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The CONTENT OF THEIR COLOR (Sen Mark Udall, Dem Colorado) Seems to Be at Issue The Story Was of the 13 Year Old Girl Who Attacked Another Girl Holding a Toddler, While Other Kids Shouted Out Promptings, Threats and Laughed Approvingly.The original news story had to mention that the victim was "bi-racial".What is being implied here? "Well, it was 'just a black-on-black attack'.""It's just an internal racial matter'."She wasn't really (of another race)". Isn't that was Rev. Martin Luther King was talking about, referring to "the content of their character"?We're supposed to move beyond racial stereotyping, of all kinds.People of...

In the slide show I narrated about the late William F. Buckley, Jr., I didn’t have room to get into a couple of issues we’ve been debating here at the Lab: the Drug Enforcement Administration’s campaigns against medical marijuana and against doctors who treat chronic-pain patients. Mr. Buckley was worried about the D.E.A. well before the OxyContin scare inspired the agency’s Operation Cotton Candy and led to doctors like William Hurwitz and Bernard Rottschaefer being sent to prison. In 1995, after criticizing presidents and members of Congress for pursuing a war on drugs he considered futile, Mr. Buckley wrote: But...