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...eager Richard's wife and children were to serve his scientainment ambitions. The kids seemed to take to their Wife Swap appearance with foulmouthed gusto. But that doesn't make turning their lives into TV a better idea or make exploiting them in a publicity scheme any less odious. If your kid is puking on the Today show while you keep talking to Meredith Vieira, it's a good sign you've screwed...
...most pernicious implications of hate-crimes laws, however, are those tied to freedom of thought. America is a country in which everyone is entitled to his opinion, no matter how odious that opinion may be. People have the right to be offensive, so long as their views do not lead to actions that extend beyond speech or thought. But this premise complicates the legitimacy of hate-crimes laws. If racism is permitted legally but murder is not, then how can it be justified for murder borne out of racism to be treated more severely than any other kind of murder...
...doubt that China is the world's next superpower, but we sometimes forget that this is a nation that can't make safe milk, and where activists vanish from their homes. Look at how China exerts its new global influence - by backing some of the world's most odious regimes, in North Korea, Sudan and Burma. Most pundits mistakenly praise the Chinese system as blindly as they criticize the American one. Many economists ignore China's immense problems that could undermine Chinese growth in the future...
...citing by of an insignificant incident of schoolboy bullying - initially blown out of all miniscule proportion by Matt Drudge and jumped on by Michelle Malkin - as evidence of some kind of anti-white uprising in "Obama's America" prompts repulsed observers to characterize as "evil" and "vile" and "odious...
...There will be no peace as long as this persists. And there will be no peace without Hamas as part of the process, as odious as its continuing embrace of violence against innocents may be. And there will be no process if the U.S. doesn't speak to all sides. In the past, the Middle East peacemakers, more often than not, have been the former terrorists - on both sides...