Word: winging
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Clinton didn't know the details but told Opperman he would have his counselor Mack McLarty look into it. McLarty, who had had business dealings with Opperman, met with him and White House lawyer Steve Neuwirth in his West Wing office. The object, says White House special counsel Lanny Davis, was to "determine what if any response the White House might have" to Opperman's concern. At McLarty's direction, Neuwirth made inquiries at Justice, and learned of a complicating issue. The department's Antitrust Division was investigating the online service industry West dominated for alleged monopolistic practices. The White...
Laura Ingraham, the CBS and MSNBC analyst, is as hard as a diamond. Her killer views against gays, feminists, gun-control advocates and welfare stand out even in that booming segment of the instant-pundit industry: right-wing women commentators. That's why her recent essay in the Washington Post apologizing for her rabid intolerance of gays dropped like a bombshell. Notorious in her student days for vilifying "sodomites" in the Dartmouth Review--and for sending a reporter to tape a Gay Students Association meeting, then naming names--she wrote that she changed her views after witnessing "the dignity, fidelity...
However, LaFollette suggested that in response to such blatant activist bashing, environmentalists should turn the tables on right wing politicians...
DIED. EUGENIE ANDERSON, 87, first female U.S. ambassador; in Red Wing, Minnesota. Trained as a concert pianist, Anderson plunged into politics in Minnesota and was an organizer of the state's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. Truman named her ambassador to Denmark in 1949, where she rode a bicycle, as most Danes did. In the '60s she headed the legation in Bulgaria where she openly defied the secret police...
...then asked, "So does this mean that'll look bad if I run for chair?" and signed the post "The Right Wing." This is not evidence of any sort of conservative plot; Hyman's claim to the contrary shows him to be either humor-impaired or disingenuous...