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I hadn’t heard of Winsome Sears until she appeared to acknowledge victory in her race for Virginia lieutenant governor on the evening of November 2. My immediate reaction was that a star is born. Of the politicians who spoke that night, she said what I most wanted to hear. Yesterday she appeared for a segment on CNN’s State of the Union with Dana Bash. Bash went in search of a cudgel with which to bash Sears and somehow landed on vaccines (see CNN story here). Neither our nor CNN’s State of the Union is good. However, I stand by my...

Letters to the Editor Published July 14, 2005 Re: Teacher accused of bias, July 7 Times(Note:Read this link first): If we wonder why our schools are losing qualified teachers, look no further than this article. As if low pay is not enough, teachers also are subjected to one-sided reporting of unsubstantiated allegations. Who would want to be a teacher if your name and reputation can be sullied so easily in the court of public opinion? Deborah St. John has been teaching for 20 years. She is a well-respected and passionate teacher. She goes well beyond the call of duty to...

Editorial Board AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN Tuesday, January 20, 2004 President Bush should explain the yawning gap between what he said, before the U.S. invasion of Iraq about its capability for using weapons of mass destruction, and what has proved the reality -- virtually none. Nine months after the president declared major military operations in Iraq over, U.S. inspection teams have yet to find any substantive evidence that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction or even had a serious research and development program for such weapons. There are two important questions: How much did the CIA and other U.S. intelligence gatherers actually...