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Justice? I’m going to be consistent with my longtime position on hate crimes. I don’t think there should be such a thing as a “hate crime.” If you commit a crime against someone, it’s the action you should be punished for, not for “hating” them or whatever other nefarious motive. That said, the fact that the Chicago Police Department chose moments ago to charge Jordan Hill, Tesfaye Cooper, Brittany Covington and Tanishia Covington with a hate crime in the video attack that everyone has now seen at least shows that they’re no longer pretending the attack was neither racially nor...

   America’s Parents ― Dogs In An Alley May 1, 2008 I can remember that, as a child, my parents always warned me that if I acted badly, people would blame them for being bad parents. As an adult, I now understand the wisdom of their admonishments. And speaking of bad parents.... It’s always been puzzling to me how many Americans breed children with less concern than that which we give to the purchase of a new car. And nothing has crystallized this thought more than the recent video-taped beating of Florida teenager Victoria Lindsay by a collective group of eight teenage peers. Six teenage...

The TV talk show Dr. Phil McGraw confirmed on Saturday the fact that its staff bailed out of Florida jail one of the girls involved in the violent video posted on YouTube. The video depicted several teen girls beating one of their classmates while filming her. Mercades Nichols is one of the eight teen girls who face charges in the case of the vicious beating posted on YouTube. She was bailed out by a representative of the show on Friday night, MyFOXTampaBay.com reported. The bails for the violent girls were set on Friday and they are ranging from $30,000 to...