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Is it possible that advice like this was the cause of the financial crisis? From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg *** Pelosi on the Midterms: In an interview with one of us yesterday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi maintained that Democrats would hold on to the House after the midterm elections. “Take […]

In the 2006 race for the Virginia Senate race held by George Allen, the senator made a fatal (political) mistake. His opponent had dispatched a student to shadow Allen and record everything he said in public in an effort to provide some political ammunition. He got that ammunition when Allen referred to him as a […]

Sen. Barbara “dumb as a bag of hammers” Boxer: Someone get that list of names and fire them too. For the record: Hoystory endorses Carly Fiorina for Senate.

Long before Obamacare became the law of the land, many opponents – including myself – had made the point that President Obama’s oft-repeated claim that “if you like the insurance you have, you can keep it,” was a promise he had no power to keep. With Obamacare’s mandates and changes in funding mechanisms, it is […]

The big foreign policy news of the day was the 12-2 vote in the U.N. Security Council to place sanctions on Iran that are neither “crippling” nor “have bite,” but are instead little more than “annoying flies.” That we’ve waited 18 months to get this would be laughable if the result wasn’t that Iran is […]

I tell you, politics doesn’t get a whole lot better than this. First, we have Barack “I inherited this mess from Bush” Obama telling high school students to take responsibility for their own actions and to not blame others for their failures. Don’t believe me? How exactly can one be so completely unaware of the […]

A bunch of high school students from one of the local public schools got together and wrote a letter to the editor of the San Luis Obispo Tribune. After reading the missive, one wonders what they’re teaching young people today. We are writing to protest the law that targets illegal immigrants in Arizona. Amnesty International […]

I’d added some Kate Beckinsale movies to my Netflix queue a few months ago, and this one finally made it to the top of my list and into the mailbox. “Nothing But The Truth” is loosely based upon the Valerie Plame “scandal.” The focus of the story is Beckinsale’s character, reporter Rachel Armstrong (whose rough […]

If you're reading this, it means you've arrived at the new host for my blog. If things look messy, I hope to have them fixed in short order. Apparently my blog has achieved a certain size and degree of complexity that I can't really set it up until it's "live." So, forgive the mess. Things […]

Most blog readers (left and right) are probably familiar with undercover journalist/provocateur James O'Keefe. He's the guy who captured video of ACORN employees all too eager to help a pimp and a prostitute set up a house of ill repute -- such ill repute that it also involved sex-trafficking of underage girls. The story was […]