Syndicated columnist Mona Charen is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Institute and a contributor to National Review Online. She is the author of Do-Gooders: How Liberals Hurt Those They Claim to Help (and the Rest of Us). Author of Sex Matters.
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