“”He is a committed conservative, no question about it, but he’s not a hater,” – Mark “liberal but not a hater” Shields, Washington Post.
THE LEVYS: According to the New York “no unpublished slur” Post, the impetus for the concentration on Gary Condit’s brother, Darrell, has come from Chandra Levy’s family. So now we have a manhunt conducted or orchestrated by people with a vested interest. Ever read “The Scarlet Letter?” Or “The Crucible”? The Levy family’s distress is understandable; their grief and worry terrible. But that’s precisely why their agenda should not be the same as the media’s or the cops’. It’s good sign, though, that the press is now attempting to justify its ransacking the lives of private individuals by citing the wishes of the Levy family. It means the bloodhounds are beginning to worry they have drastically over-played their hand. If I were the Levys, I’d be worried. At some point, this insatiable tiger they are riding will eat them as well. It is already beginning to nibble at the reputation of their missing daughter.
THE EXPENSE OF LANDFILLS: A reader asks: Did it occur to the DC cops that it would have been less expensive to search area landfills if they had started their search ten bleeping weeks ago?
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