saunders, d

===

4 24

debra J. Saunders is the Washington columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. She returned to the Review-Journal in January 2024 after serving as the newspaper's White House correspondent during former President Donald J. Trump's term and in the early weeks of President Joe Biden's administration.

Her podcast, "Covering Trump: War Stories from the White House Press Corps," laid out the experience in six episodes. Her column is syndicated by Creators Syndicate and is carried by newspapers in the United States. Saunders served as a fellow with the Discovery Institute's Chapman Center for Citizen Leadership from 2021 through 2023.

Biography

Saunders graduated in 1980 from the University of Massachusetts at Boston. She majored in Greek and Latin.^[1]

In 1992, she became an opinion-page columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, also syndicated by Creators. She later augmented her thrice-weekly columns with the Token Conservative blog,^[2] before leaving the paper in 2016.

Between 1987 and 1992, Saunders was a columnist and editorial writer for the Los Angeles Daily News. She previously worked for conservative advocacy groups and for a Republican leader of the California State Assembly.

In addition to her columns, Saunders has written for The Wall Street Journal and The Weekly Standard. She is the author of one book, The World According to Gore (ISBN 1-893554-14-7).

blurb 2000

The man who would be President, Al Gore, claims he invented the internet. He also claims that he and Tipper inspired Love Story. And he says that after his sister died of lung cancer he promised to fight smoking "until his last breath," although he continued to cash checks from the family tobacco holdings for years after. In The World According to Gore, nationally syndicated columnist Debra Saunders goes in search of this man who seems always looking for the truth about himself. Saunders concentrates on the ideas, which Gore has tinkered with throughout his career in an attempt to build a worldview.

"Whether posing as the eco-guru battling 'consumptionism'," she writes, "or the social theorist with a 'Livability Agenda' calling for federally sanctioned communities, or attacking the automobile as the scourge of civilization, or proposing universal pre-school, Al Gore is, for all his supposed woodenness, a unique figure on our political scene. Fascinating and funny, this search for Al Gore deconstructs his carefully constructed image with wisdom and insight. Illustrated with family and political photographs.

Saunders is married to Wesley J. Smith.^[3]

cpan trump covid ?progid=550489

DebraSaunders

Views

brochure flag]

In 2006, Saunders wrote articles opposing the War on Drugs.^[4][5] She campaigned in her column for President Bush to issue more pardons and sentence commutations.

Saunders voted against Proposition 22 in 2000.^[6] In 2004, Saunders wrote in support of same-sex marriage.^[7] She was critical of the California Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriage.^[6]

In 2007, she wrote an article that criticized the imprisoned freelance journalist Josh Wolf, although she opposed his imprisonment.^[8]

In 2007, Saunders described herself as a climate change skeptic.^[9]

In 2011, she wrote about the comic character Foreskin Man, which was being used to promote a ballot initiative to ban circumcision in San Francisco.^[10]

References

^ "About Debra J. Saunders | Creators Syndicate". www.creators.com.
^ April 4, Debra J. Saunders on; PM, 2013 at 1:24 (April 4, 2013). "Foreskin Man goes to Turkey". Debra J. Saunders.
^ "500,000 Californians Lose Health Policies". National Review. October 25, 2013.
^ Pardon more than the turkey Archived 2006-11-27 at the Wayback Machine Debra Saunders, Nov. 23, 2006
^ Your Tax dollars on Drugs Archived 2011-06-11 at the Wayback Machine Debra Saunders, Feb. 12, 2006
^ Jump up to:^a ^b(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debra_Saunders#cite_ref-same_6-1) City Hall of Love Debra Saunders, May 16, 2008
^ The homophobic party? Archived 2010-01-28 at the Wayback Machine Debra Saunders, Nov. 10, 2004
^ Josh Wolf - Blogger - Has No Press Pass Archived 2007-03-02 at the Wayback Machine Debra Saunders, Feb. 27, 2007
^ Polar bear pandering Debra Saunders, Nov. 4, 2007

===

Polar bear pandering

By {} {Debra J. Saunders}

Nov 4, 2007

Sen. Barbara Boxer of California delivered a speech in the Senate last week in which she linked global warming to the San Diego wildfires, Darfur, the imminent loss of the world's polar bears and even a poor 14-year-old boy who died from "an infection caused after swimming in Lake Havasu," because its water is warmer. Forget arson. Forget genocide. Forget nature. There is no tragedy that cannot be placed at the doorstep of global-warming skeptics.

