Testifying before Congress yesterday, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld told Congress that it was time to eliminate military bases around the country that are no longer needed. Unfortunately eliminating such bases is always a political hot potato. Representative Rob Simmons (R-Connecticut) summed up the attitude that most members of Congress have toward military bases,…

A group of at least eleven juveniles in New Jersey recently culminated a day of violence by beating to death a homeless man. The juveniles were black and the victim was Hispanic, and almost immediately there were cries on conservative sites like Free Republic about why the boys weren’t being charged with a hate crime.…