Certainly the most interesting item of the day is that conservative intellectual William Bennett is a big-time gambler, with stakes running into the millions. Newsweek investigated his activities in Vegas and Atlantic City over ten years and suggested his losses have run close to $8 million. Now, I find this all disappointing, but one rather important fact is buried in the middle of the expose:

“'I play fairly high stakes. I adhere to the law. I don’t play the ‘milk money.’ I don’t put my family at risk, and I don’t owe anyone anything,' Bennett says. The documents do not contradict those points."

If all this is true, then what is the big issue? Hypocrisy? The chance to deflate the so-called "morality czar?" If he hasn't violated the law, hasn't endangered his family, and is not broke or playing above his head, is there a morality issue here? Is it character assassination?