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...protégé) taught Breitbart a new way of seeing, it was another former employer, Arianna Huffington (who also refused to speak about the boss of Big), who whipped him into intellectual shape. Drudge introduced Breitbart to Huffington in the late 1990s, when she was a right-wing provocateur. He worked for her as a researcher. "I was a slacker," he says. "Writing, rhetoric, argument - she demanded that I take a disciplined approach." (See the 50 best websites...
...profound question for Republicans is whether they continue on the path of intransigence or decide to participate in the government. Intransigence has its pleasures. In the hermetically sealed tornado of right-wing bloviation, the wildest claims have come to seem the most marketable. This was a problem on the left for a long time. When Congressman Randy Neugebauer of Texas screamed "Baby killer!" on the House floor, the epithet resonated - the protesters who screamed those same words at U.S. troops in the 1960s sent the American pendulum swinging back toward conservatism and crippled the Democratic Party for several generations...
Bizarre Animals is certainly a unique event, but it looks as if it may not be the last of its kind. Wing credits much of the project’s success to the Museum of Natural History and its commitment to bringing all kinds of new, innovative programming to its patrons. Elisabeth Werby ’72, the Executive Director of the Museum of Natural History, expressed great excitement about these projects in an emailed statement...
Almost from the minute she stepped foot into the West Wing, Rogers began posing for magazines like Vogue and the Wall Street Journal magazine, antics one can hardly envision the dourer Zantzinger or Smoot emulating. An inside source told Politico that at one point, Rogers wondered why, as social secretary, she did not have her own driver. Eventually, David Axelrod had to warn Rogers to stop parading around in expensive clothes and talking up the “Obama brand” in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression...
...other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, the President and his team were waiting and working the phones to make sure the final votes were nailed down. There was also the distraction of March Madness to pass the hours. One aide said of Obama: "He's in the West Wing, getting updates, dropping in on staff, and like the rest of America, examining the rubble of his bracket." At one point during the afternoon, the Commander in Chief ordered his health care czar, Nancy-Ann DeParle, to take a break...