From the WSJ Opinion Archives
Tony & Tacky
RED STATES CARE: In news sure to depress those for whom Republican stinginess and antipathy for the less fortunate is an article of faith, the Massachusetts Catalogue for Philanthropy has just released its Generosity Index 2003, which ranks states not just by how much their residents give per capita but also by how much they give relative to what they earn. As OpinionJournal.com reader Gabriel Openshaw pointed out to us, the resulting index shows that the top 20 states all went for George W. Bush in the 2000 election--while 15 of the 20 least generous went for Al Gore. Maybe, he suggests, the difference is that those in red states are more generous with their own money while those in blue states are more likely to be generous with other people's money.
HEIL, DUBYA: A recent Harvard poll found that today's college students are more likely to register as Republicans and support President Bush than even the general public, but apparently there are those who disagree. As a recent column in the Massachusetts Daily Collegian puts it: "Dubya is one of the single most evil men roaming free right now, a man whose deviousness and maliciousness is equaled by only a few. Bush is a creature on the same level as bin Laden or, more appropriately, Hitler. . . . This man and his cronies--his 21st century version of the Third Reich--should be held accountable for the atrocities that they have inflicted." A budding Michael Moore?
