I'm Such A Sap For Democracy And

So That All The People Who Say, You Know, "all The Media Hates America." A Lot Of The Media Does Hate America But This Is A Case Of, Actually, The Press Doing Its Best, I Think, To Do The Right By National Security. So Good For Them.

It's Almost Impossible To Make The Case That Bush Is A Conservative. That May Be Good; That May Be Bad.

I Guess What I'm Looking For Here Is Empathy. So You [nicholas Kristof] Have Traveled All Around The World, Famously To The Worse Places Of The World. Darfur. Mogadishu, Ouagadougou. Probably Those Places Much More Than Modesto Or Lewiston.i Never Read A Column By You That Suggest The People In Those Places, Who Support Dictators Oftentimes, Are Racists Or Bad People. You Would Never Write That About A Poor Person In The Third World But You Are Implying That About Your Fellow Americans.

I Think [pat] Buchanan Is Far Too Easily And Glibly Dismissed.

I Will Say, The One Thing Mexico Does Well Is Punish Prisoners. They Do. They're Good At That.