Most of us profess to admire people of principle, but that admiration is often distressingly abstract. In real life, people who stand on principle are likely to find that they have stepped into the line of everyone?s fire.
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Rules in Black and White #2
One of the most basic responsibilities of local government is the supervision of traffic. We depend upon municipal officials to engineer our streets and highways, erect and maintain traffic signals, and to promulgate rules that foster safety on the streets…
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Morals or Moralism?
A clergyman friend of mine is bemused by America’s fixation with what he calls "genital morality," our seeming incapacity to discuss morals in any but a sexual context, with the result that sexual misconduct ( a la Clinton and Burton) becomes evidence of (drum roll here, please) the Moral Decline of Western Civilization….
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Seat Belts & Drug Stops
Within the past week, courts have handed down two opinions which seem contradictory: the Indiana Supreme Court upheld the law allowing police to stop and ticket drivers for failing to buckle up, while the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against drug interdiction checkpoints. I think both decisions were legally correct.
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Is the Party Over ?
November 2d was difficult for Republicans who came of age politically under L. Keith Bulen. I still remember a speech he made to our fledgling Neighborhood Finance Committee, where he thundered that we must never forget a cardinal rule: "Good government is good politics."…
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