Oh, and there's no need to acknowledge that the regulations or taxes necessary to curb emissions by a substantial degree might damage economic growth.

According to Boxer, laws to curb greenhouse gases - this country would have to cut its greenhouse gas emissions in half over 12 years to meet the latest international community goals - will do good things for the American economy and create lots of jobs. It's Nostradamus Science wedded to Santa Claus economics.

It is rhetoric such as Boxer's - an odd combination of the-end-is-near hysteria and overly rosy economic scenarios - that keep me in the agnostic/skeptic global-warming camp.

Boxer and Sen. James Inhofe, the ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee that Boxer chairs, have been engaging in a running debate on global warming.

Last month, Inhofe took on the Al Gore suggestion that polar bears are in peril because of global warming. Inhofe pointed to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services estimates that show the polar bear population at about 20,000 to 25,000 bears - up from the estimated 5,000 to 10,000 polar bears in the 1950s and 1960s.

Boxer rejected Inhofe's claim that there are more polar bears, selectively citing the "best-studied population" of Canada's western Hudson Bay that found a 22 percent reduction of polar bears from 1987 to 2004. Then she referred to a World Conservation Union prediction that the polar bear population will drop by 30 percent by 2050. Global warming is supposed to be about science, yet projections now stand as fact.

Bjorn Lomborg addressed the polar bear scare in his book, "Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming." Of the 13 polar bear populations in Canada, the populations of 11 are stable or growing. The biggest cause of polar-bear deaths: hunters, who shoot an average of 49 polar bears in western Hudson Bay yearly.

By the way, Lomborg, a Danish professor of statistics, believes "global warming is real and man-made."

I note this because, to the global-warming crowd, it is more important that you believe in global warming than that you curb your emissions. Which doesn't make a lot of sense. If you believe their doomsday predictions, you would think they'd care more about results.

Instead, the true believers laud Our Betters in Europe for signing the 1997 Kyoto global warming pact, while ignoring the fact that only two Western European countries (Sweden and the United Kingdom) are on track to meet their Kyoto goals. They laud former President Bill Clinton because he said he supported Kyoto and they bash President Bush because he rejected it. They don't care that Clinton never asked the Senate to ratify the treaty. Or that under Clinton, greenhouse gas emissions rose, contrary to the Kyoto goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012.

Ten years ago, Boxer was one of 95 senators who voted in favor of a resolution that directed the Clinton administration not to sign onto any global warming treaty that exempted developing nations, or "would result in serious harm to the economy of the United States." Yet that is what Kyoto did.

Boxer was right, then. Kyoto would have damaged the U.S. economy without curbing greenhouse gases to the extent activists say is needed.

Today, Democrats have abandoned all reason. They buy the worst-case scenarios and sell snake-oil economics. The air of unreality pervades the debate. It doesn't matter what you spew if you say you believe in global warming. You don't have to sacrifice. Fighting global warming will be easy and good for the economy. This isn't science. It's fantasy.

Nov 4, 2007

{} {Debra J. Saunders}

^ Circumcision ballot measure and anti-Semitism Debra Saunders, June 2, 2011

External links

Categories:

Debra J. Saunders is a nationally syndicated conservative U.S. columnist and global warming doubterwhose early career included employment at two Republican political advocacy firms. She has written for the San Francisco Chronicle since 1992 and her column has been published in a range of other mainstream publications and conservative websites.

[hide]

Bio

Debra Saunders is married to Wesley J. Smith, a Senior Fellow (or "senior fellow on animal-rights issues"^[1]) at the Discovery Institute (D.I.)^[2], a think tank and conservative political, policy, economic, religious and industry lobbying organization best known as the driving force behind the Intelligent design movement.

