Abridged Daily News Columnists

John Baer: I really enjoyed this quote from George Pataki in Baer’s column today: “I don’t want a citizen of the world as our next president, I want an American patriot.”

Ronnie Polaneczky: In another episode of “the Daily News columnists not understanding correlation versus causation,” Ronnie Polaneczky thinks that Bristol Palin’s pregnancy proves abstinence-only education doesn’t work! (Not that abstinence-only sex ed works — it doesn’t — but I don’t really think that’s the issue; surely Polaneczky wouldn’t want to change from the current DARE formula of abstinence-only drug education — which also doesn’t work — would she?)

Then she quotes some blog comments from the New York Times, to make this column even better.

Fatmiah Ali: My favorite part of this column is how Langston Hughes is referred to as “Poet Langston Hughes.” Thanks for that identifier, I was going to be a little confused there otherwise.