Mark Sanford Didn’t Cheat on You

By Jenn Q. Public

Clucking hens and crowing roosters, go back to your coops. Unless you’re Jenny Sanford, it’s time to forgo the unseemly impulse to tar and feather South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford for his marital infidelity.

Governor Sanford engaged in what might be the most vanilla extramarital affair in recent political history. His sexual liaison did not result in a federal probe, the payment of hush money, or any of the truly illicit scandals that have surfaced among politicians lately. Barring the disclosure that his girlfriend is actually an Argentine farm animal or underage hooker, the public has no business using Sanford’s affair to oust him from office.

Dave Letterman and the Culture of Liberal Entitlement

By: Jenn Q. Public
David Letterman feels entitled.
He’s entitled to spew crude, sexually degrading invective to portray a teenage girl as a sexual object.
Maybe you saw it on one of the highlight reels, one awkward moment for Sarah Palin at the Yankee game. During the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez.
The hardest [...]

ObamaCare: More of the Same Sicko Ideas

When Barack Obama convened a White House forum on health care reform last month, there was one ground rule: check fresh ideas at the door.

Will Health Care Reform Spawn the Next Great Culture War in America?

When I turn 35 I will have my first mammogram.
In the United States, mammography is recommended for breast cancer screening every one to two years beginning at age 40.  The best available evidence suggests that mammography screening among women aged 40 to 74 reduces breast cancer mortality.
But due to a few minor risk factors, three [...]

Choice For Me, But Not For Thee

The following article by Jenn Q. Public originally appeared on JennQPublic.com.
Health care provider conscience laws began to appear on the federal books shortly after the United States Supreme Court decided Roe v Wade in 1973.  These statutory provisions protect health care professionals from discrimination if they refuse to participate in abortion and sterilization services on [...]

Lies, Damned Lies, and Military Sexual Assault Statistics

By Jenn Q. Public
Statistics inspire confidence and can lend an air of legitimacy to anecdotal evidence. But as the saying goes, torture the numbers and they’ll confess to anything.
Torturing the numbers is something Columbia University journalism professor Helen Benedict knows a little something about.  She’s got the military sexual assault data on the rack and [...]

Misogyny, Lies, and the Carrie Prejean Nude Photo Scandal

By Jenn Q. Public,  originally published on JennQPublic.com.

Miss California pageant winner Carrie Prejean is gorgeous, opinionated, passionate, and conservative.
It’s that last quality that really sticks in the craws of her liberal detractors.
And so, they set out to destroy her.  Belittling her for her views on marriage didn’t work.  Calling her filthy names didn’t do the [...]

Simplified Tax Code, Obama Edition

This article by Jenn Q. Public originally appeared on JennQPublic.com.
Between covering breaking news of the First Pup’s television debut and yukking it up on prime time with juvenile teabag jokes, media personalities have been absolutely swamped this month.  Undoubtedly the talking heads would have found an angle that combined the two stories had Bo Obama [...]

Liberals, Libraries, and Child Pornography

The following article by Jenn Q. Public originally appeared as a guest post on Red Alerts.
It’s a no-brainer. You see someone looking at child porn, you call the cops, right?
Not if you want to keep your job at the Lindsay branch of the Tulare County Library system in California.
When library assistant Brenda Biesterfeld saw 39-year-old [...]

Help Wanted: Grammar Czar

Is it our infallible president or the overly rigid rules of modern English that require correction?