According to GOPUSA.com, Saunders graduated magna cum laude from the University of Massachusetts in 1980 with a BA in Greek and Latin.^[3]

She was employed as a writer, researcher and account executive for Sacramento Republican political advocacy firm Russo Watts & Rollinsbetween 1985-1986^[4], and Todd Domke Associates, a Republican consulting firm in Boston^[3]. She participated in U.S. senate and congressional races elections with both firms. She also worked for the Republican leader of the California assembly.^[3] She was a columnist with the Los Angeles Daily News between 1988 and 1992.^[4]

Animal rights

The SourceWatch page Debra Saunders/Animal rights documents attacks on animal rights activism that Saunders - whose husband is "a senior fellow on animal-rights issues" at the Discovery Institute^[5] - has made in her column.

Saunders' columns addressing issues which overlap with the Discovery Institute's agenda have sometimes^[6] - but not always ^[7], ^[8] - disclosed her relationship with Smith and his role with D.I.

Articles & sources

SourceWatch articles

===

Wesley J. Smith (born 1949) is an American lawyer and author, a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism, a politically conservative, non-profit think tank. He is also a consultant for the Patients Rights Council.^[1] Smith is known for his criticism of animal rights, environmentalism, assisted suicide and utilitarian bioethics. He is also the host of the Humanize podcast.

Smith has authored or co-authored fourteen books. He formerly collaborated with consumer advocate Ralph Nader, and has been published in regional and national outlets such as The New York Times,^[2] Newsweek,^[3] The Wall Street Journal,^[4] USA Today,^[5] the San Francisco Chronicle,^[6] The Seattle Times,^[7] the New York Post,^[8] and others.^[9] He is also well known for his blog, "Human Exceptionalism", hosted by National Review, which advances his theory of "human exceptionalism" and defends intrinsic human dignity. He is a critic of those he labels "mainstream" bioethicists such as Peter Singer,^[10] Julian Savulescu,^[11] Jacob M. Appel,^[12] and R. Alta Charo.^[13] He has also been highly critical of science writer Matt Ridley.^[14]

Biography[edit]

Smith practiced law in the San Fernando Valley from 1976–1985, at which time he left law practice to pursue other interests, particularly as a public policy advocate. His first book in 1987 was The Lawyer Book: A Nuts and Bolts Guide to Client Survival, introduced by consumer advocate Ralph Nader beginning a collaboration between the two men. Smith is a prolific author and a frequent contributor to National Review^[15] and The Weekly Standard.^[16] He closely followed the Terri Schiavo case in 2005, and wrote frequently on the topic.^[17]

He opposes policies allowing for assisted suicide, euthanasia, human cloning, and granting human style "rights" to animals," making a clear distinction between animal rights and animal welfare. He is also a noted critic of mainstream views in bioethics, human cloning research, radical environmentalism and of what he calls the radical animal liberation movement,^[18] which he worries exhibits "anti-humanism".^[19] His book Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America was named Best Health Book of the Year at the 2001 Independent Publishers Book Awards.^[20]

Smith's 2010 book A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy is an anti-animal rights work which defends factory farming and human exceptionalism.^[21] Smith is one of the world's foremost apologists of "human exceptionalism," which he defends from a secular perspective.

Smith is a frequent guest on radio and television talk shows, having appeared on national programs such as Good Morning America and Nightline, as well as internationally on BBC Radio 4. He has testified as an expert witness in front of federal and state legislative committees,^[22] and is an international public speaker, appearing throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and many countries in Europe.

Smith is married to the syndicated Las Vegas Review-Journal White House correspondent Debra J. Saunders.

Criticism[edit]

In a 2001 essay, physician Matthew K. Wynia and attorney Arthur Derse accused Smith of selectively using evidence to create a false impression that bioethics is a monolithic field.^[23] They argued that Smith was "prepared to bend the truth to make a point, turn a stomach, and potentially radicalize a reader."^[23] Smith rebutted these criticisms, stating in part, "Wynia and Derse assert that I claim bioethics is a monolith. That is not what I write. What I do believe is that bioethics has, generally, crystallized into an orthodoxy, perhaps even an ideology. I acknowledge that disagreements certainly exist within the field. But I view them, with some exceptions, as the arguing of people who agree on fundamentals but disagree on details—sort of like Catholics bickering with Baptists."^[24]

