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Dear Mainstream Media, I understand why you report as you do in both the Israel-Hezbollah conflict and the larger war on terror. You believe journalism requires a sort of elegant moral relativism, that telling "both sides of the story" is a necessary prerequisite to "objective" journalism. You don't believe that there can be an objective right or wrong; if you were reporting World War II today, you'd feel obligated to speak to front-line Japanese and Nazi soldiers and discuss the Allies' disproportionate response to the attack on Pearl Harbor and the invasion of Poland. Since you don't believe in right...

"Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes," English poet John Donne famously wrote. In his death, Fidel Castro may finally achieve the foolish dream of communism: full equality. He certainly didn't achieve it in his life, despite his policy of murder, torture and mass starvation. Castro, like all other tin-pot dictators, was always happy to reap the benefits of dictatorship while his people suffered its pains. This week, Castro handed the reins of power over to his brother, Raul. Reportedly, 79-year-old Fidel is suffering from "a sharp intestinal crisis with sustained bleeding that...