more on the move to california…
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http://newsmax.com/insidecover/grenell_resigns_un/2008/09/17/131871.html U.N. Spokesman Richard Grenell Resigns Wednesday, September 17, 2008 6:14 PM By: Stewart Stogel Richard Grenell, the longtime communications director and de facto press secretary for four U.S. ambassadors to the United Nations, tells Newsmax he will conclude his eight-year U.N. term Sept. 29. Grenell plans to return to his California home to become a senior vice president and communications director at DaVita, a healthcare company based in El Segundo. But Newsmax also has learned that Grenell is on a short list for consideration as the next State Department spokesman if Sen. John McCain is elected president in November….
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who doesn’t love camille paglia? below are some excerpts from her latest salon blog. …Conservative though she may be, I felt that Palin represented an explosion of a brand new style of muscular American feminism. At her startling debut on that day, she was combining male and female qualities in ways that I have never seen before. And she was somehow able to seem simultaneously reassuringly traditional and gung-ho futurist. In terms of redefining the persona for female authority and leadership, Palin has made the biggest step forward in feminism since Madonna channeled the dominatrix persona of high-glam Marlene Dietrich…
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within the first few minutes of palin’s speech my phone started to light up with text messages. i could instantly tell that my liberal friends (and there are many) were nervous. palin the future president and next vice-presient of the united states had something to say. the messages started with simple admitions like “she’s doing well”. as the humored filled speech unfolded my text messages increased. “she’s doing well” became “wow”. the evening ended with scared muses and hostile phrases like “we still have 2 more months” and “but how many hockey moms could there actually be in america”. the…
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i can’t keep up with the facebook messages, text mesages and emails that i keep receiving from my liberal friends. their messages aren’t the typical partisan banter that i usually get….their screaming and indignation has reached a level that i haven’t seen in my lifetime. my journalists friends have also reached a new high with their inability to keep their outrage from showing. i’ve exchanged phone calls or emails over the last 24 hours with reporters from cnn, abc, cbs, ap, the new york times, the la times, the washington post, politico and several bloggers and in every instance the…
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