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Mark Felt was the topic du jour in an honors philosophy class at Catonsville High School last week, reported the Baltimore Sun, which noted that "most of the 12 juniors in the class said it was unethical for Felt to talk to Woodward." Felt's job, said one student, was "to go to his superiors." Another student said, "if it was truly to benefit society, he wouldn't have kept his name secret." A student named YinYin Yu, 16, opined daringly that Felt's info was beside the point since all politicians behave badly at some point: "They don't have ethics. They have...

Surviving a weekend with the Arizona Minutemen Most of us were aliensonce upon a time.(Photos by Marc Cooper) TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA — Unwittingly, for sure. Nevertheless, the organizers of this month’s Minuteman Project — a plan to deploy 1,000 or more volunteers to blockade a portion of the Mexican border — couldn’t have chosen a more appropriate staging ground than this movie-set town totally dedicated to Old West re-enactments. Last weekend, mustachioed, six-gun–carrying Tombstone Marshals (as the local police call themselves), standing alongside tourist stagecoaches, gathered on the town’s main street with a squad of Wyatt Earp and Clanton Gang impersonators...

In May of 1990, Newsday's syndicated columnist Jimmy Breslin received an e-mail criticizing one of his columns as "sexist." That so outraged Mr. Breslin that he denounced the sender, a female Korean-American reporter, as a yellow, slant-eyed cur. And he went on the Howard Stern filth show to further discuss his displeasure. Newsday, Long Island's daily newspaper, which at one time had a New York City edition, suspended Breslin for two weeks without pay, even though he apologized to the young reporter. They should have fired this New York thug who has now been charged with fabricating quotes in order...