In a recent column, Peggy Noonan noted how Bill and Hillary Clinton’s serial misdeeds have become so commonplace that both are essentially inoculated against claims that they are bad people.  No matter what a Clinton does, it’s already “old news,” in their apologists’ favorite turn of phrase.  “Nobody cares” is the next favorite.  For the Clintons themselves, “What difference does it make?” will do. This is hardly a new phenomenon, and it is simply a reflection of human nature.  Anybody who’s worked in criminal justice, the public school system, or the military (I’ve worked in all three) knows it.  I call it the chronic miscreant’s pass.  As a young attorney I was amazed when obvious chronic minor offenders were given a pass by prosecutors and judges for no other reason than it appeared that they were sick of dealing with them.  “Three strike” laws are partly the...(Read Full Post)