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...peak of impeachment. Rep. Bob Livingston, shortly after being elected to succeed the disgraced (and adulterous) Newt Gingrich, had to step down following the revelations of his own extramarital affair. At about the same time, the indiscretions of no fewer than three Republican House impeachment managers, Bob Barr, Dan Burton, and Henry Hyde, came to light in a document compiled by the sleazy, but hardly hypocritical, Larry Flynt...
...Relations Committee. And Bennett was recently invited by the Republican Club to speak at Harvard. The party never even considered cutting Arnold loose. It all comes back to a kind of bravado built into the collective psyche of the American right wing, something I like to call the Dan Burton Principle. You may know Dan Burton as a senior Republican Congressman from my state, Indiana. In the 1990s he announced on the floor of the House of Representatives his certainty that Vince Foster was murdered, based on a scientific reenactment which consisted of him firing a pistol into a large...
...afraid to knock some heads. The day after the election, Schwarzenegger and Democratic Senate Majority Leader John Burton had a nice phone call about working together, but, Burton told reporters later, the senator told Schwarzenegger he can?t repeal the car tax without the legislature?s approval. At his press conference later in the day, Schwarzenegger replied, ?We have a difference of opinion.? It will probably be the first of many with the legislature. Some Arnold will have to make compromises on, but sometimes he?ll have to draw the line. He is the Governor after...
...rather lazy little boy, Michael, who can't believe his good fortune in finding his homework miraculously done every night. Little Vampire and Michael soon meet and become friends, playing around with LV's pet, a pink, flying dog with an attitude named Hamzat. Much like Tim Burton's movie "The Nightmare Before Chistmas" Sfar's "Little Vampire" series turns creepy creatures into delightful characters. Sfar has a creative flare for the both the visualization of not-too-scary monsters and for smart stories that will surprise even older readers. At one point, while swearing an oath to protect...
After the team came back on stage in its new gear, Burton couldn’t resist bringing up just one more thing...