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...probably at the wrong house." (He duly marked that down, to save future canvassers the trouble.) Still, the yard signs we saw suggested that this was in fact a neighborhood divided. We discovered that was true when we approached another house on the list and found a father and son raking the front yard. "I'm voting for McCain," the father told us. But his 19-year-old son, a college student home for the weekend, told us he plans to send in his absentee ballot for Obama. His reason? "Palin's a retard," he said. As for the lady...
...years since, Shepard's mother Judy has become one of the nation's most persuasive representatives for gay equality. I first met Judy Shepard five years ago, when I was reporting on how Wyoming had changed since her son was murdered. She is a small, disarmingly direct woman. The other day, when I asked her how she was doing, she simply responded, "Tired." She had just spoken at two events in Washington, and she had attended the dedication of a park bench in Laramie built for her son. She had also made time to do interviews with more reporters than...
Which is why it's difficult for me to say that I think she's wrong about what could become her son's most important legacy: a hate-crimes bill before Congress called the Matthew Shepard Act. The bill would expand, far too aggressively, the two existing federal hate-crimes laws. One is from 1968; it allows the Federal Government to prosecute crimes committed on the basis of race, religion and national origin when the victim is engaged in public activities like going to school or eating at a restaurant or attending a concert. The other is from...
...supporters of Adolf Hitler's National Socialist Party, which ruled Austria after it was annexed to Nazi Germany in 1938. After the war his father was briefly penalized for his Nazi affiliation and his mother lost her job as a teacher; those bitter consequences, biographers say, helped shape their son's political views. Haider also inherited a $16 million mountain estate in Carinthia with a controversial past: his great uncle had purchased it from an Italian Jew forced to flee Austria in 1940. Critics said that the price of the land was artificially low because its owner had been forced...
...mental illnesses like schizophrenia? First of all, it's pretty easy to see that people kind of frown on mental illness. If your neighbor has a heart condition, it's, "Gee, poor Jane, she has to take care of her husband." But if the neighbor has a manic-depressive son, you're kind of mad at them because the kid misbehaves. Unless you're a very, very considerate neighbor that's gotten close to the family, you can't quite understand why Johnny can be such a mean little child, why he does dangerous things. Well, the mom next door...