• Eliminating the distinction between crack and powder cocaine apparently is at the top of the docket for Democrats' reforms of the criminal justice system. This is the height of misplaced priorities for the national executive.
  
  
• The question asked if there should be a federal right to return to New Orleans. This debate is getting more and more silly by the minute. There is an absolute right under the constitution to travel and relocate. That there is any discussion of this issue shows the lack of depth of the democratic constituency.
  
  
• Finally a semblance of sanity about outsourcing from Joe Biden. Sometimes he sounds so reasonable (especially compared to this crowd) and then I remember the judicial nominations of Roberts and Alito.
  
  
• Kucinich just tried to outflank Gravel by advocating the abolishment of NAFTA. You're going to have to do better than that Dennis. Once you start to advocate assassination of President Bush you'll regain the title of nuttiest Presidential nominee.
  
  
• I'm reaching for the earplugs again with Hillary.
  
  
• A buzz word in Democratic circles has been "moral authority". My question is: What does it matter if you have "moral authority" if you are unwilling to act? Kucinich's department of Peace would have all the moral authority in the world, but it would do nothing. Certainly the UN has moral authority, but we all know what the UN has done with that moral authority. It seems more important for these candidates to portend morality than to act.

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