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Zazi Case Reignites Terrorist Trials Debate
Tweet Share on Facebook February 23, 2010 Comment (2)By Robert Schlesinger, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
Score another one for the side of law and order in the fight against terrorists. The U.S. justice system worked properly in the case of Afghan immigrant Najibullah Zazi, who pled guilty Monday to terrorism charges in a plot to bomb New York City subways. Not surprisingly, the decision has gotten a lot of attention among liberals who point to it as more evidence that having a military component to the battle against terrorists doesn't obviate the other facets of the struggle, including the criminal justice side of it. Zazi isn't a soldier, captured behind enemy lines, in other words, he's a would be mass murderer.
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Tiger Woods' Unnecessary Apology
Tweet Share on Facebook February 18, 2010 Comment (43)By Robert Schlesinger, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
Tiger Woods doesn't owe me an apology. And, excepting the unlikely possibility that you have "Woods" or "Nordegren" in your name, he doesn't owe you one either. (And judging by what the sports radio experts say, he probably doesn't think he owes us one either.) But at 11am Friday an apology is what we're going to get, in a televisual press release that will no doubt get presidential break-into-our-regular-programming treatment. And given that, just about the only thing he owes us is to show new found self-discipline and keep himself from going the full Mark Sanford.
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Sarah Palin Sends Out Fundraising Appeal With Grammatical Error
Tweet Share on Facebook February 9, 2010 Comment (96)By Robert Schlesinger, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
Sarah Palin's official PAC has pulled in more than $2.1 million this election cycle and spent $1.2 million (almost none of it on federal candidates for office, of which more in a moment), so you'd think she could afford to hire someone who can write her fundraising letters in grammatically correct English. Or at least she could get a competent proofreader. Apparently not: Here, in part, is an E-mailed fundraising appeal from the former Alaska governor on behalf of Sarah PAC (emphasis mine):
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Palin Denounces Limbaugh Over 'Retard' Cracks, Glenn Beck Next?
Tweet Share on Facebook February 4, 2010 Comment (51)By Robert Schlesinger, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
The collateral damage from Sarah Palin's broadside against Rahm Emanuel for his "retard" comments keeps spreading. Her spokeswoman today flamed Rush Limbaugh (even after Limbaugh said Palin would know better) and the former Alaska governor also blasted a top aide to Texas Gov. Rick Perry, for whom Palin will soon be campaigning.
Now comes an audio clip of Palin ally Glenn Beck having a laugh about paintings of "retarded children."
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Palin vs. Limbaugh Over 'Retard' Comment?
Tweet Share on Facebook February 3, 2010 Comment (88)By Robert Schlesinger, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
Sarah Palin took umbrage recently with White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel for remarks he made, privately, to the effect that querulous Democrats were "f*****g retarded" for planning to run attack ads against centrist Democratic lawmakers. As the mother of special needs child, condemned Emanuel and demanded his resignation, prompting bloleague Jack Farrell to wonder why the conservative icon was suddenly embracing political correctness. Apparently Jack's not the only one. Rush Limbaugh, also came to Rahm's defense, in his own way, castigating "our political correct society" for "acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards." (More after the jump.)
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Study Shows Abstinence Sex Education Works, But Not Well Enough
Tweet Share on Facebook February 2, 2010 Comment (20)By Robert Schlesinger, Thomas Jefferson Street blog
A new, federally-funded study brings striking evidence that abstinence-only education might actually work. Today's Washington Post gives the study front page play, and abstinence advocates are crowing that they've been proven correct. But there are a few problems with their "victory", most notably that while the findings are noteworthy and important, they miss the point. Since abstinence-only education--unlike abstinence itself--is not 100 percent effective, it's not the best approach.
Here's the nut of the study, as reported by the Post:
