This is an area that deserves targeted grant support.
Unsurprisingly, the internet rage machine quickly homed in on the deserving target.
Goodness knows that the authority makes for an easy, and often deserving, target.
Mob justice may have deserving targets but it is always crude and usually goes too far.
Studies have shown that state control over media can often divert outrage onto less significant or less deserving targets.
For the conservative of 1987, Allan Bloom's "The Closing of the American Mind" struck many deserving targets — rock music, sexual promiscuity, the sixties, Black Power, divorce, feminism.
On Friday, Mr. Hammond described Stratfor as a "deserving target," an organization engaged in "intrusive and possibly illegal surveillance activities on behalf of large multinational corporations".
The best number in the show, a Marlene Dietrich-like torch song sung by Mr. Feuer as Eva Braun, with the refrain, "Loving him is where I went wrong," works because it treats a deserving target with a kind of sympathy.
Even if it has failed to embrace plausible solutions, O.W.S. at least picked a deserving target — what National Review's Reihan Salam describes as the "moral rupture" created by Wall Street's and Washington's betrayal of the public trust.
Best known for his stand-up satire songs, Mr. Minchin delivers plenty of swipes at deserving targets, including parents who make their children their religion, in the opening number, "Miracle".
At one point, Feinstein asked a series of questions meant to make clear to the public that the only U.S. citizen intentionally killed in a drone strike was a deserving target.
