SOMETHING TO REFLECT ON. Simon Wiesenthal died in his sleep overnight.

Even after turning 90, Wiesenthal continued to remind and to warn. While appalled at atrocities committed by Serbs against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo in the 1990s, he said no one should confuse the tragedy there with the Holocaust.

"We are living in a time of the trivialization of the word 'Holocaust,'" he told AP in 1999. "What happened to the Jews cannot be compared with all the other crimes. Every Jew had a death sentence without a date."

Keep that in mind the next time somebody attempts to escalate the debate over the separation of national, state, and local powers by invoking fascism.