Last year Paul Chesser’s work was picked up by national publications on several occasions, and he’s already achieved that mark in 2005. On Monday, the web site of The Weekly Standard published his commentary about California Rep. Henry Waxman’s assault on President Bush’s sex-education policy, which supports abstinence-only programs. Waxman issued a report about mistakes in abstinence-only textbooks. The mistakes were indeed mistakes, Chesser wrote, but Waxman failed to mention there are also mistakes in other texts, including a science book that says the equator passes through the southern U.S. That same day, the weblog Family Scholars included commentary about, and an excerpt from, Chesser’s piece. Then on Tuesday, an excerpt focusing on Waxman’s partisanship appeared in the “Inside Politics” column of The Washington Times.
