CNN reports that 'hate crimes' are on the rise in the United States. 'Hate crimes' are just like regular crimes, except that the bad guy really really didn't like his victim.

The overall total of 7,489 hate crime incidents reported in 2003 was slightly above the number reported in 2002.

And here's another one:

Police in Atlanta were called to a dormitory at Emory University and spent an hour investigating and taking photographs of dry erase boards on which someone had scribbled the word "gay," reports the Emory Wheel.

Of course most telling is that only about 16% of the law enforcement agencies reporting statistics to the FBI reported any so-called 'hate crimes'. So as more and more agencies start to report them, they can cry wolf that 'hate crimes' are increasing even more.