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Spitzer has failed our daughters - and sons

How ironic that the prostitution ring that brought down the governor of the Empire State was called the Emperor's Club. Maybe the name appealed to Gov. Eliot Spitzer's famously regal ego.

What's not ironic, or at all funny, is how through poor judgment, sexual compulsion or simple arrogance, Spitzer abdicated not just his leadership of New York's civic life but also his role in the realm of...

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