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...deep right field. But Ashcroft is also more complicated than the cartoons suggest. If he is so polarizing, how was he elected five times in a swing state? Is he the libertarian who fought alongside liberals to keep the government from prying into encrypted computer files or the bedroom policeman who opposed an ambassadorial candidate on the grounds that he was openly gay? Personally abstemious, he banned alcohol from the Governor's mansion during his eight years in office and vetoed a bill allowing Sunday alcohol sales, and yet his fifth largest campaign contributor was Anheuser-Busch. He has worked...
...life sentences. Says Coons: "This is the kind of person who might take a hurt bird to the hospital and would never hurt Granny unless she said you can't have the car, and then he would pump her full of lead." The gang is accused of murdering a policeman who tried to stop their assault on a sporting-goods store to steal weapons and cash. They shot him six times in the head, four in the arm and once in the back, then they used the getaway car to run him over to make sure he was dead...
...turned them into cathartic art. Lennon had been abandoned by his father before birth, and then again when he was 5. His mother gave him up to be raised by her sister. Lennon lost his mother again when he was 18, when she was run over by a drunken policeman. Twelve years later, Lennon philosophized it simply and heartbreakingly. "Mother... you had me - but I never had you. I needed you - but you didn't need...
...irrelevance - of truth. Of much more importance than truth are... feelings! If you doubt me, think of O. J. Simpson playing golf in Florida (and even commenting on the current legal process over the weekend). Think of the crime in the O.J. case. Think of the role of a policeman's use of the n-word in getting Simpson off. Think of the combat between truth and feelings. And tell me which of them...
...There won't be a situation where someone is seen to be an advocate or policeman of one campaign," Darling says...