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  • Extreme Makover: White House Edition (Obamas Hire Hollywood Designer to Redo Family Quarters)

    01/16/2009 10:07:34 AM PST · by lewisglad · 50 replies · 1,806+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | 1/16/09 | Dominique Browning
    Style watchers are buzzing about Michael Smith, the L.A. decorator to stars, models and fund managers, who is joining the Obamas in Washington to design the family quarters. He's a surprising pick, if only because he is associated with clients like Cindy Crawford and Steven Spielberg, for whom the concept of a budget is impressionistic at best. Michelle Obama's press office praised Mr. Smith's "family-focused and affordable approach," but I doubt even he can remember when he last accepted a $100,000 limit -- that's what is earmarked for the presidential family quarters -- unless that was the budget for window...
  • The Woman Behind The Room Behind Hillary Clinton

    02/01/2007 7:51:06 AM PST · by rabidralph · 115 replies · 2,477+ views
    The Washington Post ^ | Thursday, February 1, 2007; H01 | Jura Koncius
    Rosemarie Howe has been quietly decorating Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's house on Embassy Row in Washington since 2004. So when the designer heard speculation on National Public Radio that the video Clinton posted on her Web site announcing her candidacy for president had been filmed in her Chappaqua, N.Y., home, Howe knew that wasn't so. Then, when TV pundits and bloggers started buzzing that the cozy room with its soft colors, homey furnishings and floral needlepoint pillow was a staged Madison Avenue backdrop, the Georgetown designer decided it was time to break her silence. "It's not a stage set," Howe...
  • No scientific basis for 'born gay' theory. (DUH!)

    07/12/2006 2:07:22 PM PDT · by carlo3b · 223 replies · 4,636+ views
    The Salt Lake Tribune ^ | 07/08/2006 | David Clarke Pruden
    No scientific basis for 'born gay' theoryBy David Clarke PrudenAlthough the simple "born gay" theory has faded from the science scene, activists continue to misrepresent scientific findings. When you assert that individuals are born gay and cannot change, people naturally jump to the conclusion that same-sex marriage is the only rational choice for same-sex attracted individuals.    However, the innate-immutable theory of homosexuality has no basis in science. The simplistic biological theory has been dismissed by all of the researchers whose studies have been cited to support the notion that homosexuality is so deeply compelled by biology that it...