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Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Pillar Of Female Achievement? Really??
Austin Hill is a Talk Show Host for the Fox Newstalk Radio Network, and a frequent guest host for 630 WMAL / Washington D.C. and 1080 KRLD/Dallas. He is the author of "White House Confidential: The Little Book Of Weird Presidential History," and is a local columnist for Arizona's East Valley Tribune Newspaper. Be the first to read Austin Hill's column. Sign up today and receive Townhall.com delivered each morning to your inbox. .
On Native Ground
The Administration's reaction to this assessment was to downplay the report and try to come up with alternative ways of measuring progress. Congress will be told that violence is down in Iraq, even though the first six months of 2007 have been the deadliest for U.S. troops and the civil unrest that plagues most of Iraq has not abated. Congress will be told that it really isn't that big a deal that the Iraqi parliament can't agree on oil revenue sharing, holding provincial elections or de-Baathification of the government. Congress will be told that the Administration was unable to foresee that the benchmarks set for the Iraqi government would not be met - just like it couldn't foresee jetliners being flown into skyscrapers or that the levees in New Orleans would fail. Besides, those benchmarks were unrealistic, anyway.
December 2006 Archives
So, for your entertainment (and mine), let's make up some New Year's resolutions for the stars. "I'm going to try really, really, really, really hard to be genuinely happy for Ashlee. Even though she thinks she's better than I am, and she's way cuter than me now. And she's probably making more money than me, and Papa Joe likes her better." --Jessica Simpson "I will continue to take over my sister's identity." --Ashlee Simpson "I promise to buy those days of the week underwear y'all and wear them every single day. Pinky swear." --Britney "We're going to adopt at least gazillion more babies this year." --Brangelina "I won't have sex for a whole year... take two." --Paris "We are going to try to be much less creepy." --TomKat "I will not steal illegally obtain any small children this year." --Madonna "Annoying Meredith Grey no more.
A different class
He first picked up a guitar when he was a child and was proficient before his age hit double figures. By 14, he was touring Germany and Holland with his Uncle Chuck's rock'n'roll band. Their usual guitarist couldn't make it and Hawley's father, Dave, pushed Hawley Jnr forward. Hawley Snr, however, hadn't got the full story regarding the venues they would be playing."Chuck had told them we were playing theatres," says Hawley. "The first gig was a strip club in a Dutch steel town. The joint had a revolving stage with a curtain across the middle. We played behind the curtain while the girl took her kit off in front of all the dirty old men. Then the stage would revolve and we would play some rock'n'roll to these blokes who were ignoring us. After 15 minutes, the next girl would come on and the stage would revolve again.
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