Sociologist John Sorenson has negatively reviewed Smith's book A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy as a "misleading, bad-faith compendium of anti-animal rights propaganda, based on a single idea: human exceptionalism".^[21] Sorenson criticized Smith for ignoring the negative environmental effects of factory farming including habitat destruction and loss of biodiversity from deforestation.^[21] Philosopher Angus Taylor noted that Smith has "little familiarity with the large range of literature on the moral status of animals".^[25]

Bibliography[edit]

The Lawyer Book: A Nuts and Bolts Guide to Client Survival Price Stern Sloan Publishers, 1987, ISBN 0-8431-1569-6
The Doctor Book: A Nuts and Bolts Guide to Patient Power Price Stern Sloan Publishers, 1988, ISBN 0-89586-747-8
The Senior Citizen's Handbook: A Nuts and Bolts Guide to More Comfortable Living Price Stern Sloan Publishers, 1989, ISBN 0-89586-795-8
Winning the Insurance Game (1990) Ralph Nader and Wesley J. Smith, ISBN 1-877961-17-5
The Frugal Shopper (1991) Ralph Nader and Wesley J. Smith, ISBN 0-936758-30-9
Collision Course: The Truth About Airline Safety (1993) Ralph Nader and Wesley J. Smith, ISBN 0-8306-4271-4
No Contest: Corporate Lawyers and the Perversion of Justice in America (1996) Random House, Ralph Nader and Wesley J. Smith, ISBN 0-679-42972-7
Forced Exit: The Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder (1997), ISBN 0-8129-2790-7
Forced Exit: Euthanasia, Assisted Suicide, and the New Duty to Die (2006) Encounter Books, ISBN 1-59403-119-3
Culture of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America (2001), Encounter Books, ISBN 1-893554-06-6
Power Over Pain, Eric M. Chevlen, MD and Wesley J. Smith, 2002, ISBN 0-9710946-0-8
Consumer’s Guide to a Brave New World (2005), Encounter Books, ISBN 1-893554-99-6
A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement (2010) Encounter Books, ISBN 978-1-59403-346-9
The War on Humans (2014)
Culture of Death: The Age of "Do Harm" Medicine (2016) ISBN 978-1594038556

References

teacher hit 4 24

Reclaim Oklahoma Parent Empowerment

Jerry Stephenson

State Director at Black Alliance for Educational Options

http://68.77.48.18/RandD/Charter%20Schools/Packet/03%20Charter%20Advocacy%20Organizations.pdf

wbishop@calstatela.edu

Debra J. Saunders

Photo of Debra J. Saunders

Debra J. Saunders

OPINION COLUMNIST

Debra J. Saunders became a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle in 1992. Her column runs three times weekly.

academic questions

https://nonpartisaneducation.org/RaimiMemorial.htm

Before joining The Chronicle, she worked as a columnist and editorial writer for the Los Angeles Daily News for five years. Debra's column is syndicated through Creators Syndicate and runs in newspapers throughout the country.

In addition to writing her column, she has written pieces that have appeared in the Wall Street Journal

, Weekly Standard and National Review. She has appeared on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. Her book, "The World According to Gore," published by Encounter Books, was released in 2000.

Debra's political experience includes stints working as a writer/researcher and account executive for Russo Watts & Rollins in Sacramento and Todd Domke Associates in Boston. With both organizations, her political work included research, issues strategy and advertising in U.S. Senate and House races. In addition, she also worked for the Republican leader of the California Assembly.

She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Massachusetts at Boston with a B.A. in Greek and Latin in 1980.

===

Wayne Bishop is a Professor of Mathematics Emeritus, Cal. State University, LA, e-mail: wbishop@calstatela.edu

Paul Clopton, VAMP, San Diego charter BS: https://edreform.com/ https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/center-for-education-reform/

R. James Milgram is a Professor of Mathematics E

===

Leadership

Casey Seiler

Editor & Vice President, Times Union

George R. Hearst III

President & Publisher, Times Union

debra J. Saunders became a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle in 1992. Her column runs three times weekly.

In addition to writing her column, she has written pieces that have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Weekly Standard and National Review. She has appeared on CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. Her book, "The World According to Gore," published by Encounter Books, was released in 2000.

She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Massachusetts at Boston with a B.A. in Greek and Latin in 1980.