Wednesday, January 25, 2006  Why can't all conservatives be more
like A. Barton Hinkle?  Normally, I would use the Richmond
Times-Dispatch to wrap this  The simple fact is that Richmond,
Virginia is not well served by its major daily newspaper. All
the same, just when I despair of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, a
Bart Hinkle Op-Ed will slip through the censors to reveal
humanity and plain good sense. I think Hinkle may be the only
"good" (i.e. libertarian) conservative left at the RTD.  Anyway,
yesterday Bart Hinkle took on the crowd that is stampeding
towards amending our commonwealth's constitution to enshrine
discrimination as one of our guiding principles. The "good" news
is that it seems to me that if you can discriminate against gay
people, you can pretty much discriminate against anyone:
personally I think we need to prevent rednecks from getting
married and raising children. I will begin working on that
amendment later this week.  You can see Bart Hinkle's latest Op-
Ed here. Their endorsement of Peace s