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Score one for me!: Last month I wrote that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission was getting serious about investigating what exactly happened last year when the lights went out in California. At that time, in a column for the New York Times, columnist Paul Krugman wrote: "And I'm sure that there will be a determined […]

An Arizona blogger points out the similarities between your common, disease-carrying rat and California Gov. Gray Davis. So creepy and so right.

What they knew and when they knew it Bush administration reveals who had information on Sept. 11 terror attacks -- and didn't warn the public (Hoystory.com) -- The Bush administration issued a preliminary report today that points the finger of blame for failure to prevent the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks squarely at America's psychics. "All […]

More annoying than a little kid with a drum set: Those pop-under ads that have exploded into use on the Internet may become a little less common. CNet's News.com is reporting that ExitExchange is claiming rights to the ubiquitous advertising convention. If its patent application is approved, all those Web sites using those ads will […]

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.