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Paul Cameron, originator of the statistic (publicized by virtue expert William Bennett) that gay males have an average life expectancy of 43 years, defends and explains his calculation in response to a Slate article by Walter Olson debunking it.
An article defends Chai Ling, who led the Tiananmen Square protests and now runs an American Internet start-up, from charges of selling out and, more gravely, of guiding the protests with naive extremism.
Coz criticizes the Gifford trap yet defends the similar way the Star , the Enquirer 's sister paper, treated Dick Morris.
The cover story defends pork-barrel spending.
He defends privacy without disparaging the gains of the past 30 years.