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Friday, March 24, 2006 12:00 AM

A portrait of the blogger as a young plagiarist

As a college student Ben Domenech lifted arts criticism; as a GOP henchman, he was accused of fabricating a Tim Russert quote. What was the Washington Post thinking?
By Joe Conason

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  • Friday, March 24, 2006 09:30 AM

    Home-schooling redux

    Sigh. I'll throw my 2 cents on the pile.

    I was home-schooled. I'm 28. I'm a "card-carrying" liberal. And I'm terribly disturbed that the right is co-opting "home-schooling" as a code for ultra-conservative fundamentalist Christians. People home-school for a variety of reasons; saying one was "home-schooled" does not serve as an accurate shorthand for what a person's background and beliefs are.

    Joe, please don't use the term as if it applies only to people of Ben Domenech's ilk. Please don't let the right take this phrase away from us too.

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