Spitzer: Caught With His Pants Down
If I were to look up the word “hypocrite” in the dictionary, I would open up to a picture of Eliot Spitzer—possibly wearing nothing but long, black socks. Spitzer, or Client Number Nine, now joins the rest of the nation in watching his shameful career go down the drain. I, for one, am satisfied. Not that I subscribe to a belief in karma, but that does appear to be what’s going on here, and I am delighted to see it. Spitzer made a career out of attacking legal activity with illegitimate reasoning in order to further his own political career. In the process, he ruined the lives of those involved, many of whom lost everything they had worked for—everything that is deserved by a successful, lawful, hard-working American. Now, with the revelation of Eliot Spitzer’s prostitution scandal, his life is essentially over. Justice is being served.
They must be stopped. Dramatic, yes, but certainly of significant truth. I’m referring to the murderous gunmen who have recently terrorized college campuses in the United States, and also to those who may be considering similar action. Incidents at Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois serve as disturbing proof of an increase in deadly campus shootings, and it is far from irrational to fear that other disturbed college students may be getting ideas.
I’m thinking of a word to describe what the candidates’ position should be concerning taxes. It starts with “L” and ends in “ower” and anything other than it is unacceptable. 
Certainly, it is gravely disappointing to observe the actions taken recently by President Pervez Musharraf in Pakistan. The departure from democracy is particularly distressing to watch within a Middle Eastern nation. Thousands of opposition leaders and human rights activists have been imprisoned within Pakistan by the Musharraf administration, and the media has been effectively gagged during the current period of emergency rule. A multitude of influential leaders such as George W. Bush, John Negroponte, and former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto have expressed the obvious concern that free and fair elections are simply impossible if the opposition is suspended and a nation is under emergency rule. John Negroponte stated the obvious after his return from his meeting with Musharraf in Pakistan. He said, "Emergency rule is not compatible with free, fair and credible elections." Such is the reason that he and the Bush administration have made their position clear that they desire a complete reversal of the current conditions: a ridding of emergency rule and a return to a democratic path. Musharraf, however, remained in staunch defiance of the Bush administration’s calls for end of emergency rule, and has only recently begun to relent, announcing last week that emergency rule would tentatively end on December 16. 
As she notes from the very beginning of her new book, If Democrats Had Any Brains, They’d Be Republicans, Ann Coulter has been denounced by Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Tom Daschle, Dick Durbin, Jack Reed, Dianne Feinstein, Frank Lautenberg, more than fifty Democratic House members, as well as “a slew of sissy Republican presidential candidates,” as she puts it. It does not stop there. Ms. Coulter has incited, during the course of her often-controversial career, denunciations and criticism from a wide selection of different types of people ranging from your typical New-York-Times-editorial-page-worshipping liberal to even some on the other side of the isle. Coulter also points out that the common criticism is that she has “gone too far” or has “crossed the line.” My response is: What line? 
