Pentagon reporter Raymond Cromley. It's well worth a read.

What you didn't know about the GOP: Republicans are cold, heartless, kitten-drowning bastards -- each and every one of them. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman uses the current Third World tour that U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and U2 lead singer Bono are on to point out that if you're in the GOP, you […]

An honest liberal: The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof has an excellent article in today's paper. It's an excellent article, mainly because Kristof echoes a point I made earlier. One reason aggressive agents were restrained as they tried to go after Zacarias Moussaoui is that liberals like myself � and the news media caldron in […]

Alert! Gloria Allred is an idiot. She was on "Alan Keyes is Making Sense" tonight and argued that it was an invasion of privacy for an FBI agent to listen to a speech at a public rally or to surf the Internet for terrorism-related sites. When they get the transcript up, I'll link to it.

Not buying it: Contributing to the crusade to tell everyone what they can and cannot do with their personal computers, Internet research company Viant says that between 400,000 and 600,000 pirated feature films are downloaded every day. I don't think so. According to figures from September 2001, 54 percent of Americans surfed the Web in […]