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[lapster]

Yet another great column by Mr. Sowell. He is, indeed, a voice crying in the wilderness. I think one of the saddest statements I have heard in my lifetime was the lament by Clarence Thomas the other night on Hannity when the Justice said he just couldn’t understand why blacks treat him the way they do. May God help the dominant black culture in this country and those of us — of all races —who are its victims.

[tcrlaf]

“steady diet of the racial polarization that Nifong promoted would make it only a matter of time before we would see in America the kind of violence seen between Sunnis and Shiites in Baghdad.”

I take it he’s never been to East L.A., South Chicago, or any other place with a black/hispanic civil war going on?

[rawcatslyentist]

>"Could this country survive as a free nation if every District Attorney used the power of that office to intimidate any witness whose testimony undermined the prosecution's case?"

Good question, let's ask Scooter!

[Timocrat]

Another reminder of where our moral compasses should be pointed from Dr Sowell. Why Nyfong isn’t spending ten yers behind bars is beyond me. Scooter Libby gets jailed and Nyfong attempts to railroad three guys into lengthy jail sentences and is given a slap on the hand !

[Our man in washington]

Between this column and the two columns on Clarence Thomas, this is the finest week for Sowell columns in a long time. And that’s saying a lot. Sowell is the best political columnist in the nation (followed just behind by Mark Steyn and Jonah Goldberg, in that order.)

[stephenjohnbanker]

Excellent piece!

[syriacus]

Great column! Thanks for posting it.

[facedown]

The "rule of law" is not just a pat phrase. It is the foundation on which everything else is built.

And therin lies the problem.

We no longer have the rule of law.

All we have now is the rules of lawyers.

[Hostage]

Thomas Sowell is a national treasure.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

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Until Proven Innocent:
Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices
of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case by Stuart Taylor, KC Johnson

Awesome reviews at Amazon . . . I think the press coverage of Nifong's rampage ranks right up there with that of the fraudulent "Texas Air National Guard memos" case, and the Florida 2000 At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election by Bill Sammon (2002)
as examples of the fact that the Associated Press should be hit with a RICO suit.

And yes, you could add in the hearing coverage which Clarence Thomas styled "a hi-tech lynching" to that list.

[slowhandluke]

Nor was that the only place where the guilt of the players was virtually taken for granted, on either the sports pages of the Times or in other places there or in other newspapers. However, let me correct a misstatement that I made recently in this column to the effect that the Times' editorial page gave the same impression as its news coverage that the accused students were guilty.

There's another point to be made here on how the news and sports pages were used to deliver the "They are guilty!" opinion, yet it did not show up on the opinion page.