The Rise of Hate Crimes -- Again

On this mid-June morning, I'm driving across Kansas and into the heart of America's second civil war. Up ahead is Wichita, where two weeks ago Dr. George Tiller, the nation's most prominent abortion doctor, was gunned down in the lobby of his Lutheran Church. It was well known in the anti-abortion movement that Dr. Tiller always wore a bulletproof vest, so his alleged killer, Scott Roeder, shot him once in the forehead from only inches away. This landscape of flat farm country and...