Wolverines at school functions are unacceptable. Zero tolerance either means zero tolerance or the school board facing a decade of end runs by Jackson and any other meddlesome gadfly. Fail to draw the line and the line keeps moving until there are no rules. The timing and targets of compassion are critical for conservatives. Compassion for the guilty is a harsh sentence for victims.
Liberals are spotty in their compassion.
They wanted nothing less than the death penalty for the killers of Matthew Shepherd. The Byrd dragging death case of a black man in Texas has brought liberal outrage but not one stitch of compassion for the misguided killers. Justice demands consistency and law demands equality, not preference nor exception. The quality of mercy is indeed strained, tempered by justice, for without justice, mercy is nothing. If such a stance lacks compassion, so be it, Mr. Bush.