Third, and most worrisome, hate-crimes laws are an unreliable deterrent against anyone so consumed with venom as to attack another for his sexuality, race, religion, or sex. If such statutes magically shielded at-risk minorities from violence, they would be worthwhile. Alas, they are no defense at all. In this sense, Matthew Shepard, James Byrd, and Yankel Rosenbaum sadly demonstrate something too often true. People don't save people.
Guns save people.
By Jonah Goldberg. A few differences in outlook on policy. By William F. Buckley Jr. It just might be that the liberal establishment's religious attachment to the ABM treaty has finally cracked. By Rich Lowry.