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...Her career path from prosecutor to politician has been defined by many firsts: She was the nation’s first Indian American senator and California’s first female and South Asian attorney general. Harris is the first... ...she joined Alpha Kappa Alpha, the country’s oldest Black sorority, and earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics. She would later become the first HBCU graduate to be elected vice president. After college, Harris returned to California and attended law school at the University of California Hastings. When she decided to pursue a career as a prosecutor in the district attorney’s...

John McCain will be the subject of an upcoming biopic about his life and decades-long career in politics. Stampede Ventures has optioned rights to “The Luckiest Man: Life With John McCain,” a biography written by the late Arizona senator’s political adviser and friend Mark Salter, and plans to adapt it into a feature film. Salter is co-writing the script with television producer Craig Turk (“The Good Wife,” “FBI”). The film is being made with support from McCain’s family. His widow, Cindy McCain, will serve as an executive producer. “John’s story is one of incredible heroism, of serving causes greater than...

WORD FOR THE DAY In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of “Word for the Day”. (Hagiography) [phonetic] noun ha·gi·og·ra·phy \ ˌha-gē-ˈä-grə-fē , ˌhā- , -jē- \ (part of speech - Noun) Definition 1 : biography of saints or venerated persons 2 : idealizing or idolizing biography "an account that smacks of hagiography" First Known Use: 1821

First, hosannas to Barack Obama began appearing in the presidential biographies of his predecessors on the official White House website. Now, Heritage Foundation’s Amy Payne has discovered that the State Department has begun inserting hosannas to the boss in their new “Fact Sheets” of countries around the world. Is the Obama administration attempting to build a cult of personality, or just create the jobs necessary to clean up official government websites of his electioneering after January? Inserting himself into the biographies of past presidents on the White House website apparently wasn’t enough for President Obama. His State Department is now...

Hugh Hewitt: Pleased to welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. Governor, welcome back, good to have you. Mitt Romney : Thank you, good to be with you, Hugh. Hugh Hewitt: We’ve watched a lot of these free swim debates, including last night’s, Governor. When do we get a Rudy -Mitt-Fred debate that people will actually want to watch, as opposed to…we like the other people, don’t get me wrong, but it’s very disjointed, and the top tier guys would be a great presentation. Mitt Romney : You know, I’m beginning to pine away for...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - American director Oliver Stone and British producer John Daly plan to make a film about the 2002 coup that briefly brought down Venezuela's government, President Hugo Chavez said Sunday. Chavez said Stone and Daly plan to announce the upcoming film at the Cannes Film Festival in France. He added that the two called Venezuela Sunday morning to discuss their plans. "They've asked for our permission to announce it today in Cannes, and we've told them yes, that we're interested in that film being made," Chavez said during his weekly television and radio program.

If it's true that Bill Clinton is what Joe Klein (quoting George Santayana on William James) says he is, ''so extremely natural that there was no knowing what his nature was, or what came next'' -- and who wouldn't vote for that? -- then this book could hardly be the last word on our immediate ex-president. But Klein's new work stands as a solidly provisional overview of the prismatic Clinton presidency. The duality, triality, quadrality of Bill Clinton's nature and outlook should by now be a popular topic everywhere for focus groups trying to focus. He has been variously viewed...